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Posted Nov 11th 2009 1:02PM by John Scott Lewinski
Filed under: Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, Programming, Reality-Free, Webisodes
There are plenty of sci-fi TV shows made up in Canada. The
Stargate series comes out of Vancouver -- as does
Fringe. There's a proud ongoing fantasy tradition deeply rooted up there.
But, the
city's local newspaper insists the best show in production in Canada's Pacific Southwest isn't on broadcast TV. It's a web series called
Riese. The Steampunk-themed action series is set in another time in the kingdom of Eleysia. The title character (Christine Chatelain) battles through the countryside with a wolf avenging the death of her family.
She's fighting off a crazed, fundamentalist religious group -- the Sect. So, you can set your watch by how long the tunnel-vision crew over at
Big Hollywood jumps on
Riese as some sort of attack on traditional religion. (It's not.)
Continue reading Is Canada's best science fiction TV show not on TV?
Posted Dec 6th 2008 9:29AM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Late Night, Talk Show, Reality-Free
Next year marks a changing of the guard for Conan O'Brien from
Late Night to
The Tonight Show. It'll be an easy transition for the fair-skinned one since he's already got a recipe for success: a die-hard audience, smart and inventive writers and puppets that curse.
The real challenge will be for Jimmy Fallon, Conan's
Late Night successor, who hasn't had much TV time since he left
Saturday Night Live for a movie career that made Chevy Chase's lineup look Lawrence Olivier-ian.
Variety reports that Fallon will first test the airwaves' waters instead of doing a full-blown cannonball by starring in some "webisodes" on
NBC.com starting Monday.
Continue reading Jimmy Fallon gears up for late night gig
Posted Apr 3rd 2008 3:43PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Programming, Web, 30 Rock, Chuck, WGA Strike, Reality-Free
As part of
yesterday's fall schedule announcement, NBC also debuted its plans for online content. Beginning this summer,
NBC will produce short, original episodes -- webisodes -- of
The Office,
Chuck, and
Heroes. NBC isn't saying much about what these webisodes will entail, but NBC Universal co-chair Ben Silverman promises they'll be meaty. He said the new WGA contract allows NBC writers to go all-out with the work, without wondering whether they're being fairly compensated.
You may remember
The Office did a series of webisodes in 2006 called
The Accountants, where several of the co-stars investigated missing account money. It even won a Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Broadband. This July's webisodes are essentially a renewal of that series.
Continue reading NBC's web plans for Chuck, Office, Heroes, 30 Rock
Posted Jan 31st 2008 10:02AM by Isabelle Carreau
Filed under: Lost, TV Squad Polls, Web, Watercooler Talk
Since the first season of ABC's hit series
Lost, fans have been speculating on the fate of Jack and Claire's father, Christian. At first we thought he was dead. But then there was the empty casket and Jack saw his father on the island. Eventually, most of us assumed that the smoke monster took the form of Christian. The final
Missing Pieces mobisode / webisode of the series reignites the water cooler talk about Christian's fate.
Continue reading Is Lost's Christian Shephard dead or alive?
Posted Nov 13th 2007 8:51AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Lost, Web
ABC has launched the first of 13 web-only, mini episodes for
Lost. The webisodes are about two minutes long and feature the major characters from
Lost. They're called
Missing Pieces and are meant to fill in extra information about characters and hint at the overall mythology of the island.
The first episode of the series is called "The Watch" and it features Jack and his father.
And, oh my God, it is awful.
What a waste of time. The webisode is a seemingly meaningless exchange between Jack and his father before Jack's wedding to Sarah. Jack's dad gives him a watch. And it takes two and a half minutes to do it. Plus, the dialogue is very poor. For instance, Jack says, "Dad, are you trying to tell me something?" And, I could be wrong, but I think Matthew Fox isn't too thrilled about the webisode because he seems to be phoning it in.
Continue reading ABC launches Lost webisodes (and they suck)
Posted Oct 17th 2006 8:31PM by Adam Finley
Filed under: Food/Home/DIY, Web, Celebrities
On October 19 BravoTV.com will launch a new online twelve-webisode series called
Top Recipe: The Wong Way to Cook. Lee Anne Wong will demonstrate the winning recipe from
Top Chef every Thursday (
Top Chef's second season debuts on Wednesday, October 18). While I don't cook nearly as much as I'd like and am rather indifferent to cooking shows, I think this is a great idea. Having the show online would allow viewers to easily pause and rewind to see how things are done and to jot down ingredients. Of course, having a DVR affords this same luxury, but this is just another method of making DIY that much easier. It would be nice to see more DIY shows create Web spin-offs like this, then I could pause
New Yankee Workshop while I try to find out what the hell a steel bit metric two-way electric free-standing reversible gas-powered triangular widget saw is.
