Brief Wondrous Poll

[coalescent]

Poll

Inspiration here; I suspect I'm being atypical again.

In other news: British people! ITV are showing the first episode of Pushing Daises tomorrow evening at 9pm. (At least, according to Front Row they are; I haven't checked an actual schedule.) You should watch this. It is much better than Doctor Who, I promise.

Comments

[coalescent]

I read it before publication

Ah, but before US or UK publication?

[coalescent]

Not snotty at all, don't worry! The "some other country" question was purely because I know I have some people reading who wouldn't have an option to click otherwise. I've certainly been waiting for the UK edition pretty eagerly ... now I just have to hope it lives up to the billing.

[iainjclark]

Fortunately Pushing Daisies doesn't have to be better Doctor Who as it's on at a different time. Hey, I might finally get around to trying it!

[frandowdsofa]

I would say it's not an issue with the sf community, it's a bigger issue. I didn't even pick up that all the Pulitzers had been announced, the only ones I saw anything about were the sweep by the Washington Post. (And I must admit, I still think of it mainly as a professional set of awards for journalism.)

Given that it was only announced last Monday, though, I wouldn't expect to see much detailed coverage until the weekend broadsheets.

[coalescent]

The fact that British readers by and large don't know it doesn't surprise me in the least -- it's only been out over here about a month, and it hasn't had anything like the review coverage it got in the States. Which is why I split the poll out the way I did.

[brixtonbrood]

I was really surprised that a) you thought that British people wouldn't have heard of it and b) you appear to be right because I knew loads about it and thought it sounded great if I was feeling strong enough emotionally.

But then when I thought about it I realised that all my knowledge comes from a unanimous rave on Newsnight Review while I was stacking the dishwasher. (Highly informative though - I'd never have figured Michael Gove for a teen D&D player, though perhaps I should have)

There seem to have been a fair few people reading it on the Tube though.

[kate_nepveu]

Ditto re: Washington Post & award-for-journalism.

[the_gardener]

Is Pushing Daisies more or less better than Dead Like Me?

[coalescent]

Pushing Daisies >> Dead Like Me. But for calibration, I wasn't a huge fan of DLM. It was ok.

[coalescent]

Well, it only won on Monday! So you can put it out now. ;-)