Posts with tag myspace
Posted Aug 19th 2008 4:21PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Web, Celebrities, Reality-Free
Have you thought about creating a MySpace page but thought it was too general and want to make something that's a little more focused, something that celebrates something you're really interested in? You might want to join
HoffSpace.
It's the new social network from David Hasselhoff. The
Baywatch/
Knight Rider/
America's Got Talent star has set up a network on his site where fans from around the world can network with each other. Well, I don't think he actually set it up. I doubt he's in front of his computer at midnight doing HTML and making sure the servers are up, but it's on his site (if you're wondering,
hoffspace.com is already taken by someone else).
Continue reading David Hasselhoff has created his own Space
Posted Jul 30th 2008 12:23AM by Isabelle Carreau
Filed under: OpEd, Episode Reviews, America's Got Talent
(S03E07) "Dreams come true on America's Got Talent" - The HoffDreams not only come true on
AGT but they are also crushed (and, let's face it, it's a good thing that some dreams are crushed on the show because some acts are just plain wrong). This week,
MySpace devotees faced off against the judges and the crowd in the hope that their dreams would come true. Does MySpace have talent? Let's review the final auditions of the season.
Continue reading America's Got Talent: Episode 307
Posted Jul 10th 2008 3:22PM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: Industry, Programming, Celebrities, Reality-Free
It looks like the Krofft brothers Sid and Marty
will soon be on MySpace. The 70's icons will soon be putting their programming on MySpaceTV.
This will include their classic shows such as
H.R. Pufnstuf,
The Bugaloos and
Land of the Lost and will be exclusively shown on the social-networking platform. V.P. of Marketing at MySpace Josh Brooks sees the collaboration as an example of how the site will mine pop-culture nostalgia to build audiences.
The license includes full episodes as well as condensed three to five minute versions (called "Kwikies") and pre-taped messages from the Kroffts themselves. The Krofft branded channel can be found at
myspace.com/Krofft.
I remember watching the Krofft shows as a kiddie. Why are condensed versions of the shows necessary for this channel? Are they really that bad when watched at normal length as an adult? Perhaps nobody has time to watch a full episode anymore. Shows like
Electra Woman and Dyna Girl can only be appreciated when watched at full length.
Posted Jul 9th 2008 11:22AM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: Industry, Programming, Family Guy, Celebrities, Reality-Free
Along with running three shows on Fox (
Family Guy,
American Dad and
The Cleveland Show), Seth McFarlane is also getting into online content development. Even worse,
he's doing it for a Fox competitor.
McFarlane will be developing fifty two-minute animated vignettes for
Seth McFarlane's Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy which will be distributed via Google's AdSense network (a competitor for Fox's Myspace).
The article goes into the corporate issues behind this strange move and asks a few good questions: why didn't Fox get a first-look offer at this idea? If they did, why did they pass on it? It seems inexpensive enough to produce and given the popularity of the creator, it seems a no-brainer.
Continue reading As if Seth McFarlane didn't have enough to do...
Posted May 17th 2008 9:02AM by Kristin Sample
Filed under: News, TV Royalty, Web, Celebrities, Reality-Free
And
90210 makes the news again this week! But I don't mind because I can never get enough
Bevelry Hills, 90210 (or
Bev as I affectionately call it).
Ian Ziering will be developing webisodes with social-networking titan MySpace. These web shorts will be based on
Man Vs. Monday, a film Ziering directed, produced and even starred in two years ago. The webisodes will be about an office slacker who has trouble getting through his Mondays after his crazy weekends.
Why the choice to develop the shows with MySpace? "In the entertainment industry there remains one constant: change. I believe the digital world presents tremendous opportunities for the producers who understand it, and I am launching a digital production company, iMan Productions, to take advantage of this opportunity," Ziering told a press conference. Is he on to something here?
Ziering will also star opposite Heather Graham and Jerry O'Connell in the comedy
Baby on Board to be released later this year.
Posted Nov 8th 2007 2:02PM by Liz Finn-Arnold
Filed under: Industry, Programming, Web
Marshall Herskovitz and Ed Zwick are responsible for creating some of my favorite TV shows:
thirtysomething,
My So-Called Life, and
Once and Again. They've influenced my writing and even my desire to write for TV probably more than anyone else in Hollywood. They've been absent from the TV landscape for a couple of years, and I've definitely missed them.
Luckily,
Herskovitz and Zwick are back with a brand new series, called
quarterlife. The series, however, will not currently be available on ABC or any other network. Herskovitz and Zwick are bringing this new series to life on the web. And in
a recent L.A. Times item, Herskovitz explains why they've left traditional television behind.
Herskovitz believes "the business of television has become an exclusive club, closed to new members," which has some producers "turning to the internet to have a voice."
Continue reading Thirtysomething co-creator explains reasons for leaving TV
Posted Oct 20th 2007 8:36AM by Brad Linder
Filed under: PVR Wire, Web
Remember
Sony's Minisode Network? Basically Sony is sitting on a huge library of television episodes that don't see much airtime anymore. So the company decided to slice up classic TV shows like
Charlie's Angels, and
T.J. Hooker and create 5 minute "minisodes."
The interesting thing is that the cliff notes versions of these shows work surprisingly well, if you don't care about things like plot, character development, and dialog.
