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Buzz Builds for Boardwalk Empire
Bloggers are buzzing about the super-anticipated new HBO show, Boardwalk Empire, which premieres September 19. With the show, the Daily Beast says, "HBO has a chance to launch a series that will lure audiences still missing The Sopranos and The Wire." "This show is just a checklist for awesome. Steve Buscemi stars as a big wig in Atlantic City during the Prohibition era. Martin Scorsese directed the pilot episode and will be involved in the creative process. Terrence Winter, the Emmy-award winning writer of The Sopranos, writes and produces," says mancouch. TV By the Numbers tries to figure out just how expensive the pilot was to produce: $18 million? Closer to $30 million? "We sure hope it will fill the hole in our heart and our Sunday night schedule after the season finale of True Blood," says Jet Set Girls, noting also that Atlantic City is running a bunch of hotel and food promotions with HBO surrounding the show. "HBO is hoping that audiences will tune in for its combination of Mad Men and The Sopranos, while the real Atlantic City bets on increased tourism," says Jaunted. "There is, however, a big problem...
Best in Blogs: Google Shows Off, Lady Gaga Wins Twitter Love Game, Best Viral Videos
After spending most of the summer hiding its huge muscles under loose-fitting shirts, Google has begun to flex. It The strutting began with a new video for the Arcade Fire song The Wilderness Downtown. The video, optimized for Google's Chrome browser, opens and closes multiple windows as the tune plays, and it does other tricks like showing video of your childhood home (using Google Street View). "Sounds awesome, right?" says Blogote. "I'm not ashamed to say that this was so beautiful it made me cry," says one commenter at Chris Rawlinson's blog. Groundswell is more clinical, calling it "a multi-modal, multi-browser, personalized music video that was built to showcase the HTML5 web standard." That's right, kids, HTML5, in case you're keeping score at home. But NewTeeVee says its computer ran it all buggy. "Maybe it makes me a bad Internet person for saying this -- but I was left unimpressed at the end." Dude, get more RAM.
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