Why Won't I Link to The Tudors Sneak Peek on Sho.com
Why? In a minute. But first, watch this clip, embedded from YouTube.
But I won't link to the Showtime web site clip. You know why? Because they have the audacity to attached a pre-roll ad to something that is for all intense and purposes an ad.
And the other thing is that they are getting paid for that ad, which runs before an ad. And what was it that Les Moonves (my fellow VSCHS alum) said about revenue from the Internet?
He said (Forbes.com):
We want to share that revenue with our content creators--the writers are very important to us, as are the actors, the directors and the producers, and without them we wouldn't have our content. At the same time, we are trying to figure out what the world of new media will be--and hopefully we can come to some resolution with them that they will share in the pie. Right now, we don't know what that pie is, and there's been a lot of rhetoric from both sides and, as is normal with labor negotiations, it hasn't gone exactly smoothly.
They know enough about the pie to know how to stick an ad on everything that they put online, though. Sticking an ad on an ad to support the ad that the ad runs before is just rude. And that might be the single worst sentence I'm ever written in my life.
AMPTP, go back to the table and give the writers their deal. NOW!
Oh, and btw, The Tudors is back on January 27th, when they'll run season one again from the beginning, and the new season starts on Sunday March 30. My sis loves it. I'll try to get up to speed with it again, the last time I tried I failed miserably (but got some great sleep).
