From news reports to soap operas, Macs are flourishing on the small screen.
Last week’s “Digital Duo” had a long segment on digital video editing. The ending advice was essentially to buy an iMac DV even if you just consider it an expensive camcorder accessory, said Jim Barufaldi.
Saturday’s “Saturday Night Live” showed a Power Mac G4 Cube, according to my compadre, Deborah Shadovitz.
On the soap, “As the World Turns,” there’s a newspaper office set that displays six to eight iMacs of different colors, according to Renee Morton.
On this week’s episode of NBCs “Third Watch,” Carlos the paramedic was shown working on a PowerBook G3 several times during the show, said John Kokai-Kun and John Magruder.
Macs are also “regulars” on such shows as “Dark Angel,” “Just Shoot Me,” “Roswell,” “The Drew Carey Show,” “Boston Public,” “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” “Angel,” “Nash Bridges,” “Friends,” “Freakylinks,” “Sex and the City,” “West Wing,” “Friends,” “Everybody Loves Raymond,” “The Fugitive,” “Roswell,” “The X-Files,” “The Gilmore Girls,” “Malcolm in the Middle,” “King of the Hill,” “Popular,” “Dark Angel,” “Felicity,” “Normal, Ohio,” America’s Funniest Home Videos,” TBN’s “Virtual Memory,” “Queer as Folk,” “Dot Comedy,” “The Powerpuff Girls,” “Thunderstone,” “Ed,” “Gideon’s Crossing,” and New Zealand’s “Shortland Street.”
Tomorrow we’ll check our Macs at the movies.
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