On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

A suggestion to the people currently care-taking for the Star Trek franchise, one that Larry and David Ellison may well try to prevent the heeding of: the writing teams need people who have served in military or NGO contexts, or have survived as refugees and/or dissidents.

I am seeing boxes of Kellogg's product in my suburban Ottawa grocery store. Branded Wednesday and Stranger Things Demogorgon Crunch.

My brain, of course, takes in the packaging on the latter, and flashes back to a first-season episode of Space: 1999 called "Dragon's Domain". Scared the hell out of grade-school-me when I first saw it on CBC Regina TV. I cannot help suspecting that if the the modern marketing mavens at Kellogg's saw that episode of that series, the title critter would be cartoonified on the front of boxes of something called Space: 1999 - Dragon's Delight.

Since the interview's airing on CBC Radio, I'm using this icon.

https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-50-q/clip/16055319-mike-post-joel-plaskett

Post's music has been a large chunk of the soundtrack of my life, in my opinion.

1. David Chase fears that the end of long-form TV has arrived. I'd like him to be able to celebrate being wrong.

2. Peter Capaldi wants to make sure that entertainment talent from the lower classes remains discoverable and supported. He's absolutely right about that.

3. I got through the latest storm okay. Just so you know.

4. A lot of people miss Ed Broadbent.

5. Looks like a propagandist for Reichsters had a hand in Claudine Gay's problems at Harvard.

This is not what I want for the future of the Public Broadcaster:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/cbc-radio-canada-layoffs-budget-1.7048530

Here and I've been listening to this year's edition of the Massey Lectures for most of the afternoon while I was working on the new day job...

This is it, apparently. Paramount is done with Bell Media.

https://ca.startrek.com/news/paramount-plus-streaming-home-star-trek-canada

I've been reminded of this notice from about a month ago:

https://trekmovie.com/2023/07/03/star-trek-shows-exiting-crave-streaming-in-canada-will-continue-broadcasting-on-ctv-sci-fi/

Not sure what to make of it all.

I was thinking we might have another couple of years left.

https://ca.startrek.com/news/star-trek-discovery-conclude-fifth-final-season

My animation professor at Algonquin, Gerry Paquette confirmed by sending this link to me this afternoon:

https://www.awn.com/news/canadian-channel-teletoon-shut-down

Classmates of mine worked on shows for that channel in its early years. We're going to miss it in the forms we've been used to watching it in, I think.

Sad news from Gotham today.

Just published by Associated Press.