by Angelique Toschi on January 11th, 2010
What if someone gave you the chance to start over? That is the question asked in the new lonelygirl15: The Show Is Yours Season 2 trailer. While knowing that this will have something to do with the mythology of the lonelygirl franchise, this is also a question that could be asked to anybody in their teens or older. We all have things we wish we had done differently, better, or not at all. There are always circumstances beyond our control that are not to our liking. Not one person can say that, given the chance, they wouldn’t want to “start over”.
By asking this question Austin McConnell, the producer of LG15: Outbreak and a dedicated lg15 community member, is making an immediate connection with his audience and allowing them to put themselves in his young protagonist’s shoes. By doing this there is hope that LG15: Outbreak not only will cater to the already established community of LG15 fans, but also to a wider, newer audience that has yet to be introduced to the mythology.
From the trailer alone it appears that LG15: Outbreak will be a return to the roots of lonelygirl15, which started with a girl vlogging from her bedroom. Although very little of the story has been revealed thus far, what has been seen has shown exceptional production quality, what can be assumed to be visuals of the main characters, and a lot of questions that will, hopefully, be answered as the story unfolds.
by Marc Hustvedt on December 29th, 2009
LG15: This Show is Yours is coming back next month as EQAL announced the winner of its fan contest to continue the original lonelygirl15 storyline in a blog post by EQAL’s Miles Beckett and Greg Goodfried naming LG15: Outbreak the season 2 premiering January 11. The trailer for the “8-week interactive thrill ride” is above. But it looks like the fun may have already started as a reversed clip of the same trailer has some hidden messages in it. [LG15.com]
Sports and cute girls have mixed well for ages, so why stop now? Sportz Nutz returned for its second season this week starring two attractive and knowledgeable post-college sports buffs Susannah Collins and Sam Raddock breaking down the college football bowl matchups from the Army-Navy tailgate. Who knew nitrous oxide was still popular? [YouTube]
Safety Geeks SVI wrapped up their first season releasing their 13-minute finale Ep. 11 “A Strange Sucking Sound” on KoldCast (below) and YouTube last week. The bumbling (and sexy) P.O.S.H. team, including calendar queen Brittney Powell and creators Tom Konkle and Dave Beeler seem to have nabbed their safety violator and tied up loose ends, for now. [Daveandtom.com]
by Marc Hustvedt on July 30th, 2009
Web studio EQAL, which now likes to call itself a social entertainment company, is taking a big step into the platform game today. The company announced today (at Twiistup in Los Angeles) it is rolling out a consumer version of their core social website platform that they are calling Umbrella.
This tool will allow independent producers, celebrity talent and online personalities to create their own Web site and develop an audience on the Internet using the same enterprise-grade platform that powers EQAL’s premium partner Web sites, but with simplified publishing and a clean, user-friendly management interface. (from the annoucement)
These guys built their brand around creating not only the first breakout episodic drama (lonelygirl15) but the social community that formed around it.
by Marc Hustvedt on June 14th, 2009
Well you can’t blame them for trying. YouTube continues trying to make some order from the chaos of 100+ million videos it has, adding a “Web Originals” category to its new Shows sections. The name isn’t great – aren’t the majority of YouTube videos web originals? Aside from that, it’s sporting a grand total of 14 web series right now. (14?!?)
Granted, this may be an early preview of the new section, but so far the list is anything but compete. The only common thread between the group is they all are YouTube partners, which might be a prerequisite for inclusion. On the list so far: Fred , Smosh, Prom Queen, The Guild (season 1), Roadents, University of Andy, Arby ‘n’ The Chief, Gemini Division, Affirmation Girl, WineLibraryTV.
by Marc Hustvedt on June 12th, 2009
Is mid-range web TV too risky?
The middle ground of web television, somewhere in between homebrew video blogs and high-end celeb-laden studio series, appears to be murky waters. The closing of digital studios 60Frames and maniaTV stand as somber reminders that web television is still shuffling to find its business model. And it’s boiling down to cost structure according to EQAL co-founder Greg Goodfried. EQAL
EQAL, founded by Goodfried along with Miles Beckett, is of course the web studio that made its mark with arguably the most successful dramatic web series to date, lonelygirl15, setting themselves up for top seat in the serialized drama space. Follow-up series like LG15: The Resistance, Bebo-backed KateModern and Polish-lonelygirl spinoff n1ckola basically locked up the genre for the venture-backed studio.
by Pat Miller on March 31st, 2009
EQAL, the social entertainment company behind hit web series like lonelygirl15 and KateModern, announced recently that they had partnered with Nagoya-based TV and radio advertising company Shinto Tsushin to bring dubbed versions of lonelygirl15 and KateModern to Japan and to produce an original LG15 series set in Japan.
The show – and its side stories KateModern (starring the Streamy-nominated Tara Rushton), LG15: The Resistance, and Polish-speaking n1ckola – are all centered around a group of young women with rare physical properties that make them the target of a mysterious organization. It was the LG15 shows that established EQAL’s reputation for mixing TV production with social networking websites – the whole series feels kind of like an alternate reality game.
by Drew Baldwin on January 5th, 2009
With all the lonelygirl15 imitators popping up again and again, it’s no surprise that the folks at EQAL have decided to further capitalize on the webcast phenom with a new contest called LG15: The Show Is Yours, where producers submit a 5-minute pilot and 8-week treatment for “social show” derivative of the LG15 Universe by building upon the mythology of lonelygirl15, KateModern, and LG15: The Resistance.
According to inside LG15, the official LG15 insider blog, a social show is defined as “an experience on a website where a community participates in a specific entertainment property by viewing and discussing videos and other multimedia content, and
by Tubefilter News on August 1st, 2008
Rewind of the week on Tubefilter News – top stories in case you missed them. This week was all about the ladies of web television: Felicia Day (The Guild, Dr. Horrible), Illeana Douglas (Easy To Assemble), Eden Riegel (Imaginary Bitches), Jessica Rose (Sorority Forever), Justine Bateman (Candy, Inc.) and more. There’s no question that that [...]
