Even though I always enjoy becoming an editor, this time it feels less enjoyable.

I got the "you've become an editor" PM and thought: "What the....." and then I noticed it was for The O.C.

After sending Ross, whose TU I was, a PM it turns out his retirement wasn't voluntary. I'm not discussing details but I trust Ross and believe him, which is why I awarded him a TU slot in return.

So, with mixed emotions I'm the new editor of The O.C.. Once immensely popular and a st yle icon, FOX decided to cancel it, even though season 4 was just as great as season 2 and better than season 3. Opinions about that differ, as do the opinions about the Marissa character but I'm not making public statements about that here and now LOL

In other news, it's quite busy for me at work, and therefore submitting has to take a backseat. Even watching tv has been reduced but fortunately many of my favourite shows are on a summer break and some have even been cancelled

One show that's just started again is My Boys I've not seen the latest episode but hope to find the time to watch it this week. Next week my boss is on holiday, so I might have more time at work I'm also looking forward to new episodes of Weeds which is followed on showtime by (prepare for a shameless plug of DJ's show) Secret Diary of a Call Girl (I'm ashamed to say I've not watched this YET!)

Enjoy the summer and the sun everyone and for those interested in football (or soccer), I'd like to remind everyone that I'm Dutch ROFL

Wanna bet I'm going to regret this after the next round?? I hope not !!!! To think, I'm not even interested in football but I like the positive opinions everyone seems to have of the Dutch team (at the moment)

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Instant editor makes it sounds like instant coffee not a good thing, oh well with the new instant editorship feature, I became the editor of:

Another old-ish, British series which premiered in 1971 that I vaguely remember watching bits of. Many episodes were missing completely, so I added them. The trick now is to find matching episode summaries

Two news editorships for me in one week that hasn't happened in a long, long time. Of course, it helped a lot in finally moving on a level and I'm now a Guzzlefish

Not watched a lot since my last blog, unsurprisingly, but I did manage a few movies

Gremlins

A cl@ssic Fun and scary at times. Didn't actually remember this being set around Christmas.

Gremlins 2: The New Batch

Not as original as the first one (duh) but still fun and I loved the "intermission" LOL

Surfer King

Piece of fluff, but it's always great to see Lindsay Wagner, who's underused in this movie though

The Dukes of Hazzard: The Beginning

Watched this after having watched the Dukes of Hazzard movie (as mentioned in my previous blog). This one is OK, as long as you don't care about continuity and anachronisms (I think that's what they're called LOL )

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No, no, I'm not going there on holiday. I somehow managed, within the space of 3 days or so, to become the editor of the UK comedy show called Benidorm and after watching it, I'd never even consider going there on holiday

It didn't have a single quote and had incomplete cast and crew listings, so I started adding quotes and I've been fixing the credits and became its editor. Still loads to do, as far as I can tell, almost all episode summaries were copied from other sites (I edited one, but need to edit the others as well). It's been a while since I've gotten a new guide so YAY

This is a picture from it, featuring the 'lovely' Garvey family including orange-tanned, chain-smoking Madge LOL

In other me-related news it's glorious weather here and it's a long weekend too. Monday is Whit Monday, i.e. a day off and Sunday is Mothering Sunday over here. It's already been in the UK, not sure about the US, but being the dutiful son that I am I will drive to the Netherlands and visit my parents and have a BBQ YUM

What I have been watching:

Flood

A disaster movie, made for TV (make that ITV ) that hasn't made in to either movietome or tv.com. It's wasn't bad as such, but it wasn't great either. It was fun to see familiar bits of London flooded though

Shelter

A lovely coming-out, surfer movie.

Hollow Man 1 and 2

1 was better than I remembered and 2 was hardly worth the name sequel and I bet Christian Slater only did it for the money.

The Dukes of Hazzard

As a fan of the original series, I long avoided this but the DVD was on sale, very cheaply, so I couldn't resist. Not a Knoxville fan but he was bearable in this, the same goes for Ms Simpson. I've always liked Sean William Scott and he was good in this one too.

