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  • The Jim Backus Show

    Mike O’Toole owns and runs a second-rate news service that he struggles to keep afloat financially. His employees include the attractive Dora and Dave as reporters. Sidney is the office boy who often gets into misadventures.

  • SYFY Wire’s The Great Debate

    Baron Vaughn is joined by his robot sidekick, DB-8, and celeb panelists to debate burning questions in science fiction, fantasy, horror, comics and general geekdom.

  • Wire in the Blood

    Clinical psychologist Dr Tony Hill’s uncanny ability to see into the minds of murderers means he finds it difficult to distance himself from disturbing cases.

  • World on a Wire

    Cybernetics engineer Fred Stiller uncovers a massive corporate conspiracy involving a virtual reality computer project.

  • Reed Wrapped Wire Flowers

    When a beautiful and sharp young one decides to disguise himself as the successor to a very large and wealthy family; a successor who also happened to flee his wedding, a drama of all sorts ensues. The story of a couple who disguise themselves as an assistant cook and his wife.

  • The Wire

    Told from the points of view of both the Baltimore homicide and narcotics detectives and their targets, the series captures a universe in which the national war on drugs has become a permanent, self-sustaining bureaucracy, and distinctions between good and evil are routinely obliterated.

  • Whales of Atlantis: In Search of Moby Dick

    Dive into the dark waves of the Atlantic to make contact with the Giants of the Sea.

  • Moby Dick: An American Allegory

    A look at US society through the prism of Moby Dick, the mythical novel published by Herman Melville (1819-1891) in 1851.

  • Animated Epics: Moby Dick

    Paint-on-glass animation of the classic novel.

  • Moby Dick – Godzilla – Fukushima

    In a timely precursor, this 40 minute talk sees Alexander Kluge and Joseph Vogl return to their customary roles. Kluge feigns the curious lay reader. He defers to the professional diviner of high and popular culture, Vogl. Together they make a sort of Dante and Vergil team, undaunted by the hellish difficulties in their pursuit of meaning and complexity. And these are the questions they ask themselves: Moby Dick – Ahab. Who are they? Godzilla. How does it compare to MB? What is monstrous, what is monstrosity?