As it stands, the current Guinness World Record for continuous television watching is 86 hours, 6 minutes, and 41 seconds, and was set all the way back in 2010. However, it might not last much longer as an over four-day-long marathon of The Simpsons is being planned to commemorate the 500th episode of the series. Does this sound like a plot line from The Simpsons disconcertingly come to life, or is it just me?

Earlier this year, BitTorrent Inc. released an all-in-one ecosystem for BitTorrent products called Chrysalis, which allows users to — by way of using a certified application — find files using BitTorrent, then play them on a media-playing device of their choice, such as TVs, computers or mobile devices. What really makes the product convenient is that users don’t have to pay attention to the Big Three of things that prevent media from running on devices — codecs, file formats, and conversion — which anyone from the early days of modern media devices will tell you make getting that episode of Pushing Daises to properly display on your flip phone a big pain.

BitTorrent Inc. and partner and TV manufacturer Vestel are going to make using media downloaded from BitTorrent a little bit easier. Today, the duo announced the launch of a digital TV that will come with the aforementioned BitTorrent support built right in, a first of its kind.

Fox has given the greenlight for a reboot of Carl Sagan’s iconic TV series Cosmos, to be hosted by famous and well-respected astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson. The show will be produced by none other than Seth MacFarlane. Yes, Seth MacFarlane, the creator of Family Guy will be the mind behind a 13-part docu-series to air in primetime as a successor to Sagan’s original Emmy and Peabody Award winning series.

For Cosmos: A Space-Time Odyssey, MacFarlane will be working with Sagan’s original collaborators from the Cosmos: A Personal Voyage series that ran on PBS in 1980. These collaborators include Sagan’s widow writer and producer Ann Druyan, and astrophysicist Steven Soter. The National Geographic Channel will co-produce Cosmos and will air a same-night encore of the episodes after they air on Fox. The program is expected to air in 2013, which is around the same time that Fox plans to launch MacFarlane’s take on the Hanna-Barbera classic, The Flintstones.

You know how everyone in the room gets annoyed when you walk in front of the television? Well, Dave Forbes kind of, sort of has a solution to the issue, assuming you are wearing his 60-inch LED TV coat when you get up and walk in front of good Sawyer scene during your weekly Lost on Netflix viewing party. The resolution isn’t so great — only 160 x 120 — but the thing is powered by a 12V battery and can receive video input from an iPod or media player, so when you’re wearing it on the elliptical at the gym, everyone on the row of machines behind you can watch your coat instead of listen to their dubstep cardio remix playlist. The coat is made of flex boards with LEDs attached and is connected by ribbon cables and hot glued to the coat itself, while a digitizing board converts the video signals into RGB data streams in order to display the Doctor’s bow tie. In what is not even slightly a surprise, Forbes built the coat to wear at Burning Man. Head on past the break to see a few more pictures of the coat, as well as a video of the thing in action.

SoundCloud user RetroPeachy has been demaking some classic television show themes with a distinct 8-bit sound. They’re actually a lot better than the description may suggest, and include such TV favorites as The Flintstones, Miami Vice, Alf, Knight Rider and Taxi, among others. Head on past the break to give them a listen and fall deep down the nostalgia well.

Artist Stephan Tillmans’ Luminant Point Arrays is a series of photographs of tube TVs at the moment they are switched off.

The television picture breaks down and creates a structure of light. The pictures refuse external reference and broach the issue of the difference between abstraction and concretion in photography. The breakdown of the television picture discribes the breakdown of the reference. The product is self-referential photography.

David E. Kelly‘s announced Wonder Woman television show has been shopped around to networks… and nobody’s buying.

According to Deadline Kelly’s pilot script

was reportedly taken out to the broadcast networks on Wednesday night. Fox and ABC passed, while WBTV’s sister network the CW could not afford it…

This left CBS and NBC in play. I hear the CBS executive team was split, while the fluid situation at NBC where new programming chief Bob Greenblatt is yet to take the reins, made it impossible to get the type of license fee that the studio was seeking in order to do the show Kelley had envisioned.

The reason why ABC passed on the pilot is of course because of the network’s association with Disney, who are now the big media company behind Marvel comics.  ABC is currently working on three different Marvel-based television shows, and nobody wants to cross the streams of the Big Two.

Household gizmo and doo-dad store Brookstone thinks it has a solution to keep even the slovenliest of slobs from losing their remote controls or leaving them out of reach: A $30 pillow that hooks up with your TV remote, allowing you to flip through channels without ever leaving the couch, you lazy, lazy person.

The Pillow Remote Control has databases containing codes for over 500 remote control devices. Its easy-to-click fabric buttons make changing channels a breeze. Power-saving auto shutoff feature shuts off remote functions after 60 seconds of inactivity. Remote has a wide-range transmitter with infrared LED built in. A fun way to watch TV or home theater, and a real conversation-starter. Uses 2 AAA batteries (not included).

There’s also an “activate” button that lets you flip the remote itself on and off, so the pillow still retains some pillowlike functionality.

(via The Awesomer via TDW | Product page)

Last month fans jumped at the news that Disney and Marvel would be bringing two Marvel properties to the small screen, and one of them would be an Incredible Hulk show. There was, however, no official announcement from ABC television regarding Marvel’s statements. Well, now we’ve got it from an even higher source, Robert Iger, the CEO of the Walt Disney Company.

We’re developing three live-action series for ABC and ABC Family.

There’s no confirmation yet on which Marvel properties will be chosen for the TV treatment, but there are some indication of which ones are most likely.

What superhero had a beloved but campy television show in the 70′s, and then kinda fell off the non-comics radar until now, when a new show was announced to be in development?

Well, Wonder Woman.

And now the Hulk!

According to The Hollywood Reporter, The Hulk is a priority at Marvel‘s television division, which has been running along quietly since Jeph Loeb took charge.