by Pat Miller on February 18th, 2009
Flush with cash from its recent $22.5 Million funding round, “attention based” media company Betawave (previously dubbed GoFish) – is bringing in Raven Symoné of the Disney Channel’s runaway tween hit That’s So Raven to star in a new web series called Raven-Symoné Presents.
The show will be centered around Raven’s fashion advice, presumably aimed at younger girls (6-17). Not much is known about the series, other than strong indications that product integration is planned for the fashion series.
Betawave Chairman Jim Moloshok told Mediaweek that “Betawave TV advertisers can opt to run traditional video spots, though the bigger opportunity lies in product integration.” He goes on to add that relevant brand campaigns could get extended beyond the web series with star Raven making cameo appearance as “a well-fashioned avatar in one of Betawave’s virtual world partners” like WeeWorld, MiniClip, and Piczo.
by Michael Shaw on February 18th, 2009
It kinda miscategorizes seniors, and it’s likely to be overshadowed by its flashy website, but the online original series 50 to Death is worth a watch, even for someone born post-Watergate. Creator Norm Golden and his fellow Upper West Side, New York City collaborators Joan Barber and Jon Freda have reached the age where they’re [...]
by Joshua Cohen on February 17th, 2009
Tonight is the debut of the first of many Big Screen Little Screen – The New York Web TV Meetup events in NYC and we’re thrilled to start things off with a conversation with Independent Film Channel. IFC was one of the early entrants from established media into the world of online original series (Getting [...]
by Marc Hustvedt on February 17th, 2009
NY-based web studio For Your Imagination announced that Warner Bros Theatrical, as part of the massive marketing push behind their upcoming The Watchmen film, has inked a sponsorship deal with the FYI’s Axis of Comedy network. As part of the six-figure deal, a handful of the Axis web series will be participating—Abigail’s Teen Diary, The Retributioners, Kyle Piccolo: Comic Shop Therapist and HungrymanTV’s Phistophicles.
Kyle PiccoloThe funding makes way for three new episodes of Kyle Piccolo, which has been known to integrate comic movies directly into the storylines before (see the series’ Dark Knight deal last summer). The three new episodes will be dubbed “3 6 9,” the first one (above) officially premieres tomorrow and will be littered with hidden Watchmen references for eager fans of the film.
Kyle Piccolo star Eric Zuckerman (right), who plays the advice spouting comic shop clerk, says that he’s really excited to have the series back up and running.
by Joshua Cohen on February 17th, 2009
In the life I live when I close my eyes, Giada De Laurentiis is my girlfriend. We eat leftovers from tapings of Everyday Italian and watch the sunset from our beachside, open-air Malibu breakfast nook while discussing in English and a variety of broken romance languages how Batali and Paltrow need to learn to keep [...]
by Lindsay Stidham on February 17th, 2009
Meet Me in the Graveyard is no exception. On first glance, you have a show primarily based with in the vlogging format familiar to lonelygirl fans and critics everywhere–an attractive young woman creating a video blog. A format that immediately sparks interest based on it’s familiarity, or perhaps the very nature of voyeurism that comes with surfing the web. I think I probably first fell in love with the girl plus diary format when watching Winona Ryder frantically keep notes about her serial killer boyfriend in Heathers.
Like Heathers the tone of Meet Me in the Graveyard is decidedly dark, albeit less comedic. Actress-producer Milly Sanders is our protagonist Viola vlogging and chatting from a mental institution when she stumbles upon Ace who is vlogging from a half way house. It’s glorious Gothic love at first site.
by Jamison Tilsner on February 16th, 2009
Fred is the most subscribed-to channel in YouTube’s history; he tops Tubemogul’s Top 50 with over 188 MILLION views. Last month alone, his shtick saw around 19 million sets of eyeballs. So, why is Fred the most famous guy you’ve never cared to know more about?
by Tim Goessling on February 16th, 2009
Hardcore action storytelling has finally made it’s way into web content. Episode one of Escape from City 17 by the Purchase Brothers hit the web last week and already scored up a million views in three days, crashing the Brothers web site, not once but twice. With it’s shocking violence and spectacular blend of live action and in game footage, the short delivers what could be the start of a potentially revolutionary series and career for the Purchase Brothers.
One really doesn’t need to have a knowledge of the Half Life universe to understand the series, but it does help. Very quick, in the first Half Life game, a portal was opened by protagonist Gordon Freeman that allowed evil aliens called “The Combine” to take over Earth. In Half Life 2 and it’s subsequent expansion packs, Freeman leads the resistance in City 17 against the alien hordes.
