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Minisode Network Condenses TV Shows to Under Six Minutes

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the readers-digest-television dept.

CNN is reporting on a (relatively) new website called the Minisode Network that allows users to watch popular television shows that have been strategically condensed down to somewhere between four and six minutes. "Don't think of the Minisode Network as a brand-new Web site. Think of it as a long-overdue public service. That is, who among us hasn't felt the double-edged sword of our media age: So much video from TV, DVDs, the Internet and even cell phones ... but too little time to watch it all? The Minisode Network has a solution. Launched in June as a broadband channel on the MySpace site, it offers, for our streaming pleasure, episodes of vintage Sony Pictures Television series like 'Silver Spoons,' 'Starsky & Hutch,' 'Diff'rent Strokes' and even Ricki Lake's talk show."

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  1. Today on Maury... by KillerCow · · Score: 5, Funny

    Who's the father of Kisha's baby? Tyrone.

    Tune in next week!

    1. Re:Today on Maury... by Dachannien · · Score: 2, Funny

      As for the out-of-control-teens episodes, those can usually be summed up in one word:

      "Whatever."

  2. Genius! by SinGunner · · Score: 2, Funny

    This is the perfect thing for anime!

  3. Re:hmm by ChrisMounce · · Score: 3, Funny

    tl;dr

  4. Re:hmm by g0dsp33d · · Score: 3, Funny

    2 minutes previews and 4 minutes credits? What is going to be in the previews? The credits?

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  5. Re:hmm by Bullfish · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yeah, you're outmoded and stubborn. I bet you read books printed on paper too

  6. Finally! by captainboogerhead · · Score: 5, Funny

    A non-infuriating way to watch Lost.

  7. Re:huh by dangitman · · Score: 4, Funny

    Being older and wiser you can see plain as day that the plot structure was basically the same on every show... almost down to the very second the plotline would unfold the same way.

    Michael: Faster, Knight Boat! We gotta catch those starfish poachers.
    Knight Boat: You don't have to yell, Michael, I'm all around you.
    Michael: Oh, no! They're headed for land.
    Michael: We'll never catch them now.
    Knight Boat: Incorrect--look! A canal.
    Homer: Go, Knight Boat, go!
    Bart: Oh, every week there's a canal.
    Lisa: Or an inlet.
    Bart: Or a fjord.
    Homer: Quiet! I will not hear another word against the boat.
    Marge: OK, TV off. It's family time.
    Homer: Oh, but Marge! Knight Boat, the crime-solving boat!
    Marge: Homer, you promised. One night of family time a week. Besides, that back-talking boat sets a bad example.
    Bart: Says you, woman.

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    ... and then they built the supercollider.
  8. Unfortunately... by WereRaven · · Score: 2, Funny

    Half of each minisode is taken up by the "Previously on Lost" segment.

  9. Re:hmm by Yvan256 · · Score: 3, Funny

    That's a great idea! I'll also invest all my money into SUB... erm.

    MOV... no...

    SHR... that's not it either...

    ah, now I remember! NOP medicines.

  10. Re:Blipverts! by Ginnungagap42 · · Score: 2, Funny

    / Checks to see if somebody mentioned blipverts. Yup. Very good. Carry on.

  11. Re:30 Rock == vacuous tripe by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    oh please... baldwin is an idiot and bad actor, notwithstanding his excellent reputation as a patient, understanding, and empathetic spousal partner and father... Kim Basinger, is that you?
  12. Ahem... by JRHelgeson · · Score: 2, Funny

    ADHDTV anyone?

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