Showtime Starts a MySpace Blog for L Word Actor

Ask and ye shall receive, eh? Just the other day I blogged that HBO was making the wrong move by blogging from a character’s perspective instead of giving the actor who plays her a voice.

Well, HBO hasn’t exactly heard my call yet, but Daniela Sea from Showtime’s The L Word - which is one of my favorites - is now blogging about her experiences playing transgendered Moira/Max in the third season that just wrapped up. Showtime is also podcasting about the show, with actor and director interviews.

There still are some ways that they could improve their blog presence. For one, the blog is a MySpace blog, and the entries aren’t exactly real time. They were written during the shooting, but not published until the season was airing. Still, given that they have an actress blogging rather than a character, I’d still say that Showtime doing pretty good in the blogosphere.

My constructive criticisms to them are:

• Move the actor blog over to their real site and host it with Movable Type. Having a presence on MySpace is fine, but don’t use their blogging software, as it’s lame.
• Have other actors jump onboard to start blogging about their experiences during the off season and the shooting of season four.
• Get Erin Daniels to do a post about her decision to leave and about the breast cancer storyline. That will drive some serious traffic.
• If you haven’t already, thank the fans who started a podcast (iTunes).
• Pay more attention to the blogosphere. If you’re going to be engaging bloggers on your own site, and starting your own blog, then you need to be commenting on other people’s blogs, or at the very least responding to their blog posts on your blog. A good way to start would be to pay attention to posts that are tagged l_word on Technorati, to get a sense of what the blogosphere is saying about the show.

Any more recommendations for Showtime, dear readers?