1-2-3 Hail TV News
Schedule of Programming
Wed Dec 21 21:33:10 -0600 2005
Although it is in the specifications for Fictionsuit to add more facility for automated indexing of projects, for the time-being it falls to me to look at the individual nodes themselves and create indices.
Here is a schedule of programming:
Monday
no regularly scheduled programming
suggestion of “After-School Specials”, 4pm
Tuesday
01:30am Toaster Brains (magazine, 30min), generally in syndication
08:00pm General Plan (reality, 60min)
09:00pm The End is Near (sci-fi, 60min)
Wednesday
08:00pm City Hall Live! (reality, live action, 120min)
Thursday
08:30pm When it Rains (comedy, 30min)
09:00pm Found (drama, 60min)
Friday
8:00pm Burning Rage of a Dying Planet (reality, 60 minutes
Saturday
01:30am Amazing Mike (comedy, 30min)
08:30am The Nut Nut Tootie Show (animated, 30min)
Sunday
05:00pm Fire Stunts America (special/documentary, 60min)
Leave me a note if there are any corrections or changes.
Fished out of comments
Wed Oct 26 00:51:00 -0500 2005
A couple of points:
- Yes, you may work ahead… just note the actual air date of the episode. General Plan has many examples.
- Yes, 1-2-3 Hail TV is a single network; once a timeslot is booked, it’s full.
To clarify
Fri Oct 14 06:47:00 -0500 2005
Your first page in 1-2-3 Hail TV should read like a verbose TV Guide entry, first listing the time, title, genre and length of the show in question. (The title of the page, as opposed to the show, should likely be in the format “Show Title – Episode n”, and no, that episode number doesn’t have to start at 1 or go in order. We just need the page titles to be different from one another.) Then give a paragraph or two’s description of this episode, from the point of view of the guide’s staff reviewer.
Note that once you choose a timeslot for your show, you are committed to it unless you negotiate otherwise. We’ll maintain a master schedule or other form of index. If you choose a weekly timeslot, your next episode/page should be up on the site by that time next week in your native time zone. If you choose a daily timeslot, you are cool, and good luck to you! If you miss a slot, maybe someone else will jump in with whatever you were pre-empted by. If you miss multiple timeslots, that show will be cancelled – you are welcome to start another.
Don’t worry too much about Special Features and Made-for-TV Movies just yet. We’ll determine them more once some feet are wet.
misubadiscuss the rules
Fri Oct 14 05:14:49 -0500 2005
Each player creates a television series (or more than one), and writes capsule reviews of the week’s episode. Choose a time-slot that is appropriate for the type of show (soap opera, cartoon, adventure, teen drama, medical, crime, et cetera), but also one that can be used as a deadline for us to expect your review by.
Perhaps some sort of competitive game will emerge to adjudicate the assignments of Special Feature Articles that highlight an actor or episode, but everyone will get a couple opportunities at that. (The mean idea of “if you are so ‘on time’ with your posts, how about writing an extra one this week” comes to mind.)
And if you have an idea for a “Made for TV Movie”, we could probably stand to have one of those once a week too (Saturday afternoon, Sunday evening). (This should probably be rotating among the players as well.)
TV Guide is our model for capsule reviews. Keep it tight, and informative, but in an advertising product sort of way.
Television is the window on the American living room.
ouroborosRSN
Mon Oct 10 22:30:55 -0500 2005
Presently off-air due to technical difficulties. We will run a cute graphic with a technician’s legs waving in the air as he wields a spanner righteously under the hood of a large out-modeled television camera for your amusement.
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