Announcing The Bingeworthy Blogathon

  

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On The Midnite Drive-In I recently started a series which I call "Bingeworthy", which focuses on TV shows that your humble blogger considers worth watching multiple episodes in a row. The concept of "binging" TV shows predates the modern era.

 

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When I was a kid back in the 70's, there would be what were called "marathons", in which a local station (usually one of the UHF stations) would run several episodes in a row of a classic TV series. It was where I first got my taste for The Twilight Zone. Nowadays you don't even have to depend on the whims of some programming grunt to decide which episodes of a series you would like to watch. With streaming, as well as DVD collections, you can pick and choose a TV series and watch whatever you want.

 

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The thing is, with this technology you can schedule a "binge" session of a TV series you like and watch 2, 3 or 4 hours, or even more, of your favorite TV shows. You can also do the same thing with movies. I once sat through an entire night of The Hobbit, running all three of the films in succession in one sitting. 

 

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Give credit to Gil, who writes the Realweegiemidget Reviews blog for the inspiration for this blogathon. Once she planted the seed in my mind, it just germinated to a full size in my mind.

For this blogathon I am asking for your choices in jam sessions of classic TV series. Or, if you choose, a series of films that are inter-connected. For films I'm thinking of such things as the Indiana Jones films, the Rocky saga, The Lord of the Rings trilogy and the like. So you don't necessarily have to stick with a TV theme. 

All I'm asking is that the binge session you pick have some kind of thematic connection. (In other words, don't just say, for instance, Citizen Kane, The Godfather, The Wizard of Oz and Star Wars and just say "the Greatest Movies of All Time" is your theme, please. Have some thematic thread of connection that puts them all in together. For example, writing about the various incarnations of Sherlock Holmes would be acceptable. But writing about favorite films featuring an actor or an actress, using random unconnected films would not. Save those for somebody's Katherine Hepburn or Spencer Tracy tribute.

 

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The dates for this blogathon are not necessarily concrete. I'm not oblivious to the fact that many of you have family and friends getting together over the holidays. So you can post early, that's fine. The connection won't appear on this blog until the date I set up, but if you want to play along, feel free to get your entry in earlier. But I am asking for new material. Not something written months or years ago. 

And I am not establishing a limit on entries. If someone else claimed your preferred choice, go ahead and choose it again. That said, I sincerely HOPE that I don't have a dozen entries for Breaking Bad or Mad Men, but if it happens, it happens...

You know the drill by now:

1. Write your blog piece about your favorite "binging" TV or film experience.

2. Notify me here when it is live on your blog.

3. Use one of the above buttons I created for the blogathon in your post. (And, yes, this time I actually made them myself... Can't you tell...? LOL)

4. Have fun. And Happy holidays and Happy New Year

Quiggy 

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