AllThingsD » Brett Erlich http://allthingsd.com Sat, 11 Feb 2012 12:35:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://allthingsd.com/theme/images/logo-rss.jpg All Things Digital http://allthingsd.com/ 144 22 Rotten Tomatoes TV Debuts http://allthingsd.com/20090305/rotten-tomatoes-tv-debuts/ http://allthingsd.com/20090305/rotten-tomatoes-tv-debuts/#comments Thu, 05 Mar 2009 15:20:19 +0000 Andrew LaVallee http://voices.allthingsd.com/?p=9153 Movie buffs are used to visiting RottenTomatoes.com for guidance on whether it will be a “Watchmen” or “Madea Goes to Jail” weekend. Will they tune in as the Web site tries its hand at television?

Tonight, Current, the Al Gore-founded cable station, will begin airing “The Rotten Tomatoes Show.” The half-hour episodes feature co-hosts Brett Ehrlich and Ellen Fox, who review film news and, in Web 2.0 style, draw from users for short (really short–DVD releases are reviewed in haiku form) reviews.

Jeff Plunkett, the show’s executive producer, says that Current approached the movie-review site with the idea of reinventing a genre that–all due respect to “Siskel & Ebert”–hasn’t drawn younger viewers in years.

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]]> http://allthingsd.com/20090305/rotten-tomatoes-tv-debuts/feed/ 0 Hey, We Like Our Soothing Marimba Intro Riff! http://allthingsd.com/20080403/hey-we-like-our-soothing-marimba-intro-riff/ http://allthingsd.com/20080403/hey-we-like-our-soothing-marimba-intro-riff/#comments Thu, 03 Apr 2008 09:23:50 +0000 Kara Swisher http://kara.allthingsd.com/20080403/hey-we-like-our-soothing-marimba-intro-riff/ I meant to get this very funny video about the Web sites of financial publications–from Current TV, by Viral Video Film School–posted sooner, as it made me spit up my coffee several times.

The shaggy Brett Erlich perfectly reviews the sites for the Web 2.0 crowd, making fun of WSJ.com’s soothing video intro music, and the online video stars on Forbes and Fortune (one of whom, Fortune Editor-in-Chief Andy Serwer is an old classmate of mine, in fact).

The best bit is his take on the “Information Highway Traffic Jam” at the end among all us MSM types, driving like teens gone wild on the digital freeway.

Here’s the video:

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