There is an op-ed piece on NPR entitled Old TV Is New Again, and Shorter discussing Sony's release of so-called minisodes. These TV classics, such as Who's the Boss?, Charlie's Angles, and The Facts of Life, will be trimmed to run 3-5 minutes, hence the name. Sony plans to distribute through MySpace, hopefully latching onto their viral userbase and targeting a broad audience, the younger of whom have likely never seen these shows.
NPR's commentator on the piece, Andrew Wallenstein, thinks the idea destroys the integrity of the original shows, killing character development, removing plot, etc... His idea: ...
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