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...streaming 10 2-min. "webisodes" through nbc.com Think of them as The Office, the downsized version. The cast is smaller: the plot follows the supporting characters of the Dunder-Mifflin paper company's accounting department as they track down $3,000 missing from the books. Most important, from the network's standpoint, the budget is smaller. "I don't even know if we had a budget," says executive producer Greg Daniels. "It's more like an extra fee." Chalk up another irony for The Office: you have a big year, and the boss asks you to work overtime for peanuts...
...fast? Just a year ago, the big networks were debating whether it was worthwhile to sell shows on iTunes. Millions of downloads later, CBS has launched an entire broadband network, Innertube, at cbs.com on which can be seen sketch comedy, reality makeovers and chat shows for superfans of Survivor and Big Brother. In June NBC Universal debuted online channels for gay programming outzonetv.com and reruns of critics' favorite series (brilliant but cancelled.com) ESPN, Comedy Central, MTV, Discovery, HGTV and more have broadband channels. (On Animal Planet's, you can watch Web-exclusive series Pet Trends for the latest in canine...
...show's richly drawn supporting players, but fans of star Steve Carell will be disappointed to find he's not in any of the episodes. (His character, boss Michael Scott, is referenced, though; an accountant catches him having expensed a J. Crew receipt as "lunch.") Only a few network sites re-create the joyful weirdness of the best amateur viral video; Comedy Central's MotherLoad site, for instance, has Golden Age, a hilarious True Hollywood Story parody about the tragic lives of fictitious celebrity cartoon characters. Other sites are filled with extras that are geekily appealing (Sci Fi Network...
...Further fueling this domestic-tourism boom is the dramatic rise in car sales and the rapid construction of a national highway network, making travel more practical and alluring. China has about 34,000 km of highways, a number that's expected to more than double by 2020. "The highways linking cities in Inner Mongolia are better than the road between Sydney and Melbourne," marvels Bruce McKenzie, who oversees China operations for the U.K.-based InterContinental group, which is among the most aggressive of the international players in China. It currently runs 54 hotels there, mostly under the Holiday Inn marque...
...hope to have a network of these communities in the future," says David Kane, associate executive director of the UCLA alumni association. Kane envisions as many as a dozen complexes serving all ages of UCLA's vast alumni population in the Los Angeles area. "Boomers are going to be tough to market to," he says. "These complexes can't look anything like a retirement community...