“Broadcast News” Inspiration in charge of “Countdown” Webisodes
The woman who was the inspiration for Holly Hunter’s character in the 1987 movie, Broadcast News, Susan Zirinsky, is in charge of the “webumentaries” available on the Jericho Official Site called Countdown.
“A lot of the Internet stuff is a recitation of what we already know,” said Ghen Maynard, the CBS executive vice president who oversees the network’s new media programming. “To do it in a way that’s really original to what is airing, but not a boring recitation of facts - that’s really what we’re going for.”
Zirinsky said that merging the genres doesn’t undermine the series’ journalistic value. “What we want is, in an interesting way, to impart a nugget of information,” she said. “The drama? It’s just the appetizer. The meat of the course is still what we do for a living.
I’ve talked about the Countdown webisodes in the past on this site, and I do really like them, though sometimes their “edgy” look makes me a little dizzy. Of course, so did the Blair Witch Project, so maybe it’s just me.
Read the whole article here, and watch the Countdown webisodes here.
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