Posted Oct 11th 2006 6:04PM by Adam Finley
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, NBC, Late Night, Animation, Web, Celebrities
Comedian Jim Gaffigan's animated shorts, "Pale Force," which he's been showing on Late Night with Conan O'Brien since 2005, are coming to NBC.com/Conan as a series of 90-second webisodes. Starting tomorrow evening, Gaffigan will debut the first part of a two-part episode on Conan that will conclude online the following day. Special online-only episodes will debut on the Late Night Web site every Friday, and Gaffigan will appear on the show once a month to reveal yet another two-parter with the second part appearing online the next day. "Pale Force" is about a hunky super hero played by Jim Gaffigan and his sidekick, Conan O'Brien. The two men fight crime using the power of their pasty white skin. The series is drawn by New Yorker cartoonist Paul Noth. YouTube has a few episodes of the series.
Posted Oct 6th 2006 8:19AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, NBC, Industry
Great article over
at Zap2It explains what the hell is going on with our friends from
Nobody's Watching. Essentially, they need some love from the internet to get their show on NBC. That's why we've seen so many video shorts from the boys (still playing their characters of Derrick and Will) lately.
NBC ordered six scripts from them this summer and gave them some foolin' around money to keep buzz alive on the internet. Zap2It reports that NBC has until February to decide whether to greenlight production of new episodes of the show.
In the meantime, they are using NBC's money to create video shorts spoofing
'Til Death,
Mentos,
24, etc. The article includes an interview with show creator (and
Scrubs creator) Bill Lawrence, who says
the new Nobody's Watching website is about what the Derrick and Will characters have been doing for the last year-and-a-half since WB decided not to air their show. He says, "They can't go home out of embarrassment: They told everyone they were going to be on tv and they weren't." Lawrence says, if NBC does pick up the show, the last webisode on
Nobody's Watching's website will reveal
who posted the
pilot to YouTube.
Posted Sep 7th 2006 7:06AM by Jen Creer
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, Battlestar Galactica, Video, Web, Sci Fi
(Webisode 2) I just watched the second
BSG webisode. As one commenter (Hi, JScott!) noted on my post on the first webisode just a few minutes ago, this one was shorter. But I think there was a lot going on. Remember back to Freshman College English where we found out that you can tell what characters are like from what they say/do and what other characters say about them.
Continue reading Battlestar Galactica webisode 2: The Resistance
Posted Aug 8th 2006 12:05PM by Will O'Brien
Filed under: Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, Video, Web, Sci Fi, Eureka
When
Eureka started airing, the SciFi channel started posting short "webisodes" under the
Eureka section of SciFi.com. Now that a few parts have been released, I'll go over them a bit. Each webisode consists of a few scenes from a bonus episode of
Eureka.
The
Prolog looks like something you'd find on YouTube. A couple of peeping toms are sneaking around in the woods with their video camera. While they're to score some footage, a beastly roar shatters the night and our peeping toms are running for it. Just before the video cuts, we're treated to a picture of...Bigfoot. (Bigfoot is a huge advocate of privacy rights, that's why we never see him.)
Continue reading Eureka: Hide and Seek (Part One and Two)
Posted Jul 12th 2006 10:42AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, NBC, Video, The Office
The Office webisodes begin on Thursday. The video shorts star Angela, Kevin and Oscar in a series of whodunit stories where the trio of accountants try to figure out why $3,000 is missing. There will be special appearances by Rainn Wilson (Dwight Schrute) and the actress who plays Phyllis.
The series of ten episodes begins tomorrow on NBC's
The Office webpage.
Posted Jun 21st 2006 10:41AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Industry, Web
A series of web videos produced for Axe deodorant are so popular that they're coming to television. The web series is called Evan and Gareth (
www.EvanandGareth.com), and it's about two guys who go around the country giving dating advice and making jackasses of themselves by hitting on Playboy models. It's goofy. And watch-able, since each clip is no longer than 2 minutes. I honestly hadn't heard of this little Evan and Gareth phenomenon until this news, but lots of other people have seen it. 10 million people, to be exact. Axe says most of the viewers are 15-25 years old. Hello, key demographic!
While a production company and a marketing company are the ones teaming up to bring the series to television, no network is currently on board to air it.
[Via
TV Tattle]
Posted Mar 16th 2006 8:33PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, NBC, Web, The Office
It's as though
The Office is going off on a
tangent. This summer, while star Steve Carell is off
shooting
movies, some of the actors in the smaller roles will get their own web-only episodes of
The Office. There
will be ten, whodunit "webisodes" on
NBC.com starring the
accounting staff of Dunder-Mifflin. The premise of the series is that the accountants can't account for $3,000 and they
go on a mission to find out who's responsible. The series will star Angela, Kevin and Oscar, and will include special
appearances from Dwight (Rainn Wilson) and Phyllis. Should be cute.
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