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When's The Next Sweeps? (11/27/00)
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Hands up, who remembers "Redmond Justice"? No, the once-highly-rated courtroom drama wasn't cancelled, but admittedly its ratings could use a pretty hefty boost. Unfortunately, the show peaked back when the witness testimony was in full swing; who could forget such wonderful moments as a videotaped Bill Gates claiming not to know what "is" means, Judge Jackson laughing out loud at Microsoft's defense, and government mouthpiece David Boies revealing Redmond's attempts to fake their own evidence-- more than once? Ah, those were the days...
We can only assume that the show went through a massive personnel change or something, because ever since Judge Jackson's ruling that Microsoft should be split down the middle, the writing has lacked... oomph. The players are pretty much the same, but now that the case is knocking around in the appeals process, the action on "Redmond Justice" has slowed to match the glacial pace of the U.S. judicial system, presumably for the sake of "realism." But guess what, people? There's a reason that lawsuits on TV go to trial overnight-- viewers don't want to sit through months of discovery and scheduling nonsense. They have better things to do. (Well, okay, probably not, but they have better things to watch.)
However, this long stretch of inactivity on "Redmond Justice" may soon be winding to a close. According to a Reuters article, today's the day on which Microsoft is slated to file its brief outlining the various and sundry reasons why it doesn't deserve to be torn apart like a pair of star-crossed lovers on some other much more interesting TV show. Among those reasons, the company is expected to list Judge Jackson's perceived no-nos, both in the courtroom and out. For instance, not only did His Honor accept the government's breakup proposal "without holding further hearings," but he's also been known to jabber with the press on occasion-- about the case.
The government, for its part, has until January 12th to file its response to Microsoft's brief. The show won't really heat up until February 26th, though; that's the day on which both sides are scheduled to put aside all the paperwork and just scream at each other in court. Don't forget to set those VCRs!
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 11/27/00 episode: November 27, 2000: About those two upcoming "iMovie-like" apps-- could one of them be an Internet telephony package? Meanwhile, Mac OS X may be just months away from release, but Microsoft's getting Whistler ready for battle, and "Redmond Justice" limps along as Bill's lawyers prepare to file yet another brief that isn't...
Other scenes from that episode: 2702: "Hello, Is Steve There?" (11/27/00) And so ends another epic four-day weekend for U.S. denizens, who more than likely gave thanks for the existence of Maalox over trivial things like food, shelter, family, and all that rot. Talk about a stressful four days; it kicked off with the traditional eat-til-you-hurt-yourself bingefest on Thursday, followed by the maim-others-if-you-have-to commencement of the holiday shopping frenzy on Friday-- which, of course, continued throughout the weekend... 2703: The Competition's Brutal (11/27/00) We've all been waiting for Mac OS X for donkey's years, so naturally we're all pretty excited that it's finally going to ship sometime "early next year." Our bet's on early May, probably at the Worldwide Developers Conference; while that date certainly falls on the right side of the Pessimism Bell Curve, given the lack of "fit and finish" in the public beta, we have a hard time seeing Apple shipping a 1.0 release much earlier than that...
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