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Announcing Appalachian Football Central!

Hello out there in TV land! We here at New Ellijay Television are pleased to bring you our latest television program: Appalachian Football Central. This is a fan centered football review, recap, and analysis program, and we’re taking it on the road (starting later today at several pre-game tailgates for the UGA/Clemson game) with the Appalachian Football Roadshow.

Check it out:

Appalachian Football Central is a fan centered program all about east coast college football. Its part of the new suite of community programming from New Ellijay Television, ahead of our cable launch in September. (That’s right, we’re coming to Cable on ETC channel 176 in less than a month! You’ll be able to watch us in Blue Ridge, Ellijay, and Jasper through ETC cable. Our Live Stream will return along with our cable launch, better than ever. We’ll announce more details and a full Launch Schedule in the near future!)

If Appalachian Football Central sounds like your kind of party, you can follow us on Instagram and Threads @AppalachianFootballRoadshow.

If you’re a fan of our other, frequently weirder programming, it will be back soon too!

We’ve got more of The Hastening and Behind The Curtain in the works, as well as new episodes of KSPR, a new program in the Expedition Sasquatch universe (Available now in early access for backers), a local history and wilderness ethics show, and some new science fiction stuff all coming down the pipeline soon.

If you’d like access to these programs before the rest of the world (including early access to Appalachian Football Central: Overtime, a special deep dive program for things that don’t fit in the main run episode) consider sponsoring us:

Thanks for being a part of this journey with us!

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Happy Birthday Dasheill Hammett

Famed crime noir author Dasheill Hammett was born this day 130 years ago. Today, he is best remembered for writing the novels and short stories that inspired the adventures of Sam Spade, The Maltese Falcon, The Thin Man, and The Glass key.

We were fortunate enough to find this seldom seen, Made-For-TV adaptation of his novel The Glass Key:

And, of course, our sister shop Hemlock Bazaar has a bit of Hammett to celebrate as well.

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Mickey Mouse in the Public Domain

WELCOME TO 2024! This year, the American Public Domain received a significant gift. That’s right, Mickey Mouse is in the public domain. And not just Steamboat Willie! There’s also Plane Crazy!

The cartoons join a number of shorts featuring Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, Alice, and other Disney creations.

But what does it mean for something to be in the public domain? Well, I’m not a lawyer, so I’m not going to speculate. But Duke Law weighed in, and you should read what they had to say. As for us, we’re making podcasts about him:

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Announcing 研究 戦隊 ポッドキャスト レンジャー – Kenkyuu Sentai Podcast Rangers

研究 戦隊 ポッドキャスト レンジャー or Kenkyuu Sentai Podcast Rangers is a twice monthly podcast featuring myself, my oldest friend, and a rotating cast of supporting anchors, discussing Super Sentai, Power Rangers, and the process of turning one in to the other.

KSPR S01E12 – Weird Vampires Can Have A Little Planet as a Treat – 研究 戦隊 ポッドキャスト レンジャー – Kenkyuu Sentai Podcast Rangers

Welcome back listeners! Today we discuss contextless bullying, the boomer nightmare of leather jackets and loud gum chewing, bad video games and worse video games, and vampires (totally real). Episodes Covered: Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers s1e12 “Power Ranger Punks” & Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger 12 パパは吸血鬼!? (Papa wa Kyūketsuki!? : Papa's a Vampire!?) Research Topic: Power Rangers Video Games (part 1) Hosted by Ethan & Andrew (https://retro.social/@ajroach42), with special guest Nelson Produced by Nelson (@NelsonForYou) Kenkyuu Sentai Podcast Rangers is produced at the Ellijay Makerspace (https://ellijaymakerspace.org) in collaboration with New Ellijay Television (https://newellijay.tv). You can follow the show on the fediverse at https://meet.communitymedia.network/@kenkyuusentaipodcastrangers. The Ellijay Makerspace stands on the ancestral, unceded, stolen, and occupied lands of the Cherokee people (https://cherokee.org). Cop City will never be built; Palestine will be free. This is the audio version. You can watch the extended video version from New Ellijay Television.
  1. KSPR S01E12 – Weird Vampires Can Have A Little Planet as a Treat
  2. KSPR EPISODE 11: My Kingdom for a Sketchy Hideout on the Riverside
  3. KSPR EPISODE TEN: Please Pirate This Podcast and Anything Else You Want to Keep
  4. KSPR S01E09 – Pay No Attention To The Megazord-Sized Child
  5. KSPR – S01E08 – Real Eye Guys Realize Real Eye Lies

You can find the podcast on New Ellijay Television and you can subscribe to it via RSS or Apple Podcasts.

You can find the extended Video edition on New Ellijay Television Video on Demand, on the NETV Roku channel, or watch it here:

Why?

So, first and foremost, why am I making a podcast about Power Rangers? It started when my oldest friend posted on the only worthwhile social media platform that, if he had infinite money and mental health resources, he’d do a deep dive podcast into power rangers and super sentai.

