Huff Huff and Sniff Sniff

Sad news for couch potatoes everywhere; Showtime has decided to not continue their critically acclaimed drama Huff after it's just finished second season. This is truly upsetting as Huff was arguably the best but so unjustifiebly underrated show. It's a shame it never managed to garner a bigger audience, which it so deserved.

Allegedly the execs at Showtime were hoping the ratings would jump after the Emmy winning performances last year, but sadly this did not occur --even though Showtime has a policy not to publicly disclose their ratings numbers, we can still propably safely come to the conclusion that the ratings were the reason for Huff's downfall.

At least the small number of viewers who watched and loved the show for it's excellent acting and storylines, will have two great seasons to "huff" over. Let's hope they will be releasing the second season on DVD asap.

The Banana Stand is Moving

The BS is currently in the process of searching for a better home, and will return BIGGER, BETTER and JUICIER than ever before. I'm sick of the constant technical issues I'm having with Blogger, so I can only promise random updates before the moving date arrives. I have big creative plans for the BS, and hope to make them happen in the future.

UPDATE: Sorry to have kept you waiting, I've been so busy with other projects, that the moving day has been delayed. I've now started working on the new and improved BS site, and can't wait to get it up and running asap. I'll be keeping you posted in the meanwhile.

Well Hello! Tricky Grey Area

I'm loving all the media controversy and dispute over the 'wrongly' published picture of the baby Messiah, aka Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt. As reported, the US rights to said images were bought by People magazine - for a whopping 4,1 million- which is owned by Time.Inc., as is Hello! magazine, which scored the UK rights to the pictures. Only it seems that Hello! had a little snafu and posted the cover with the picture on their website, from where it was immediately copied and posted all over the internet - I'm sure there are about nine people who haven't seen the pic of the bambino by now.

Naturally, this is where the suits come in, and the fun starts.
Gawker was one of the blogs that posted the image, and one of the few who still have it up, despite of the lawsuit threats. To read their account of "The battle of Shiloh" and the published legal notices from "Sir Jollypants" visit Gawker.com.

Personally I think Hello! should be happy about all the press coverage, which frankly, it hasn't received since the whole Zeta-Jones-Douglas wedding picture saga.

Is it wrong that I find all this copyright law-talk kinda sexy?