Tama Leaver on the Tyrany of Digital Distance

Here in Perth we often here about how digital production models break the classic 'tyrany of distance' that has long hampered our film, television and especially animation industries. UWA's Tama Leaver has an interesting post on the way that content is effected as some markets do not get all the creative content that the original locations of products do, he uses the recent Battlestar Galaticca webisodes as an example.

There is a new show coming on in a few weeks called Jericho, interestingly it is going to get it;s Australian TV debut at the same time as the USA. Is this the way television will have to be in the future, catering to a global audience? Certainly many foriegn shows suffer in Australia becasue we can read about what happens on the internet long before the shows actually make it to our shores.