‘Showbizzle’ Recharges, Longer Episodes and Lessons Learned

Creative freedom is a phrase we hear quite a bit when asking creators what drew them into these precarious web series waters. Sometimes the phrase comes off as if its speaker, once free from the inhibiting chains of corporate control, will be able to deliver entertainment’s much-awaited mega-masterpiece.

There’s really a number of stories behind Showbizzle. A successful TV veteran mentoring his daughter’s development as a writer in Hollywood. For Charles Rosin, who was executive producer/showrunner for the first five seasons of Beverly Hills 90210 (the original), there was the ‘A Ha!’ moment a few years ago when ABC put up episodes of LOST on iTunes.

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