4.30.2007

Must See TV - Minisodes!



Coming Online Soon: The Five-Minute ‘Charlie’s Angels’

Excerpt:

The question probably never occurred to viewers in the 1970s and 1980s, but suddenly it is highly relevant: exactly how much worthwhile entertainment content was there in shows like “Charlie’s Angels,” “T. J. Hooker,” and “Starsky and Hutch”?

The Sony Corporation and its production studio, Sony Pictures Television, which controls the rights to those and many other relics of a distant era of television, have come up with an answer to that question: three and a half to five minutes.

That’s the length Sony has shrunk episodes down to in order to create what the company hopes is an appealing new business in retooling old shows for a new era of entertainment. Sony even has a name for these shrunken slices of television nostalgia: minisodes.

Comment: I doubt that there is 3 1/2 minutes of worthwhile entertainment in the entire Charlie's Angels library! (I was there in the 70's!)

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