<![CDATA[Gawker: turner]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gawker.com.png <![CDATA[Gawker: turner]]> http://gawker.com/tag/turner http://gawker.com/tag/turner <![CDATA[ Contextual Ad Fun: Coming Soon to Television ]]> olive.jpgTurner Entertainment is experimenting with bringing contextual advertising to television. We all know and love contextual advertising on the internet—it's how Google controls your mind, after all—and we're excited to see the concept finally ported to the idiot box. Just think, the utterly inappropriate and often offensive juxtapositions of content and ads we know and love online will soon be an inescapable reality on our TVs. [NYT]

]]> Thu, 15 May 2008 10:34:43 EDT Pareene http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=390776&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[ Super Deluxe Becomes The Internet's <i>Arrested Development</i> ]]> baby-cakes.jpgIt's over! The most consistently funny comedy site on the Internet is getting folded into AdultSwim.com. Turner is shutting down Super Deluxe and laying off most of its staff, according to paidContent.org. Now the original web content will get stuck with clips from Family Guy and Adult Swim's increasingly weird-without-payoff lineup. The good news: The guy below gets a TV deal.

As with Arrested Development, Super Deluxe was a cult hit that just didn't get huge mainstream attention — like pretty much every video content site besides College Humor. But also like the show, it introduced some great talent who are going on to better deals. Well, at least one of them.

Brad Neely, creator of the classic "Washington, Washington" cartoon, got a TV deal for his two Super Deluxe series "Baby Cakes" and "Professor Brothers." Super Deluxe has a preview:

But if the site drops shows like Chasing Donovan and Derek and Simon (which already looks dead), I hope to god they get a deal somewhere else. Because I ain't watching "Tim and Eric" again.

]]> Thu, 08 May 2008 14:20:52 EDT Nick Douglas http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=388619&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[ Media Bubble: On Death and Dying ]]> trash.jpg
  • Headline News discovers what Fox has known all along: People like evil. [Chicago Tribune]
  • Turner Entertainment wants a piece of this web thing. [WSJ]
  • The 'Toos could not be more thrilled about her replacement at Seventeen. [NYP]
  • The O.C. was apparently still on TV. And now it's dead. [B&C]
  • Megan Mullally was apparently still on TV. And now she's dead. Okay, not really, but her talk show is. We're inching ever closer to that Will & Grace reunion special. [Defamer]

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