by Rick Norwood
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This month the 2010 Fall Season starts late, as the networks vie to see which one can offer the least content
with the most advertising, and more and more people bypass the ads entirely using downloads and DVRs. It's
impossible to guess what the future of television will be like, but fun to try.
News reports have Republicans ten points ahead of Democrats at the polls, which suggests that the future
of America will be an ever-increasing divide between the rich and the poor, with an efficient propaganda
machine convincing the poor that the American, Christian thing to do is to vote against their own
self-interest. In a recent interview, Bill Gates predicted that American investors will build the
new Turbo-Nuke power plants in China. That suggests a future for television in which we watch badly
dubbed Chinese movies interspersed with slick commercials showing Tea Party heroes triumph over
Moslem, Hispanic, liberal fags to preserve our freedom and our way of life.
On the other hand, the demographics look good for the Hispanics, and it may just turn out to be the
case that, beyond a certain point, even American voters will not be willing to give all their money to
Wall Street. That suggests a future for television in which we watch heroic Moslem, Hispanic,
liberal gays triumph over evil multinational corporations to preserve our freedom and our way of
life, interspersed with slick commercials for ever more useless consumer products.
SF on TV in September 2010
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Eureka will return for a fifth season. Darkseid and the New Gods come
to Smallville. Caprica returns in January 2011.
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Rick Norwood is a mathematician and writer whose small press publishing house, Manuscript Press, has published books by Hal Clement, R.A. Lafferty, and Hal Foster. He is also the editor of Comics Revue Monthly, which publishes such classic comic strips as Flash Gordon, Sky Masters, Modesty Blaise, Tarzan, Odd Bodkins, Casey Ruggles, The Phantom, Gasoline Alley, Krazy Kat, Alley Oop, Little Orphan Annie, Barnaby, Buz Sawyer, and Steve Canyon. |
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