Yesterday of course was the Super Bo… er, the Football Match Whose Name We Can’t Mention Without Paying $1 Million in Licensing Fees. And around our house we did have the game on from time to time, but we were flipping between it and… Puppy Bowl.
This is the second year that Animal Planet has shown the Puppy Bowl, and I think it’s brilliant. It’s three hours of puppies playing on a miniature football field. That’s it. Puppies play, fight (in that fun puppy way), drink water, lick things, etc. It’s a wonderful change of pace.
Of course the idea for this isn’t totally new. The first I heard of it was on a This American Life segment about The Puppy Channel, which would run video of puppies all day long. As TPC’s site says, “Everyone feels better when watching puppies.”
Posted in Television, Movies, and Music
Dan FitzSimons January 3, 2007, 10:56 pm
[see PS for “commercial” disclaimer]
hi folks
we have been pleased with
the kind words offered about
The Puppy Channel(R) in your space
[along with some understandable negative comments]
we want you and others you might choose to share this with
to know that we have awakened from our extended cybernap
and are pursuing the opportunity again in two ways
1. we are seeking investment from ‘angels’ and others
who can make possible our development as video-on-demand
online or on tv since we can’t do it without new funding
2. we are selling the dvd version of our original pilot show
at thepuppychannel.com [$25 delivered by mail]
in hopes of financing more progress
if you get to the website you’ll notice little has changed
from the version that went up in march 1999 and
that’s because we got our fuzzy little
legs cut off when the dotcom
bubble burst
but we are back to trying to build on the successful
market research results we got in the 90s
and gratified by the feedback any time
this american life re-runs ‘our’ show
a recent webcast of an interview
is at video.google.com if you
search for the puppy channel
it might clear up a bit of the misinformation
and lack of full information available to
anyone who’s been following this
thank you for passing on news about
our honest effort when you do
best regards
dan fitzSimons
ps—since we have a commercial purpose
for updating parties interested in our progress
we want you to edit out anything that may not fit
your policies about promotion and commercialization
if you should choose to share any of this news with readers