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V.23 No.22 | 5/29/2014

Idiot Box
Seasonal Affective Disorder
The lowdown on download
With the broadcast TV season at an end, what new shows can we look forward to this summer? They’re out there, but they may not be on TV. Wha?
V.22 No.17 | 4/25/2013

Idiot Box
Television is Dead
“Zombieland” on Amazon
Network television took another hard hit to the family jewels when Netflix started cranking out original series (“House of Cards,” “Hemlock Grove,” the upcoming “Arrested Development”). Now Amazon is getting in on the action as well, producing an entire network’s worth of shows without so much as a television in sight. Is television dead as a medium? Hard to say just yet. But there are now plenty of other places—besides your television set—to watch bad TV.