Marshall Herskovitz’s first glitter of stardom came with the creation of thirtysomething – a dramatic television series revolving around the angst-ridden lives of restless tercegenarians. Three years after that hit show ended, he would follow it up My So-Called Life – a dramatic television series revolving around the angst-ridden lives of restless teenagers. Last [...]
Penn Jillette is a funny man: raw, no-nonsense, tell-it-like-it-is funny. That’s probably not news to those of you who are fans of his Las Vegas magic/comedy show Penn & Teller or his Emmy-nominated Showtime hit Penn and Tell: Bullshit!. But for those of us who are seeing those wide-rimmed glasses and curly long hair for [...]
Live video online has really taken off, as Sarah Meyers explored on her new show, Pop17, but truly interesting applications of this state-of-the-art technology are few and far between. Using the ingenuous Mogulus platform, which creates a fully-functioning television studio within an internet-browser, For Your Imagination internet-TV studio has created the perfect noontime snack.
Live@FYI showcases [...]
In a New York Times Magazine article from way back in November, 2006, author Matthew Klam discussed how super-cool it was that traversing the rigmarole of Hollywood was no longer necessary to gain stardom. With YouTube and the falling price of professional-grade production equipment, the talented and motivated could make a name for themselves [...]
Jeannie Tate, the boisterous soccer mom who hosts a talk show from her minivan, has single-handedly given new meaning to the idea of “mobile entertainment.” The self-proclaimed super-mom incoporates a talk show into her daily routine as she whizzes around town picking up her dry-cleaning and dropping the boys off at soccer practice.
The brain-child of Liz [...]
TMZ.com, the AOL-owned celebrity gossip site featuring a branded video section powered by Brightcove has just announced a partnership with MySpace. The MySpace internet-TV platform features exclusive, expensive content like those scantily clad Roommates and a lot of lesser-known non-exclusive content like TilzyTV.
I’d show the classic TMZ moment with this Lakers forward, but TMZ has [...]
For the bizzare animated sketches of The Meth Minute 39, New York-based artist Dan Meth combines flash-based graphics with a style drawn from the past three decades of adult and children’s cartoons. After his viral advertising campaigns with catchy, kitschy tunes caught the eye of animation heavyweight Fred Seibert (especially Shofar Idol), Dan soon joined [...]
A great figure of our time once said that “making teenagers depressed is like shooting fish in a barrel.” And come to think of it, I’m pretty sure it was Bart Simpson.
We all know that teenagers have a dark side and, throughout the history of television – from the Little Rascals to Dennis the Menace [...]
