The Perfect Storm

Amazon is listing the street date for the S3 Official BSG Companion book for August 14, 2007.

This is pretty far away, but Farpoint organizers just announced James Callis will be their guest in February 2008. That’s near Baltimore, btw.

Wired's Epicenter blog uses BSG to argue that Mark Cuban's ideas about video content aren't totally correct. Adario is missing a couple of Cuban's points about the power of emotional connection for audiences experiencing a simultaneous broadcast. But his main argument is sound: internet delivery is changing the game now, and the networks and studios MUST deal with it. The Film & TV business is finally coming up against the exact same things that the Music biz had to face when audio downloading/sharing was perfected almost a decade ago.

Going back to BSG - Adario (and by extension Mark Pesce) support the argument that BSG may be a first, best example of game-changing corporate product, simply because of its seredipitous timing. Do the math: One excellent new show like BSG, plus the exactly perfect built-in geeked fanbase who could take to its immediate bittorrent distribution, plus UK airings (of season 1) proceeding airings in the rest of the English-speaking world. Equals? A perfect storm.