#interactive television

Following up on my previous dive into the satirical news space with the BINI Patrol concept, I started thinking about the daytime and late-night talk show landscapes. The traditional couch-and-desk setup feels incredibly tired. Audiences crave authenticity, intimacy, and a break from heavily scripted PR tours. This led me to a new concept that blends the communal energy of daytime panels like…

From this day in 1986, a special edition of the Oprah Winfrey Show.

Viewers hear a précis of the evidence in a court case - a somewhat grisly murder trial.

Did the accused do it, or was he dreaming about it? You decide! Call the premium-rate number to cast your vote, and find out at the end of the live broadcast.

LG Electronics on Tuesday said it will expand its streaming service on smart TVs as the tech giant tries to increase its presence amid the pandemic-driven stay-at-home trend.

The South Korean company said LG Channels will be launched in an additional 11 European countries, including Switzerland and the Netherlands, within this year.

LG Channels, LG's free content streaming service set up in 2015, is currently available in 14 countries providing some 1,600 channels, but that will be expanded to 25 countries with 1,900 channels, it added. In South Korea, users can watch 144 channels for free.

#Joe_Dever’s ‘Lone Wolf’ @Gamebooks Set For Series Adaptation

The U.K.’s ChorMedia and Holmgard Ltd are adapting Joe Dever’s popular fantasy-adventure gamebook series “Lone Wolf” as a live-action interactive series.

Set in the fictional world of Magnamund, the series follows the adventures of Lone Wolf — the last surviving member of the Order of the Kai, an ancient caste of warrior monks who have mastered various natural and supernatural abilities.

The…

QUBE: The Story of a Revolutionary Experimental Station - The story of a network that paved the way for television as it would later become, years before it happened!

We’re wrapping up subscription and pay-cable television month with the story of an experimental network that paved the way for television as it would come to be known years later: pay-per-view, interactivity, and special interest.

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Bandersnatch Eliminates Line Between TV and Gaming

The thing about Black Mirror: Bandersnatch is that it’s easy to get caught up trying to classify it as either game or TV show. God knows I’ve seen visual novels with fewer choices and variety in endings, but the point is that the difference between the two media doesn’t matter here. We’ve finally reached the point where the distinction can be irrelevant, thanks to leveraging the streaming tech of Netflix to create a seamless experience. 

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Was Cleaning Out Some Old Stuff, and Look What I Found! #CaptainPower

“First my Striker terminal, then this, this little slap at my industrial complex. You’re a flea, Jonathan Power, and I’m going to swat you!”

I played this in a VCR, and I have no equipment to capture images from it except by photographing the screen, so please excuse the picture quality.

Anyway, I absolutely love Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future, an ill-fated children’s television…

The Virtual World Television (VWTV) project came to an end when Pooky Amsterdam and I published this article with Participations: http://www.participations.org/Volume%2014/Issue%201/5.pdf

In this article, I outline my thoughts on interactive television as consisting of three types of interactivity:

Access interactivity: controlling what to watch, when, where and how

Social interactivity:…