The serials will now start at 6 PM Mondays. When it started that half hour later by accident today, it seemed to generate a bigger crowd. Could be a coincidence, but maybe it’ll coincide again next week when we show episode four of Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe - The Destroying Ray!

And since you folks seem to enjoy the blog more when I’m talking about the Brains instead of capping minutiae, here are two fake campaign ads from Michael J. Nelson:

p.s. “Michael” is in fact the answer to the question that was so hotly debated during today’s Flash Gordon episode.

The Film Crew, aka Kevin Murphy, Mike Nelson, and Bill Corbett are gearing up to release riffed DVDs starting in April 2007. You can go to their site and vote for their first release, after watching the two minute clips riffing the opening of the four candidates.

Ordinarily, I’d just assume you read Satellite News and not mention this sort of thing, but I wanted to give myself a pat on the back and point out that two of the candidates have already appeared right here as part of Inventing Situations Playhouse. Namely, Killers From Space and The Giant of Marathon. And since I keep almost everything in endless rotation rotation, they will appear here again (and again, and again…)

What’s more, starting some time in the next week or two, those last two links will allow you to request a showing of those movies (well, selected still images from those movies) at a time you select thanks as part of our free beta test of the technology that will eventually let me charge you for the same thing. PROGRESS!

(Though the beta test will probably have some sort of limit on how many requests you can make, unless of course it turns out I’m being optimistic and I don’t get swamped with requests.)