The Real Deadwood Podcast Blog

The big news over the last few days is that Deadwood will not start its third season in March as was originally scheduled, but will be delayed until June so that a new show produced by Tom Hanks called Big Love, about a polygamist with three wives, can get the Sunday at 10:00 spot right after The Sopranos that Deadwood was supposed to have. Instead Deadwood will itself be a lead-in at 9:00 for new episodes of Entourage and another new show, Lucky Louie. We hate the delay but we love the earlier time slot. Now the only place to come for your weekly Deadwood fix until June is the Real Deadwood Podcast.

I figured out how to get into multiple categories in iTunes, so now we're in

• Arts & Entertainment
• Audio Blogs
• Movies & Television
• News
• Talk Radio
• Travel

That's because the Real Deadwood Podcast brings all this and more every week. I also registered with iPodder.org in multiple categories today. Many more to come.

Last night iTunes listed the podcast in their directory. I have changed my mind about the category — I want to change from "Travel" to "News" since I think that reflects the content better, plus "News" gets front page billing and "Travel" doesn't. I added a button to the website pages that takes the user directly to the podcast page in iTunes for easy subscription. Now it's up to you to click that button and get iTunes to start paying attention to us.

Last night I submitted the podcast to iTunes and now I'm waiting for them to approve it. I put it in the "Travel" category since it's promoting the town of Deadwood as a tourist destination and all-around cool place.

Today I'm completing the packaging of the DVD I've created from footage of the HBO Deadwood actors during their visit this summer. I'm sending it to them as a remembrance of the fun we had when they were here. I'm also hoping they'll show it to cast and crew members who weren't able to make the trip in hopes they will come next summer. At the end I've included a message informing them of the podcast and asking them if they'd be willing to be a guest via Skype. They won't finish shooting season 3 until Feb-Mar so they may be too busy to respond until then. We'll see what kind of response I get.