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...channel's biggest splash, though, may be Gormenghast, a four-part, $10 million adaptation of Mervyn Peake's lyrical fantasy trilogy (Saturdays, various times, beginning June 10). The lavish mini-series follows Steerpike (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), a charismatic kitchen boy who insinuates and murders his way to power within the tired, decaying House of Groan. Unlike many American fantasy minis, it's neither a ponderous classics lesson nor a sugarcoated trifle, but a grotesquely funny, vulgar and penetrating tale of class and demagogy with pointed meaning for Britons. "In Gormenghast, you have this rusty royal family--well...
...motivation behind the channel is not cultural rehabilitation but the chance to grab a piece of the lucrative American market. The BBC has long sold reruns to the likes of PBS and licensed programs for adaptations (All in the Family, for instance, was based on Till Death Us Do Part). "The BBC was very proud of its success on [American TV]," says Paul Lee, BBC America's chief operating officer. "But it had no equity stake." So the broadcaster--a public entity in Britain--negotiated an alliance with Discovery Communications, parent of Discovery and other channels, which helped launch...
...shows "closer to the new Beetle than to the Jaguar: vibrant, contemporary, different." While the network is not yet rated by Nielsen, it's the edgier programming--running in blocks called Cool Britannia and the Britcom Zone--that has inspired a dedicated audience following and critical praise. But the channel also hedges its bets with BBC news and more traditional reruns like Dr. Who and, yes, Ballykissangel. "If you liked that kind of programming, now you can get a lot more of it," says Judith A. McHale, president and chief operating officer of Discovery Communications. (And the BBC will still...
Aside from that, the installation was as simple as advertised. In about 15 minutes. I created my own site, Little Al's Video Horror Show, within a channel called Warp ("Avant-garde, urbane, sci-fi, beyond"), which is one of 14 channels on SpotLife. I also tweaked the performance of my site; I could tell my Webcam to click an image of me once a minute, or every few seconds, then upload it to my site. Or I could send live video out to the Net; users are limited to 240 "live" minutes a month. I could make...
...find people who could help restore the music curriculum at P.S. 58 and hundreds of other schools. Who would be more enthusiastic about giving kids a trumpet to toot or a guitar to strum than those whose talent had been nurtured and who had got air time on Sykes' channel? Under Sykes' Save the Music campaign, Wynton Marsalis, Eric Clapton, Sheryl Crow and Gloria Estefan, among many others, eagerly raised money to purchase instruments--and that was before all the buzz about what music can do for the soul and the psyche. By the time school bells ring this September...