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Amazon.com is getting in on the internet video craze. According to AdAge, next month it's launching Amazon Digital Video, a service that will make full-length movies and television shows available for download. There are reportedly two ways to pay for the service: 1) a subscription and 2) pay-per-view. No word yet on what the cost per episode or per movie will be. Apparently, Amazon was planning to focus on selling downloadable music but decided that iTunes has cornered that market. Video, on the other hand, is still fresh and new. While iTunes does offer a significant amount of video, it does not offer movies and the television offerings are somewhat limited (although more are becoming available every day). No word yet on which television shows will be available for download off Amazon.

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For those who may have missed the post-Super Bowl episode of Grey's Anatomy this week (and haven't yet downloaded a torrent of said episode), you're in luck. ABC will be re-airing the show this Thursday at 9PM ET, replacing the episode of Crumbs that would've normally aired at that time, and shortening ABC News' Primetime by a half hour. Hopefully, this time, your DVRs won't be confused.

Writers of The L Word are including the show's fans in a very unique way. They've started a 'fanisode' contest where fans team up with writers to script an episode one scene at a time. Each week, the writers will announce a scene mission on their website and fans create it. Then fans vote on which submissions they like the best. It's a process that repeats itself each week until an entire episode is created out of fan-chosen and fan-created scenes. However, writers are not guaranteeing that the particular episode will air.

The fans whose scenes are elected will receive prizes, mostly in the form of gift certificates or a piece of schwag from The L Word set. At the end of the competition, which is March 31, one of the previous winners will be randomly chosen for e-mail mentoring from one of The L Word's writers and a $1,000 gift certificate to Saks.

Apparently one must be on his toes to catch new episodes of Everybody Hates Chris. The show started going into reruns in November, but they did manage to sneak a new Christmas episode in. However, after that it looked as if it was back to repeats again. I kept an eye on the TV schedule, and sure enough, it was repeat after repeat. That is, until last week when a new episode aired and I totally missed it. TV.com has a summary of the episode, which, by the way, is not even mentioned on UPN's site for the show. This week the episode is a repeat yet again, but the week after that, February 2 to be exact, there will be yet another new episode. I'm all over that one, I promise.