Apparently, in case David Tennant had a last-moment change of mind and decided that he wanted to keep playing the Doctor on Doctor Who, Russell T Davies filmed another ending for “The End of Time”.
Here it is!
Poor Wilfred š
(And thanks to Lee Shelton for passing this along!)...
Okay, YouTube didn’t really call me, but you know…
Last month I reported that Comcast was giving me grief about how I posted a clip from E!’s show The Soup where they used MY commercial from the school board campaign in 2006… without asking me, but I was fine with that. I just expected the same courtesy from E! and its ownership that I have given them. That’s not too much to ask, in my mind.
And of course, this whole thing is too much like that crazy situation with Viacom a little over two years ago. And just as I did with Viacom then I filed a counterclaim with YouTube, per the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
A short while ago I received the following e-mail from YouTube:
...Re: [#561937480] YouTube Support
Copyright Service to me
Hi there,
In accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, we’ve completed
processing
The innuendo in this song is so horribly bad. I have to feel sorry for whoever it was that wrote it. What was Sesame Workshop thinking??
Here is Baby Elmo’s dad serenading his son about “Potty Time”…
“So here is your new potty!
When you have to pee or poo
It’s where you sit to do whatcha gotta do-do!”
You’ve got to wonder: How does Elmo – or any Muppet for that matter – use the potty when someone’s hand is shoved hard up their intestinal tract?...
So I got back from a delightful day of various and sundry stuff (including finally seeing Avatar, review or something coming soon) and I started catching up on an inordinate amount of stuff that had piled up in my absence.
Well, there were two e-mails from YouTube in the e-mail account I use for KWerky Productions. And both of them said that the clip I had posted two years ago of E!’s The Soup had been yanked for “copyright infringement”.
It’s an exact repeat of the situation with Viacom in the summer of 2007.
Sigh…
You know, the first time this happened, I had to laugh. Couldn’t help but giggle at the absurdity of it all. I mean, that was about, what… one minute of a television program and most of it consisting of MATERIAL THAT I HAD CREATED FOR MY SCHOOL BOARD CAMPAIGN!!
It was no different ...
Ahhh, Japan. A country of good-natured people who seem to take everything to the extreme! Where else in the world can you find $150 plates of potentially lethal fish so readily available?
I’ve already shared with y’all some Japanese prank videos. But this next one is definitely over-the-edge darkly hilarious: a Japanese hidden camera “reality” television show fakes a sniper attack on an unsuspecting contestant. Panic Face King is kinda like Candid Camera meets Scare Tactics.
Watch the mayhem! And this is the sort of thing that, for once, you don’t need to worry about a translation š
The 24 countdown timer sound effect is a particularly nice touch š...
Well, it was just “that Star Wars school board campaign commercial”… but at least I can now honestly brag about having made Jay Leno and a studio audience laugh on national television! š
I put the clip of The Jay Leno Show featuring my commercial (along with a few others from around the country) during this past Thursday night’s broadcast on YouTube. Click here to behold Yours Truly’s visual effects and Melody Hallman Daniel’s awesome voice-over entertaining the entire country in prime-time!
However I don’t know how long it’ll be up on YouTube, ‘cuz as soon as I posted it the system told me that NBC Universal had already flagged it for possible infringement… which I’m thinking is just an automated response to the keywords I attached to the video. But even so, after EVERYTHING that I’ve gone through in the past few years pertaining to copyright law (yeah I’m ...
Kinda makes you wonder what Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory would have been like had David Lynch made it…
THAT’s gonna leave a mental scar! š...
Just a friendly reminder that if you want to meet the blogger/proprietor of The Knight Shift in person and you’re going to be in the Raleigh/Durham today, that you’re in luck!
I will be at Artspace, located at 201 East Davie St in Raleigh at 5:45 p.m. this afternoon during the filmSPARK track of SPARKcon: a grassroots-organized four-day festival celebrating individual creativity around the Triangle area and throughout North Carolina. This will be the fourth annual event and this year SPARKcon will be held September 17-20. I’ll be speaking about the bizarre “copyright infringement” situation that happened between Yours Truly and Viacom on YouTube two years ago.
...The Dude Who Took Down Viacom: One Filmmaker’s Story EVENT LOCATION
ArtspaceEVENT DESCRIPTION
Meet North Carolina filmmaker Chris Knight, a.k.a. “The Dude Who Took Down Viacom”. In 2006, Knight made a campaign advertisement to help promote his running
That commercial is going to haunt me for the rest of my life, isn’t it? š
SPARKcon is a grassroots-organized four-day festival in Raleigh celebrating individual creativity around the Triangle area and throughout North Carolina. This will be the fourth annual event and this year SPARKcon will be held September 17-20. And I’ve been invited to speak that Friday night about the very crazy situation that happened between Yours Truly and Viacom two years ago.
...The Dude Who Took Down Viacom: One Filmmaker’s Story EVENT LOCATION
ArtspaceEVENT DESCRIPTION
Meet North Carolina filmmaker Chris Knight, a.k.a. “The Dude Who Took Down Viacom”. In 2006, Knight made a campaign advertisement to help promote his running for a seat on Rockingham County’s Board of Education. Knight did not win a seat on the board, but he did win some internet and media fame as his commercial was featured in
Holy cow!! Now I have seen everything.
Years ago there was a local television station called WGGT Channel 48, broadcasting from Greensboro. This was back when unaffiliated stations were extremely independent in their programming and such. Well, WGGT might have been one of the last to have what many people will fondly remember as a “horror host”: a home-grown character who presented various scary movies and sci-fi flicks on Saturday afternoons.
Except that WGGT did things a little different. It’s “horror” host was a goofy redneck named Billy Bobb, and his show was called Billy Bobb’s Action Theatre.
And believe it or not, someone somewhere has a trove of old recordings of Billy Bobb from WGGT and is now putting them on YouTube.
Here’s a set of promos for Billy Bobb’s Action Theatre…
And here are some commercials featuring Billy Bobb for area businesses…
I wonder whatever happened ...