After reading Chapter 3 from Gillan entitled "Placeshifting, schedule-shifting, and the long-arc serial on ABC" you should be familiar with the following vocabulary:

Placeshifting
Quality Drama
Schedule Shifting
Ensemble drama

Note: Find information on the entire Gillan book here.

Here are some thoughts and questions that may inspire a Mini-Writing paper or Wiki post from this researve reading.

1. Describe how the location for "quality drama" shifted from the broadcast networks to HBO. What actions did both broadcast and premium cable networks take to lead to this migration?

2. Why did the "copy popular trends" mantra of Program Directors actually hurt them when rolling out copies of ABC's successful series Lost?

3. How did ABC change the distribution window to increase the audience for Lost between season 1 and season 2? This strategy was borrowed from Fox, who used it for 24.

4. How was Alias like The Sopronos in its genre? Can you think of any current TV series that fit the same description?

5. How was Lost like Survivor? Can you think of any other current TV series that fit this descprition?

6. According to the author Gillan, what is embedded in the production system of HBO that allows it to program series using a different time window than broadcast networks (p. 140)

7. How did technology allow ABC to convert casual viewers of Lost into regular viewers? Can you think of any series that you were introduced to in such a way?