Saturday, September 8, 2007

The Daily Show to get new website, full episodes online

The Daily Show to get new website, full episodes online

Well! It would be hard for them to do worse than the current website, which is an unnavigable mess of half-broken Flash.

[The new site] will archive the entire video history of the show including headlines, interviews and the “Back in Black” feature.

I would really like to know if that ‘including’ means ‘including, but not limited to’ or ‘we didn’t actually mean it when we said “entire video history” a few words ago’. However:

The portal also will present the previous evening’s episode in its entirety an hour or two after its broadcast.

I will settle for that. Not having the episodes chopped up and randomly rearranged with various parts missing is enough to make me happy. I don’t even mind if there are interstitial ads.