Hold the Mayo

March 21, 2005

Is This A Good Thing, Or Not?

Lying in bed last night I caught an episode of one of the new Quincy remakes - Crossing Jordan. On the whole it was not bad. A bit more character driven and less science focused than the various versions of CSI but watchable. But then almost anything with Jill Hennessy is watchable.

During the show last night the character Nigel Townsend, a rather geeky fellow with an English accent, made mention of having a blog. He said that through comments an feedback on the blog they were about to solve the “Beacon Hill Murders.” And sure enough as they broke for commercial a voice-over suggested a visit to nigelblog.com.

So I went there. It's a blog written by a character in a television show. Its about the events of the show and the characters of the show. It is no doubt written by the writers of the show. The character blogs and the show promotes the blog.

Is this a good thing, or not?

Posted by: Stephen Macklin at 01:52 PM | Comments (3) | Add Comment

1 Um. Well, it's a new thing. Sort of a latter day Diary of Laura Palmer.

Posted by: Tuning Spork at March 21, 2005 04:01 PM (lq74+)

2 Id tune into show called " Hold the Mayo" ...
....... but then again my favorite thing on Letterman was the "Will it Float" segments and for some reason they cancelled them

Posted by: skinner at March 21, 2005 08:41 PM (/816A)

3 Well, I believe they're doing nothing wrong. I mean, it's their choice to promote the blog. We don't even know whether they have sort of an agreement to do that, like I'll promote the blog and you promote my show, stuff like that. It's no big deal at all. I know a show that promotes a pool store, only knowing that the lead actor is the owner of that store. It's more of just a business thing.

Posted by: Barbara Shade at May 24, 2010 10:30 PM (DCPJ7)

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