I don’t have unlimited financial or mental health resources, but I do have a makerspace, its associated Television Network, and Big Feels about Community Media. I also have, as I recently mentioned, dedicated my days to producing media, so I decided not to wait for a hypothetical future in which we had the resources to do the thing perfectly, and I arranged conditions such that we were able to get started.

It goes a little deeper than that, though.

Super Sentai is a Japanese television program that, in many ways, was a Japanese response to American comic books (No really! We’ll get in to the way that Spider-Man shaped Power Rangers in an upcoming episode of the show, but suffice it to say that they are deeply intertwingled) and Power Rangers was an attempt at recontextualizing Super Sentai for an American audience. This kind of Transnational adaptation is fascinating to me, and several of the pieces I am working on right now start with this idea of cross-cultural adaptation and remix, exploring the good and the bad of it, as well as talking about the legal frameworks that make it less common than it otherwise might be.

(For two Excellent books on this subject from a filmic perspective take a look at How The World Remade Hollywood and The Hollywood Meme, which cover transnational film adaptation in greater detail than I will.)

There’s a lot to be said about what Power Rangers says about media production in general, and about how Power Rangers has influenced the last several generations of children!

What next?

Episodes should hit roughly bi-weekly. We’re shooting two at a time, and releasing at a cadence that affords us the grace of rest. It’s human scale media, so the episodes will come when they come, but I figure we can probably hit twice a month, right?

We’re going to dive deep on Power Rangers and Super Sentai, with a rotating cast of guests. We’ll probably use this same format to do special episodes about things like Supaidāman, the Sentai shows before Zyuranger, other Tokusatsu shows and their American counterparts (VR Troopers, BeetleBorgs, The Masked Rider), and we may even dive into the larger world of cross-cultural adaptation.

So, if you do podcasts, subscribe. If you’re on the fediverse, give us a follow. If neither of those things apply, watch the episode and share it with some friends.

This is one of several ongoing podcasts I’m involved with, including Expedition Sasquatch and Jupiter’s Ghost, and those are just the tip of a deep iceburg for the media we’re producing as part of New Ellijay Television. If this kind of thing speaks to you, consider sponsoring us.

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EXPEDITION SASQUATCH RETURNS!

Our Monthly/bi-weekly/quarterly/yearly podcast Expedition Sasquatch has just released a new episode! It’s Episode Number 13. We’ve been producing this show since early 2019, and releasing episodes since June of 2019. That’s an average of one episode every four months, although in reality it’s actually 4 episodes in 2019, no episodes in 2020, 3 episodes in 2021, and 6 episodes of 2022. We’re aiming to release an episode every two weeks or so for the foreseeable future. Check it out:

(This is not our TV show Expedition Sasquatch which is a related but independent thing)

This episode was written and edited by me, and recorded by my good friend Josh Allen.

Neither one of us has a real job anymore, and we’re trying to make our living making weird media, (and tools for making weird media) and we’d really appreciate it if you’d help.

Consider sponsoring us or buy some of our merch or just tell your friends about the show. Every little bit helps!

Synopsis

Jack is on the run from the FBI on account of two episodes ago. He makes a friend.

Credits

Sponsored by Georgia Mountain Coffee. Try the bigfoot brew, or the sasquatch select, or the jackalope joe. They’re all really good.

EXPEDITION SASQUATCH IS AVAILABLE TO YOU UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS CC-BY-SA LICENSE. MUSIC FOR THIS EPISODE IS THE WILBUR SWEATMAN JAZZ BAND (PD in the United States thanks to the Music Modernization act.) THE VOICE OF JACK IS JOSH ALLEN. WRITTEN BY ANDREW ROACH. EDITED BY ANDREW ROACH. VIDEO FOOTAGE BY RYAN STORYER.

Expedition Sasquatch will return later this week with the conclusion of this thrilling episode. If you haven’t heard from us by December 9th, start kicking things.

Subscribe to the podcast

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Sherlock Holmes 1954 TV Series

The 1954 Sherlock Holmes series is a timeless addition to New Ellijay Television’s library, offering a glimpse into the golden era of detective television. With its stellar cast, engaging stories, and pioneering production, this series is a must-watch for both aficionados of classic television and those discovering Holmes for the first time. Tune in weekly to experience Holmes (Ronald Howard) and Watson (H. Marion Crawford) as they solve crimes in a bygone era.

Based on the Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, this television series captivated audiences with 39 half-hour episodes

Watch the debut episode, “The Case of the Cunningham Heritage,” aired on October 18, 1954. The initial segment recounts Holmes ( and Watson’s first encounter, mirroring “A Study in Scarlet.” Holmes then invites Dr. Watson to join their first murder investigation. However, Inspector Lestrade jumps to conclusions, pointing fingers at the apparent suspect, Peter Cunningham’s secret bride—a “jailbird.”