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Web 2.0 News Desk Coming to a Screen Near You – iCON
A satire of Silicon Valley ego, power and greed
By: Maureen O'Gara
Mar. 17, 2010 11:15 PM
Charles claimed in a press release that it will be "nothing less than a modern Citizen Kane." The composite centerpiece of the "scabrous satire of Silicon Valley and its most famous citizen" is a guy named Tom Rhodes. iCon, by the way, was the name of that unauthorized biography that Jobs ordered off the shelves of Apple stores. EPIX, a joint venture between Viacom, its Paramount Pictures unit, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and Lionsgate, only launched on October 30. iCON is expected to be distributed over all of EPIX' channels - cable TV, its streaming video site and its video-on-demand service. When exactly is a mystery.
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