In perhaps the most bizarre and mind-whizzingly inspirational news of the week, lostremote has announced that Sony are launching its Minisode Network (currently only available on MySpace). In a move that may prove to be like Black Wednesday for sitcom writers, Sony has decided that if you cut enormous amounts of dialogue and action out of your regular, classic show, it still makes perfect sense. Six-minute version of TJ Hooker here.
Makes sense in a modern world, but still makes you worry a little for the future of TV drama. I mean, if you CAN chop 70% of the content and still make sense, then why the hell not just do that?
Friends could easily be three minutes or less (including full titles), and much as I love House, I'm willing to bet you could squish most episodes into less than two minutes. Ill person comes to hospital. House is rude to ill person. Ill person gets worse. House happens upon clue in completely random other patient. Patient gets better! There. Ninety seconds, if that.
