by Marc Hustvedt on December 3rd, 2009
Neil Patrick Harris stars in a CBS-approved mashup video (above) of his best Barney Stinson lines from How I Met Your Mother with holiday classic Frosty the Snowman. “Frosty the Inappropriate Snowman” looks to boost interest in the network’s animated Frosty specials airing later this month. [THRfeed]
SciFinal loves sci-fi web series. The new site aims to be “one-stop shop for independent sci-fi online.” Shows like After Judgment, Zerk’s Log and Fury of Solace can all be found there, and plans for their own original series are underway. [SciFinal]
Retro-futuristic sci-fi soap opera (!) web series Space Hospital, from Second City alums Sigurd Ueland and Robert Poe, launched its second season today, promising “More Robots, More Nurses and a Whole Lot of Lovin’ [emailed release]
Another retrotastic web series Venus Spa, just ended its first season on YouTube, with a four-part finale they are calling the “Venus 4×4.” A second season is prepping for early 2010 shooting. [YouTube]
Tiger Woods heads to Google for help with his recent “transgressions” in a new gem of a screencast video. [Slate V]
Streamy Awards programs make great stocking stuffers and pretty decent bathroom reading. KoldCast TV has limited edition programs for sale from the 1st Annual show. [KoldCast.tv]
Autostraddle needs help naming their new web series starring Nat Garcia. Best options so far from their interns are ”
Veronica Belmont, the darling internet-famo host of TekZilla
by Marc Hustvedt on November 22nd, 2009
The Roku Channel Store went officially live tonight, bringing with it a whole host of original web series into the living room. Last month we speculated that this might be Web TV’s back door onto the big screens that still dominate home entertainment.
Before this, the $99 set-top box came with a sparse three options for content—Netfilx, Amazon Video on Demand, and MLB.tv. But now thousands of original web series and other videos from Blip.tv, Revision3, Mediafly, Motionbox and others are viewable for free on any Roku as part of the first 10 channels added to the store. Also added are radio podcasts from Pandora and access to photos through Flickr and Facebook Photos.
“The Roku Channel Store turns the Roku player into the world’s first open platform designed specifically for the TV,” said Roku’s CEO Anthony Wood. “Now content producers and distributors – from single person shops to billion dollar corporations – can deliver their content directly to consumers without having to go exclusively through cable operators, satellite networks or TV affiliates.”
Technically, Roku says the platform is an open one, with developers able to craft their own applications for the store via a free SDK. That said, there aren’t any yet that allow for streaming access to network TV shows—like Hulu.com or Sling players.
by Marc Hustvedt on September 9th, 2009
Veronica Belmont is a self-proclaimed ‘newbie foodie’. Kudos to VendrTV host Daniel Delaney for getting the venerable web series host of TekZilla and Qore to branch out and eat some weird food. We on the other hand, are repressed a bunch food snobs and Tubefilter may very well spin off a food blog to deal with this problem.
The latest episode of the street food stalking web series has the NY-based Delaney heading to San Francisco, arguably the country’s foodie mecca, to meet up with ‘Spencer on the Go’, a french restaurant’s mobile noms truck. Being French that means plenty of weird ‘delicacies’—paté de foie gras (fattened goose liver), escargot (snails) and some fungus pastry. Belmont was a champ, sucked it up and downed the escargot-on-a-stick for our entertainment.
