Mul-ti-pass!

This is some seriously sweet news--the iTunes Music Store (iTMS) is now offering the Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report (links open up the iTunes software). But, even better, you can sign up for a monthly "multi-pass" to get all the episodes, rather than paying $1.99 per shot. From iLounge:

The Multi-Pass costs $9.99 and allows iTunes users to subscribe to a specific show in order to get future episodes automatically. The Multi-Pass for the two Comedy Central shows will get you the most recent episode and the next 15 new episodes. The new episodes will be downloaded automatically as they become available.

Mrs. F and I have been getting by with the drips and drabs (some might say dribs and drabs, but not me) of both shows from the Comedy Central site (see here for Daily Show and Colbert Report clips), since we've gone to what I like to call sharecropper cable (just the local stations, plus CSPAN). But I do miss getting to watch the whole flow of the show (the clips aren't sequenced in proper order, so there's a bit of hunting and pecking at times). So I might well try one of these subscriptions, and hope that iTunes offers more like it (say... Keith Olbermann's Countdown).

[UPDATE - 11am PST] Speaking of the PC/TV convergence, here's a tidbit from today's Studio Briefing (posted at IMDB) on my favorite annual sporting event--the first two days of the NCAA basketball tournament:

CBS is planning live webcasts of the early-round games of the NCAA basketball tournament -- "March Madness," as it is called -- beginning March 16 via its website, cbssportsline.com.. The games will be available for free and include commercials, but because of the limitations of broadband broadcasting, only a few hundred thousand viewers will be able to watch them at the same time. When capacity is reached, additional viewers will be placed in a "waiting room" showing a scoreboard and an estimate of how long they'll have to wait. CBS said that it had been able to find eighteen major advertisers to sponsor the webcasts.

Studio Briefing also notes a newly announed Toshiba laptop--the Qosmio G30--that can display HDTV either on its own monitor or on a home-theater system; it should be available starting next month.