by Pat Miller on March 5th, 2009
If you answered C, you’ll be stoked to know that long-time gaming comedy group LoadingReadyRun will let you do exactly that via their newest addition to their menagerie of web shows, a sitcom called commodoreHUSTLE.
commodoreHUSTLE centers around the lives of a group of eight eccentric friends – Graham Stark, Paul Saunders, Jeremy Petter, James Turner, Bill Watt, Matt Wiggins, Morgan vanHumbeck, and Kathleen De Vere – and the ways they deal with the mundane. Episode 1, for example, is titled “Laundry” – and, sure enough, initial plot conflict starts out with a simple load of laundry. By the end of the fifteen-minute episode, however, we’ve watched the members of LoadingReadyRun navigate through technology mishaps, crazy bar nights, and decide that they’re going to commit to this whole web comedy thing, which is something they’re actually doing as a comedy group.
by Joshua Cohen on March 5th, 2009
Here’s an easy guide to judging the entertainment value of a web series: If the plot revolves around the psychosomatic effects of a knife that looks comfortable in the hands of Paul Hogan entering the heroine’s brain, it’s going to be good. If said heroine is played by a New Zealand stuntwoman whose beaten on [...]
by Alex Crowley on March 5th, 2009
Given the success of our Conversation with IFC, I’m ecstatic to announce our next event…. A Curated Screening with College Humor TV …featuring… Ricky Van Veen, Founder and Editor Sam Reich, Director of Original Programming Jake Hurwitz, Writer and Star Amir Blumenfield, Writer and Star When: March 19, 2009 6:30 PM Where: DROM @ 85 [...]
by C.J. Arabia on March 5th, 2009
After his strike videos hit the internet, “my agent Marc Gordon suggested I have my own talk show on-line,” he added. The pair pitched around some ideas and eventually came up with the Anytime 5-minute talk show concept. If you’re looking for quirkiness of Between Two Ferns, you’re not going to get that. However, you will see a funny bit followed by a funny and often awkward interview with a high profile celebrity guest, like Christina Applegate, John Stamos, Neil Patrick Harris, Kat Von D and many other people you would normally have to turn on your television to see.
by Michael Shaw on March 4th, 2009
What kind of twisted experience must director Noah Harald have endured to inspire the anti-heroine of Lila Carter? As the Starlet, Lila takes the remorseless, manipulative, sleep-with-anyone-who-gets-me-to-the-next-rung starlet cliché to a whole new plateau, all with winking Southern affectations. It took me a while to figure out the facial resemblance, but Ellie Gerber’s Lila has [...]
by Jamison Tilsner on March 4th, 2009
We’ve heard the calls for more information and transparency from The Streamy Awards and The International Academy of Web Television. Our principal goal has been to build a credible organization and ceremony to properly acknowledge the innovation and achievement we’ve witnessed in this growing industry and medium. We acknowledge that, in the hectic process of [...]
by Reed Kavner on March 4th, 2009
Apparently the global recession hasn’t eliminated all of the good jobs. The tourism commission of Queensland, Australia is looking to fill the position of “the best job in the world.” And it really is. Tourism Queensland is looking for a live-in caretaker of “luxurious Hamilton Island in the Great Barrier Reef”, whose duties include documenting [...]
by Marc Hustvedt on March 4th, 2009
Updates on the Streamy Awards! It’s March and the super duper fantastic live awards show is fast approaching. Today we’re announcing the list of inaugural members of the International Academy of Web Television, the body that will ultimately be voting on the finalists and winners of the Streamys. Well, that’s except for the Audience Choice Award which of course will be open to the public voting starting next week.
The idea behind the Academy is that we feel the best way to recognize the best in web television is from a body of peers combined with the support of the general public. So to that end, the final nominees in each of the 25 award categories are chosen by Academy members with one automatic finalist in each one based on the top submitted entry during the public nominations period. It’s a hybrid approach.
