AlternaTV

Okay, so we all know the Writer's Guild of America is striking (for a view from the front lines, go here), which means that after the networks air all the episodes of their shows that are either already in the can, currently being produced, or have scripts finished, that's it. Dunzo. End of TV season. The ish is over DVD and online residuals (as of now, TV writers get $0.04 per DVD sale--they want it bumped to $0.08--and nothing from online streaming, which networks collect advertising dollars for; not fair, basically), plus pensions and other crap I don't understand, and the experts are declaring it a short TV season. For more details on when your faves go dark, check out Mike Ausiello's post on TVGuide.com.

Meanwhile, perhaps you should look into alternatives, like Clark and Michael, which I pimped last week, or my new discovery, quarterlife, which is online-only, streaming on MySpace. And, coincidentally, it also stars an actor from ABC Family's "Greek"! This time, Rob Thomas lookalike Cappie! Who, let's face it, is hot. quarterlife refers to a video blog kept by one Dylan Krieger, an editorial associate (or associate editor--they're really not very clear on this) at a Seventeen-like mag in (I guess) LA. Kind of like Lonelygirl15 (actually, the girl who plays Dylan was on "Lonelygirl15") but...older? I think these people are supposed to be our age. I think it's pretty entertaining, but that's because I'm an easy sell. Laters!