GlobalMedia: International Adaptations and the Fall 2014 U.S. Television Schedule

I was just doing some Internet searching for this fall's U.S. TV schedule and I noticed something.

Below are five of the new shows coming this fall.  The following program descriptions come from epguides.com.


Jane the Virgin (CW)
"A devout young Latina woman must decide what to do after her doctor's error causes her to be artificially inseminated. Based on the Venezuelan telenova Juana La Virgen."

Utopia (2014) (Fox)
"Contestants compete to create an ideal society over a year's time in an isolated location with no pre-determined rules. Based on the Dutch series."

Red Band Society (Fox)
"A group of teens form a community as a result of being long-term patients in the pediatric ward of a Los Angeles hospital. Based on the Spanish (Catalan) series Polseres Vermelles."




The Mysteries of Laura (NBC)
"A police officer balances her professional life as a homicide detective with her personal life as a single mother of twins. Based on the Spanish series Los Misterios de Laura."


Gracepoint (Fox)
"Detectives investigate the mysterious death of a young boy in a small beach town. Based on the UK series Broadchurch."


Of the 24 new prime-time shows from the major networks, at least five are international adaptations; three of which are on Fox.



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Fav New TED Vid: Culturomics - Quantitative Textual Analysis on a Large Scale

Culturomics: "the application of massive scale data collection and analysis to the study of human culture.'

Google Books Ngram Viewer - try some names or words.

Culturomics.org

See my bookmarks on culturomics and my culturomics stack including more video.


If you are interested in doing a research project using culturomics, let me know.






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@MythBusters and Penn & Teller #TellALie - Starting Tonight on @Discovery [VID]

MythBusters and Penn & Teller Tell a Lie - Starting Tonight on Discovery

It is good to see the promotion of the science and critical thinking on TV, plus a little magic mixed in.

Penn & Teller Tell A Lie : Discovery Channel

MassMedia: The Miracle Detectives on OWN TV [VID]

Miracle Detectives - CSI Expert Benjamin Radford - Oprah Winfrey Network

This show was just brought to my attention.  Now I want to see some episodes.  Anybody know where/when this is on?  I can't seem to find it on TV on Cox Hamptonroads.

More on the show.


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Portal: No Escape - Adaptation of Video Game to Short Film [VID]

I recently started playing Portal 2 on the Xbox. Since one of my areas of research is adaptation, I thought this recently posted YouTube video was interesting. Traditionally those who studied adaptation studied how a novel was adapted into a film. More recently, adaptation studies started to look at other types of adaptations. The adaptation from video game to film is an example of other types of adaptation and my area of specialty.

How exactly does one adapt a video game into a film?  What is the process?

See my Delicious bookmarks for more on the Portal adaptation.

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Did You Use Facebook as News Source During Hurricane?

It ain't called a "news feed" for nothin'.
Found the following comment on Facebook which got me thinking.

Did you use Facebook as a news source during the hurricane?   How often?   Did you go to FB (or Twitter) instead of watching coverage on TV or listening on radio?  I wonder if this is being researched.  I wonder how important of a role did FB play in communicating/diffusing news during the hurricane.


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