The minisodes were originally available online at MySpace. Now Sony is making the mini-shows available on
Crackle,
AOL, and
Joost, as well as
MySpace. Sony is also bringing more shows out of the vault including
Bewitched,
I Dream of Jeannie and
The Jeffersons.[via
The New York Times]
Posted Oct 18th 2007 11:01PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: OpEd, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Episode Reviews
(S03E10) Most fans of
It's Always Sunny have probably seen this episode already, since it was the one that was on
the show's MySpace site from early summer until a few weeks ago. After watching it again, I can see why the boys decided to share this episode early: not only is it representative of exactly what people love about the show, but everyone got a meaty story to play. In other words, it's the best episode of the season so far.
I mean, how can you
not like an episode that involves chain saws, squeaky clown shoes, pimps that love
Fraggle Rock, tranny bulges, and severed heads in a fridge?
Continue reading It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: Mac is a Serial Killer
Posted Sep 11th 2007 8:38AM by Liz Finn-Arnold
Filed under: OpEd, NYTVF
I entered the
NYTVF panel discussion about advertising with some trepidation. After all, I love TV, but I hate commercials. In fact, I'm in love with my DVR because it allows me to fast forward through all that garbage. And I really love watching my shows on DVD because I don't have to worry about about commercials at all.
However, I also realize that much of my beloved television programming (and now) internet content wouldn't be possible without the support of its sponsors. Advertising is an unfortunate necessary evil. For bloggers it means the difference between getting paid (like here at TV Squad) or diligently toiling away without any compensation with the unselfish commitment of a
Harry Potter house elf.
Continue reading NYTVF: Digital Frontiers in the Advertising Markeplace
Posted Aug 29th 2007 4:01PM by Brad Linder
Filed under: Industry, PVR Wire, Web
NBC and News Corp have announced a name for
their YouTube competitor.
Hulu doesn't seem to stand for much of anything, but it's "
short, easy to spell, easy to pronounce, and rhymes with itself."
Since hulu is positioned as an alternative to YouTube, I suppose they're tied with YouTube for syllables, and have a slight edge in the number of letters. As for content, right now, there's nothing. Hulu is accepting e-mail addresses from anyone interested in signing up for a private beta, which will launch in October.
Continue reading Hulu is NBC and News Corp's answer to YouTube
Posted Jul 24th 2007 7:31PM by Richard Keller
Filed under: Celebrities, Jericho, Casting
Get ready for a new face or two when Jericho (a.k.a -- The Little Show That Could) returns to the CBS primetime schedule early next year. One of those faces will be Esai Morales'.
The former NYPD Blue and Vanished star will appear in a recurring role for six of the seven episodes that have been ordered for the new season. Hmm, in the real world that would seem like a regular rather than occurring role. Semantics aside, Morales will play Colonel Hoffman, a career military officer and Iraq War veteran who has not seen or heard from his wife since the day of the attacks.
Continue reading Esai Morales moving from New York to Jericho
Posted Jul 12th 2007 4:20PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Programming
Fox
has announced that the final two episodes of
Drive will be on the show's
MySpace page starting on Monday, July 16th. The network had originally scheduled those episodes for air on July 4th, then bumped them to July 13th, then flat-out took them
off the schedule, much to the frustration of the few surviving fans of
Drive.
After you watch the last two episodes, which will likely not provide any sort of closure, check out
this post from Isabelle detailing what the producers wanted to happen to the story if the series had lived on. Unfortunately, the producers don't say who would've won... maybe even they didn't know yet.
Posted Jun 26th 2007 11:42AM by Joel Keller
Filed under: OpEd, Scrubs, Celebrities
Gotta hand it to Zach Braff; he's probably one of the most wired celebrities out there. He was one of the first celebs (besides our very own
Wil Wheaton, of course) to maintain a blog, and he seems to be well aware of whatever internet buzz is flying around about him or
Scrubs.
So it's no surprise to see him respond to the reports from
Gawker, Radar Online, and other sites about how he's been tomcatting around New York this summer, seemingly talking up a different woman every night. On the latest entry in his
blog (which is also on his
MySpace page), he wonders why the tabloid coverage of him is saying that he's being a jerk:
Continue reading Zach Braff says he's not a jerk
Posted Jun 19th 2007 1:37PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Watercooler Talk, The Office, Celebrities
Sweet Jenna Fischer, who plays Pam on
The Office, is blogging once again. She took a bit of a hiatus after
breaking her back last month while walking down a marble staircase. She tells the whole story
here on her MySpace page (which she shares with her alter-ego, Pam Beesly).
Of course, Jenna is extremely grateful to all the fans for their 'Get Well' wishes and also for those who donated to her favorite cause, animal rescue. She has links to
kitty and
doggie rescues on her site.
Continue reading Jenna Fischer's blogging with a broken back
Posted Jun 1st 2007 1:05PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Video, How I Met Your Mother
If you don't watch
How I Met Your Mother but are curious about why we all love it so damn much, I suggest you watch the "Slap Bet" episode. It was the one that got me hooked. And,
as Joel said, it was "one of the funniest half-hours of comedy on TV in 2006". The entire episode is on the HIMYM official
MySpace page and it's also embedded after the jump inside this post.
Why is it so funny? Hmmm. Let me count the ways. Uh... only because there's face-slapping. And Robin Sparkles. Those two elements alone make it legen...wait for it...dary!
Continue reading Here's the best episode of How I Met Your Mother - VIDEO
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