thanq for the information

If by "worst" you mean which movie I totally despise and were anyone to buy it for me I'd punch them in the head, then Friday 13th (2009). 

So bluerays, okidoki - does anyone know if they're the same length as the dvd versions cos I don't me me no blueray player.

(1) Unforgiven
(2) Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
(3) Transformers 3
(4) The Dark Knight
(5) Batman Returns
(6) Lethal Weapon

Any chance someone with an artistic bent (that's a saying, right ?!) can put together some kinda promotional poster/jpeg for the LOTR extraviganza so I can post in a "suggest a site" thread in another forum ???? :pleeeeeze:

^thanx for the info and I'll leave it on my not-right-now list. (which is where I should have left Moneyball and its [spoiler(ish) removed] ending.)

Another "not a pre show buzz builderupper" but what would make me interested in trying out a new show would be if (probably phrasing this wrongly) the makers would guarantee a final ep. By this I mean (not to sound -ve but...) if the show doesn't perform well enough to continue, the loyal viewers will get some kinda rounding off ep, or (like the Defying Gravity people/person did) be a "this is where we would have liked to taken the story had we had more time" page in the website. (The MiddleMan people brought out a comic book for the unmade final ep to round of the season NaughtyLad arc).

BTW, to piggy back on those "design a nose cone", "name a baddie" ideas, what about havng the viewers provide the garnish rather than the main courses - ie    rather than chose the main route they could contibute to the minor details - store names the hero passes, artwork for the fridge, name of the first spaceship destroyed. If you let the audience pick important stuff you run the risk of having to then overall(?), of saying no, like when
(1) childrens show ask viewers to name a teddy bear - Mohammad won.   
(2) chess show, audience play white, audience move judged "not a good one" so they overalled (that's the right word, right ?!) it and made "the right" choice.
which just didn't sit right with me. 

The "people send in art work" idea reminded me of a Casey Lebow CSI NY episode (s5e07) where she (iirc) played someone who collected peoples secrets, sent to her in postcard sized, which she put on her walls (see pix)

Maybe one of the cast people collects photos of people holding watermelons - a simple thing that would be easy for anyone to put together (hence the simple tag) and email to you.

For more audience participation, I was reminded of an ep of The Norm show (starring Norm MacDonald) how at the end of one ep in the kinda form of those outtake bits some shows do. Well they showed him saying ~20 viewer suggested alternative punchlines to jokes in the show, with a "suggested by Bernie from California" & "suggested by Jane from Croydon" caption during each one.

btw: I tried imdbing to find the exact ep and found the following under ep 218 -
In this episode, viewers are encouraged to pick up on 50 references to classic movies.  - you CAN 'borrow' ideas done in other shows, right ?!

Those vanity cards the Big Bang Theory fellow does, to give people with a [pause] button the opportunity to use it get more stuff - if one of your actors is into online flash games and you were to tell people which one and provide a link to it, then people could aim for a top10 score placement and see their name pop up after the cast member finishes their game - I guess this idea would kinda suck if your programme was a Western.

Things that I've liked in other shows is the NCIS's Gibbs rules - I'm sure there's a web page that added each new rule as soon as it was broadcast - and the Charmed and Grimm thing of a book of knowledge thing which I'm sure there is a web page that allows you to print out each weeks spell/creature picture & description & killing method to collect over the series. <- but those are all not "things to happen before the show has even started to build up the #### <- can't think of the word.

One thing that would get me immediately interested in a show and want to mark its start date on me calendar would be finding out out Kristen Bell is starring in it - but methinks with this not being "a million dollar show" that a big named star is out of the question.

[edit] It was episode s3e16 of the Norm Show.

^ there were only 11 movies in the original Friday 13th series - surely they could knock out commentaries for all of them over a long weekend.  .

[intermission idea removed cos, on reflection, it was rather pants]

I know tv stations would never do this: but if they would guarantee each of their shows, when cancelled, would get a final ep to round of the series, maybe people would be so keen to jump ship immediately upon hearing mutterings of cancellation.

btw: does your list of cancellation types include the one where the makers finish of the season (sometimes leaving us on an end of season cliffhanger), only to find out later that the show won't be returning (no mention of cancellation having been mentioned beforehand).

(was saving this mastery comment on your commentary until it was officially released  )

One of your team said something like "Mr Urban had, like, a sweet deal -> all that strength and able to go out in the sun, who wouldn't want that". Postulating "who wouldn't want to take him up on his "I'll make you like me" offer." (ish).

Personally, though those qualities are appealing, having to live on blood would dampen the joy (I do like my chips).

(though it's been a while since I listened so I might have miss-heard. )