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Stuck in a dead-end job as a receptionist, a man decides to make movies at his desk.

This is the real-life story of a receptionist gone mad. After answering phones for several years at a Los Angeles talent management office, Travis Betz could take no more. Rather than taking his frustration out on his friends and family, he channeled his energy into shooting short films at his desk during business hours. The result is a weekly online series called, The Receptionist. Using only himself and a seemingly endless amount of construction paper, Betz creates a new story about seven days and launches it onto the interwebs. Fans of the series have referred to it as the love child of David Lynch and Mr. Rogers. As the series grew, so did the construction paper world around him.

Here’s the pitch: An A-list TV producer is blacklisted by her secretary and the only work she can get is via court order.
Crewing Up is a new web series about Addie Kemp, an A-list network TV producer of a nationally syndicated political talk show, “Frankly Speaking,” who is sentenced to 500 hours [...]

Here’s a story you’ve probably heard at least two dozen times, maybe even twice today. Two young Hollywood actors are involved in the age-old balancing act of doing everything they can to get a break while earning money at day jobs to stay afloat. The part of the story you might not have heard has [...]

2009 A True Story – Episode 1_85 Days Remaining

It’s less than a year from now, America is under martial law, the Patriot Act has been expanded during the nation’s continued state of emergency, George W. Bush is still President and there’s rebel activity in the Hollywood Hills. Oh, and three major American cities have been [...]

A princess, white knight, celtic warrior, stage manager, mud wench, armorer, wizard, and some mistrels are some of the characters in Dinosaur Diorama’s newest web series, “All’s Faire,” about the adventures of a crew of some real-life Renaissance Fair goers. Writer/Producer Thom Woodley of Dinosaur Diorama, who is reportedly a “Ren Faire” expert, and Bob [...]

Machinima.com has hired the internet phenom Felicia Day to write a sitcom set in a place close to her heart–a popular video game. Five short-form episodes will eventually be combined into a half hour pilot with plans to hit the web this fall, and it’s rumored audience feedback will affect the creative direction of four [...]

Woke Up Dead is a web-based, live-action sci-fi comedy thriller about Drex, a twenty-something USC student who wakes up underwater in the bathtub one morning and suspects that he might be dead. The scripted online series, created by John Fascano, is being produced by Electric Farm and stars Jon Heder (“Napoleon Dynamite,” “Blades [...]

Tubefilter News caught up with Mary Feuer, one of the writers of the seminal web series lonelygirl15, to talk about her new web show, With The Angels, premiering next month on StrikeTV. The show brings together a slew of LG15 vets, starring Carly Jones (”Mallory” from LG15) and Sean Vincent Biggins (”Dr. Calvin Hart” from [...]