Word: retro
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...Whether that's good business remains to be seen: No sooner were the shows announced in May than never-seen-it-before "Survivor" became the biggest hit of the year. For viewers, the retro slate's generally bad news, but there's some hope. Herewith, a 21st-century premiere-week survival guide...
...figure.) But at least his latest successful stand at the soap genre, "Melrose Place," did it in an original way, focusing on struggling, if beautiful, young people, whereas "Titans" is nothing but a stiffly acted "Dynasty" retread, two decades later. NBC may be hoping the show gets an ironic, retro embrace, but this soap is just Beverly Hills, 9021-over...
...tried a light-hearted X-rated social comedy. All hail, then, to writer-director John Cameron Mitchell, who wrote and starred in the off-Broadway musical hit Hedwig and the Angry Inch, for pretending the last 30 years didn't make hard-core romance obsolete. Shortbus is so retro, it seems sparkling...
...place in the latter part of the '60s and the '70s. So I think it was a more conservative time. I think in the last half-dozen years the brand itself, both in America and globally, has become very hot again - I think there's a fascination with things retro that didn't exist 10 or 15 years...
Part of that effort means bringing Google to businesses that are still offline oriented. Online advertising, though growing fast, represents just 6% of total ad spending. So Google is going retro, ramping up its video-ad program, launching a major radio-ad service and testing ads in print. "We start with the premise that we should partner with everybody," says Tim Armstrong, Google's vice president of ad sales, who helped close the deal with MySpace...