Newsgasm: Smith comes back to life– online

Smith was the most expensive and most-hyped new CBS series of the season. With an all-star movie cast including Ray Liotta, Virginia Madsen and Amy Smart, the show about big-time high-stakes robbers was bound to make history. And it did– as the first cancellation of the season.

But now CBS is burning off the four unaired episodes online. And they’re making an event out of this shape of things to come. The shows will be free for four weeks on CBS’ Innertube broadband site. The three episodes that already aired will also be there, so viewers can see all seven– with a minimal commercials. And because production shut down before they could bring the serialized drama to a conclusion, Smith‘s unemployed writers put together a synopsis on CBS.com, showing how producers planned to resolve the series. Warner Bros. is also selling episode downloads on various online stores. With all this activity, Smith‘s audience might even grow large enough to qualify as a cult.

–Tabloid Baby