DigVid Review: Old Nick Shows on New iTunes

Classic Nickelodeon shows now are available for download on Apple’s iTunes store, Viacom-owned Nickelodeon said Tuesday. Under the banner Nick Rewind, the number-one kids’ cable network is offering such programs as The Amanda Show, Rugrats, As Told by Ginger, Hey Dude, Rocket Power, Clarissa Explains It All and more, says Steve Youngwood, Nick’s evp of digital media. Keeping with iTunes pricing levels, Nick Rewind shows will be available for $1.99 per episode. Some full seasons and “Best Of” volumes will be available from $8.99 to $19.99.

Speaking of iTunes, now that Hulu.com is offering Dr. Horrible for free for the next four months – and I hope the Hulu powers-that-be gave Joss a big fat check for the privilege – I feel foolish for paying $5.97 to download all three episodes on iTunes. Oh well – I thoroughly enjoyed watching them all three times – and so did my sister and all the people she forwarded the series on to – so that was worth it. If you haven’t gotten on the bandwagon already, check out Doc Horrible on Hulu. The one downside: you get advertisements. And a prediction from me: this isn’t the last we’ve heard of Dr. H.

Online fan fiction site Fanlib.com on Tuesday abruptly announced that it would be shutting down come Monday. Meanwhile, PaidContent.org reported in June that Disney was buying the company, which raised $3 million in venture capital financing from H.I.G. Ventures in 2006. Apparently that deal didn’t pan out as Fanlib had hoped.

Just a brief update to let you know I’m paying attention: With three days to go before the big Yahoo! board meeting, Capital Research and Management’s Gordon Crawford is letting Yahoo! CEO Jerry Yang and Board Chairman Roy Bostock know just how annoyed he is with them and their failure to achieve a merger with Microsoft. He’s threatening to withhold votes for them on Friday, according to the New York Post. Meanwhile, oil tycoon (and recent wind and solar power advocate) T. Boone Pickens has dumped his entire stake of 10 million shares at a loss, according to the San Francisco Chronicle, which isn’t exactly helping the company’s already beleaguered stock price. “I think that Yahoo management was pathetic,” Pickens said. Hmmm, that can’t be helping Yang’s case.