Abstract
For many viewers, critics, and scholars, the irritating distractions have morphed into the main attractions. The paratext is the satellite debris orbiting and radiating out from the core text. Collectively, the paratextual cohort makes a powerful argument about reception and delivery in the digital age, where screens are as likely to be in your hand as in the living room, where the old boundaries--of time, place, and program--are dissolving before our eyes.