by Marc Hustvedt on December 4th, 2009
Web series and online video tid-bits worth clicking today:
Compulsions Episode 4 (below) came out today, with After Judgment’s Taryn O’Neill taking a seat in Craig Frank’s empty warehouse of fun. And is it just us, or is Annemarie Pazmino the best looking office IT Tech we’ve ever seen? [Dailymotion]
Private the series is giving away a gaggle of free swag just in time to give to your 13 year-old cousin. T-shirts, novels and a signed posted from the teen queen cast. [Alloy]
Planet Green, Discovery Channel’s offshoot cable network, is launching its own daily web series, Planet 100, which will blaze through the top environmental stories of the day in 100 seconds or less. [C21 Media]
Hidden Valley Ranch is jumping in the branded entertainment scene by sponsoring NBC Universal Digital Studio’s new original web series, Garden Party, which will be getting featured placement on iVillage.com [MediaPost]
GOOD Magazine’s Big Ideas web series on Babelgum has a clever idea from high school student Gustavo Barceloni—The Energym—a human power plant that doubles as a gym. Free gym memberships for some free renewable electricity? Sounds fair to me. [Babelgum]
by Marc Hustvedt on August 11th, 2009
Alloy’s new teen drama web series Private premiered today on Teen.com, kicking off its twenty-episode foray into the web TV waters. With the prequel casting call series completed (Sanna Haynes won the role of Kiran), the scripted boarding school mystery begins. We’ve been following this series since its announcement back in May, and it stands out as one of the only stable business models for web entertainment.
Making the step into web series is a natural move for Alloy Entertainment. This is the studio behind TV’s Gossip Girl and the forthcoming The Vampire Diaries and films like Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. For parent company Alloy Media + Marketing, its entertainment arm is just a piece of its play to conquer the young adult market, a market it could be credited with redefining.
“Our lead character Reed (Kelsey Sanders) falls in love with a boy named Thomas (Brant Daugherty) and we have a short window to sell that relationship,” Bank noted. “It’s something we worked on with the writers to make the viewer has an emotional resinant experience in that time frame.”
by Marc Hustvedt on July 22nd, 2009
I’m not sure what it is that hooked me into this whole Private web series casting call, but it’s got me. Maybe it’s the “public” nature of this thing, opening up a series regular role to would-be teen stars all over the country to submit videos for why they should land the role of vicious prep model Kiran Hayes on the series. Or maybe it’s the fact that it’s a reality competition for a web series gig. Either way, it’s intriguing.
Since its announcement back in May, the producers received hundreds of videos from eligible teens before widdling down the crop to a final three (Janine, Nicole and Sanna) who were flown out to LA for a Bravo-style reality competition for the role. For judges, they’ve brought in the show’s writers, Sarah Kucserka and Veronica Becker along with Gossip Girl executive producer Bob Levy.
by Jacob Nahin on May 7th, 2009
Alloy Entertainment, known for its work on The Sisterhood of Traveling Pants and Gossip Girl, has announced that it will be putting out a web series based on, Private, the popular teen-mystery novels by author Kate Brian.
This is Alloy Entertainment’s second original web series, having recently launched its UTA-backed Haute and Bothered on Teen.com.
The Private web series will be directed by Dennie Gordon who has worked on numerous television show and the movie What a Girl Wants. The series is also being adapted by Sarah Kucserka and Veronica Becker, both of whom have written for Ugly Betty.
