Slouching Towards Bethlehem: The Golden Age is Coming

Being right is great. One of the earlier signs of my Golden Age of Content is repurposing tv content for the web. In essence, this is what networks have been doing with Desperate Housewives and other shows available via iTunes -making us pay for reruns. But we read today that Fox has sold syndication rights for Arrested Development to MSN. There are two reasons I am incredibly happy about this.

Reason the first: it's good content -in fact it's my favourite show by a mile. Reasons the second: It will be ad-supported/free. Here's hoping the show gets a second chance at popularity (a la Family Guy on DVD) because this will greatly increase the chances that it can come back.

Microsoft declared a few months ago that it was getting back into the content creation game. Maybe we could see Arrested Development as a web series? I'd settle for that.

Now if somebody would just buy Firefly and get that running again...