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UCLA staff has recently announced the closing of a new partnership with Clicker, aimed at discouraging students from relying on torrent sites to get access to online TV, ReadWriteWeb reports.

Following the example of other colleges in the U.S., the school’s faculty hopes that by offering students the alternative of using Clicker – a programming guide for online TV content, they will be able to significantly reduce illegal file-sharing.

Apart from providing online TV services around the campus, the partnership with Clicker is expected to have a positive impact on students’ education as well, offering them convenient access to high-quality educational content.

Launched in November 2009, Clicker provides users with access to a large database of online video content, which includes more than 400,000 episodes from around 7,000 different American TV shows. The service lists TV shows from a variety of broadcast and cable networks in the U.S., as well as Web originals.

UCLA’s collaboration with Clicker has won the appreciation of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), which didn’t hesitate to praise the school’s efforts in the media. MPAA's general counsel and chief content protection officer Daniel Mandil publicly expressed his admiration towards Clicker and UCLA for “fostering a campus culture that respects creativity and supports the livelihoods of the millions of people across the United States and around the world who create the movies and TV shows that we love, and for helping to ensure that these great jobs will be there for future college graduates."

UCLA staff is currently optimistic that students will show the same enthusiasm regarding the project and turn away from the practice of using torrent sites in the future.

I just finished interviewing Starla Huchton of The Dreamer’s Thread. It’s an amazing fantasy novel that you can listen to as a serialized book in podcast form on podiobooks with a full cast of voice actors and very great production quality.

I’m down to doing a lot of post production in getting the episode ready before I publish it. As always, you can always find my Blue Hair podcast on Rezzed.tv to listen to all episodes. This one is going to be a really good one. Stay tuned, and subscribe the book in the mean time.

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What TV shows did people search for most online during 2007? Think you can guess the top 10? Keep reading to see if you're right, or if this list holds any surprise for you. According to the search engine Lycos, these TV shows were searched for more than any other TV show during 2007:

10 Entourage
I've never heard of this show, much less watched it. I've never even overheard someone talking about it. A quick search reveals that it's on HBO. Ah, no wonder I've never seen it. I don't have HBO.

9 The Office
I saw a few minutes of this show once when I was visiting a friend. Other than that, I've never heard it talked about either. The Office was originally shown in the U.K. It's so popular that there are French, German, French Canadian, and U.S. versions of this show. Each version of The Office even has its own cast of stars. I'll have to check my TV guide and catch an episode of The Office.

8 Gossip Girl
Based solely on its name, I took an immediate dislike to this show. Reviews tell me that it's based on a series of books, and is shot in Queens, Brooklyn and Manhattan, three of the boroughs of New York City. If you're interested in the high life, beauty, and sex, this is the show for you.

7 CSI
This show focuses on criminal investigations and is focused on forensics evidence. According to Wikipedia, over 2 billion people around the world watch the many different versions of CSI crime shows.

6 Heroes
This show focuses on regular people who are empowered with special abilities that let them save innocent people around the world. You probably won't be surprised to learn that this series is based on the novels and comic books.

5 Prison Break
According to its web site, this drama is based upon the concept of a man arranging to get into prison to free his wrongly imprisoned brother. They later escape, are being hunted, and are looking for evidence to clear their names.

4 Lost
A drama based on a plane crash that occured on a desert island in the tropics and each week another story is told. This sounds like a dramatic version of the old comedy, Gilligan's Island. I'll stick with Gilligan's Island reruns.

3 Hannah Montana
I've never seen the show, but Miley Cirus has been in the news for me to know what this show is about! It's about teens! At least I think it is. I have enough problems with my own teens, thank you very much. I don't need to watch anyone else's!

2 American Idol
Ah, now we're getting somewhere. This is my favorite show, even when it stinks (like it did last season). I hope they've got better talent for us this year. If you've been living under a rock, this show is worth watching – at least a few times in your life.

It's a modern day “Gong Show.”

1 Dancing with the Stars
I never appreciated how difficult or beautiful dancing was until I saw this show. It's truly addictive. Watch it a few times and you'll be hooked – and you might even sign up for ballroom dance lessons, too!

Were You Surprised?
There we have it. The 10 Most Searched for TV Shows of 2007. I've seen three and have heard about a fourth. Were you surprised by these results? What shows did you think would make it but didn't?

Sources:
http://50.lycos.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entourage_(TV_series)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_office
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gossip_Girl_(TV_series)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSI:_Crime_Scene_Investigation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroes_tv
http://www.tv.com/prison-break/show/31635/summary.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_(TV_series)
http://abc.go.com/primetime/lost/index?pn=index

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