Deceit

OK thriller with surprise twist at the end. Again, this one did not make it to either movietome or tv.com

Sydney White

Enjoyable teen comedy very loosely based on snow white

The latter two movies I watched because they featured an actor from one of the tv shows I watched, namely Matt Long, who starred in:

Jack and Bobby

This is a brilliant series that, unfortunately only lasted one season. It's smart, intelligent, well written and stars great actors. Unmissable and thus recommended !!!

As usual, continued to watch some other series as well, but you all know them by now They are: The Tudors, Big Bang Theory, How I Met Your Mother, Doctor Who, Battlestar Galactica, Gossip Girl and Greek. Oh yeah, Obviously I should add Benidorm to that list, but there's only one episode of season 2 left

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Having just finished writing two recaps I was wondering. As mentioned in a previous blog, I think writing one is a lot of work so I'm curious to see how other people do this.

I write the recap while watching the episode for the first time and I wonder whether that doesn't spoil some of the enjoyment of watching the show. Basically, I watch a scene and write it down; sometimes I watch the scene again to write down a quote or to listen to a name again. Then on to the next scene, etc. ec. etc. Do people watch it in full first and write a recap during their second time watching it? Do people take notes while watching it first before writing the recap?

How do YOU do it??

What shows and movies did I watch, you ask?

Well

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

Despite some glowing reviews, I don't get this movie. It's too artsy for my taste. Some funny moments but not enough to endure this movie. It is however, the first time I've seen Owen Wilson act

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre - The Beginning

Surprisingly enjoyable, if you like this kind of movie, of course

Lars and the Real Girl

Another quirky movie, it seems to be my favourite word to describe movies Maybe that says something about my taste in movies LOL Ryan Gosling was very good in this though !!

Step up and Step up 2

Part one had the better script (relatively speaking) but part 2 had the better dance moves.

White Nights

Unsirprisingly, they don't make this kind of movie any more. Some odd turns in the script but enjoyable, if only to see a part of history.

Lawn Dogs

While beautifully shot and featuring good acting, this is another movie that I simply don't get. What was the script writer or the director trying to say ??? There are so many mixed messages in this movie that it's hard to make sense of it. BTW, it's difficult to imagine this little girl growing up to become a diva in The O.C.

The Leage of Extraordinary Gentlemen

Melodramatic and grandiose but fun at times if you ignore the odd mish-mashof literary characters combined in this movie.

Catch me if you can

Another Spielberg gem and even though I''m not the bigggest Tom Hanks fan, he was OK in this. Leo was great.

Phew, I'm surprised I've got time to go to work and watch telly but I do I watched the usual tv shows, which I'm not going to link to because I've done that a few times already. They are: The Tudors, Big Bang Theory, How I Met Your Mother, Doctor Who, Battlestar Galactica and Greek,

I'm glad the staff at tv.com listened to its members and decided not to duplicate guides. I think most editors can certainly live with the interim solution. I hope CNET makes a bit more money available to get more DEV staff and implement a proper solution soon !!

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Everyone, please read this thread in the "UK shows on tv.com" forum. The same sentiment and issue is being discussed in Lin's Blog, in DJ's blog and in TheOldBill's blog and possibly quite a few others as well. :!

Basically tv.com staff seems to think it's OK, contrary to all existing guidelines, to duplicate guides and the information they contain for a US broadcast of a UK show. Yes, you read that right, it's not a remake but the original British version shown on US television and apparently that warrants a new guide

Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to warrant new information because they approve submissions that copy and paste info from the guide for the original UK show. Some shows now have two guides, the original version (now labelled UK) and the new, copied version (which, of course , lacks a US label).

I think that's disgraceful!! and a clear signal to the editors of the original guides that their work is, somehow, not good enough for the US

A few solutions have been suggested and I hope that, for a change, tv.com staff listen to the voice of their members. Their faithful members who spent lots and lots of time on their guides which suddenly can be duplicated and plagiarised without so much as peep from our esteemed staff members.

As an editor of both UK and US shows, I feel this duplication of guides is a very, very bad idea. It will confuse people searching for information on these shows and that makes a return visit to this site unlikely (reducing ad revenues), surely not the intention of CNET.

Support originality, refrain from duplicating guides and information and let your voice be heard!

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