Newsgroups are back, motherfuckers.



I've renewed my interest in the usenet thanks to a great linux newsreader called PAN. Pulling TV shows off the newsgroups is a trillion times faster than bittorrent. The selection is a lot more limited, and searching isn't the easiest thing in the world, but there's a lot of weird shit on the usenet that people don't upload as torrents.

I'm a fan of alt.binaries.multimedia.comedy.british right now. I pulled down three episodes of the new BBC3 show Gavin and Stacey in about fifteen minutes. I'd been waiting for days for them to download from the single bittorrent seeder, and it was really starting to piss me off.

The show is fairly funny, somewhat light hearted, still crude enough to make me laugh, but subtle enough to hold my attention. It, like all decent contemporary comedies, is a filmed, single camera show shot all on location. I'm constantly amazed that the majority of American sitcoms are still "taped before a live studio audience". The old "tell a joke, now wait for the laugh" method of television is so over it hurts me. Thanks to the power of the interweb, I'm not a prisoner of broadcast tv. Fuck you, George Lopez, I don't have to watch your drivel, I have options.
- posted by Mason @ 11:34 PM