V I D E O A G E • N o. 2 • M a r c h / A p r i l 2 0 0 8 Cover stories: An Italian-American quakes Hollywood: WGA’s Patric M. Verrone Assesses the Writers’ Strike. L.A. Screenings is more than moneymaking appointments for the studios. For Los Angeles, it also means mucho dinero. Africa is television’s last frontier and DISCOP Africa is ready to prove it. Murdoch family values: Pay one and get a total of four — but not for free. 4. World. California, Italy, Japan, UAE. 12. Book review. Star power in Hollywood’s Golden Age. Compare it with today’s age. 14. Company profile. CinemaVault is big on the fact that it likes to be small. 16. Canada’s funny bone. But to tickle it, one has to go south. 18. Ethnic TV — no longer dirty words. 20. Euros to make dollars see green. 22. Farrell Meisel explains how Poland is a dynamic TV market 24. The drama of German TV drama makes pundits cry. 26. Technology: Getting high on hi-def. 28. Hollywood turns EST after profits went south with new media. 30. Every body part of an actor can be monetized. 32. NATPE review. Moving with the times: from show business to shoe business. 38. Berlin film market report. Call it Berlinale, but it could just as well have been AFMnale. 44. MIP-TV preview. Expect lots of action, business and some reaction to the latest events. 48. Trade advertising at TV markets such as MIP is 50 percent good. At least according to Bob Jenkins. Which 50 percent is as yet unkown. 54. Dermot Horan plays the “What if” scenario had WGA’s strike continued into the spring or summer. Plus, what’s left of TV pilots. 60. Hollywood rewritten. The calm after the storm. Assessing post-strike damages. 62. News about fairs, conventions and conferences worldwide. 64. My 2¢. Why Canadians are funny and others are not.
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