Patiently excavating assorted skeletons from the closet of a wealthy Florida Keys clan, the series has the classy ensemble of cable network dreams – Sissy Spacek, Sam Shepard, Kyle Chandler, the marvellous Linda Cardellini, seamy scenery-chewer Ben Mendelsohn – yet isn't smothered by good taste.
The electric car battery recharging network dreamed up by former SAP executive Shai Agassi keeps winning more converts: Denmark, the mayors of San Francisco and San Jose, the state of Hawaii and, most recently, the Japanese Ministry of Environment.
While I'm sure the cash infusion would be a welcome one, it would also mean that LightSquared has one less partner at their side as they try to make their network dreams a reality.
Mutual may have been reindulging in TV network dreams or simply taking advantage of a long-standing business relationship; in either case, the broadcast rights were sold to NBC in time for the following season's games at an enormous profit.
We know that YouTube is the go-to place for silly, interesting and important videos, but these numbers are something that even TV networks dream of.
Molly, a walking, talking megaphone, delivers a speech during a class presentation — a left-leaning warning about voter complacency leading to enslavement — that attracts the notice of a local television reporter, Kate Madison (Paula Patton), a looker with major-network dreams.
Were neural networks "dreaming of electric sheep" - as one commentator suggested by making reference to Philip K. Dick's famous short story?
The internet, and YouTube in particular, is a network's dream: an Aladdin's Cave of uninformed, one-sided and aggressive gossip and commentary, all of it searchable and requiring minimal expenditure of time or money.
In the version of Zuckerberg that Sorkin wrote and David Fincher brought to the screen in "The Social Network," the dream of never needing Facebook is, in effect, his essential motive for creating it.
