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Saying No to the $100 Million Bribe from Google

I wish I had more than a few dozen hours of video content. Maybe I’d get a sweet little offer from Google like the networks are getting. Courtesy of the ReelPopBlog.com, here’s a Business Week article about Google’s efforts to keep networks and programmers from suing YouTube/Google. Here’s the funny thing. It’s the end of…

Kidnapped by YouTube

I’m going to have difficulty keeping up with the blog posts this week because I’m “on the lamb.” As some of you might have seen, YouTube founders Steven Chen and Chad Hurley kidnapped me in their basement. I was able to escape. Now I’ve warned my wife, and I’m going to keep away from my…

NBC Considers Releasing Saturday Night Live Rehearsal Video… on Friday Via Web

Is NBC beginning to understand and embrace the vehicle it once squashed? It’s considering providing video moments of SNL rehearsals via the web. Brilliant. Says The Daily Reel: The very idea that rehearsals could be deemed as funny — or even funnier — than the actual production speaks not only to our changing predilection for…

Web-Only Video Comedy Spoofs Home Shopping Network

Home Purchasing Club is a new web-only video series by cast members of Saturday Night Live, The Groundlings, Napoleon Dynamite, The Drew Carey Show and Office Space. Spoofing ridiculous home shopping network segments, HPC just launched its first episode as part of VH1’s V-Spot player on and will premiere new episodes on the site every…