A while back I wondered which of the inaugural lineup of Strike.TV web series will be the standout, and I think we have our answer. With the Angels, the dramatic web series from creator (and former lonelygirl15 writer) Mary Feuer, released its season finale today, wrapping up an ambitious 36 episode first season. And in that time, the series has picked up an healthy following known to debate some hefty issues, everything from faith to existentialism and Kierkegaard. Starring Jamie Tisdale as the young small town Arkansas ingenue Taffy, the With the Angels charts her arrival in Venice, California, thrusting her into an unfamiliar world surrounded by unfamiliar people. But through her we come to watch those strangers become friends—friends of our own even—closer and realer than what we've come to expect out in scripted entertainment. The unfamiliar becomes the familiar. With an ensemble cast including Carly Jones (Mallory in lonelygirl15), René Alvarado,...
- 12/30/2008
- by Marc Hustvedt
- Tubefilter.com
As we hinted at earlier, broadband TV network KoldCast TV, who distributes numerous HD-quality web series including The Midwest Teen Sex Show, Poor Paul and After Judgment, has signed a partnership deal with TiVo allowing for their roster of web series to be available to their over 4 Million DVR subscribers. While the official announcement of the deal is yet to come, we confirmed that is in fact a go, with the first batch of ten web series expected to be on the service by the end of next week. The full list of the first ten series has not yet been announced, though we do know that After Judgment and Poor Paul will definitely be on that list. The web series will live on a new platform called TivoCast, which is available to TiVo subscribers with either a Series 2 or newer TiVo DVR (that's about 4 Million). Out of that 4 Million,...
- 12/4/2008
- by Marc Hustvedt
- Tubefilter.com
Today, after months of delays and strategizing, Strike.TV has finally launched. It's been a while since the picket lines of striking WGA writers last winter where the idea of a video portal for professional writers (read: WGA writers) could have a place to showcase their original web series while also owning the rights to all content. The idea seemed simple enough. Writers would head out and rally together resources — celebrity actor friends, camera ops, editors, etc. — calling in all the favors and waivers they could manage. ["allowfullscreen":"true","allowscriptaccess":"always","src":"http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1981034&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00Adef&fullscreen=1"] The content was the easy part. With Hollywood on strike for two months, it seemed everyone had a little time to spare and a hand to lend. In all, some fifty web series were collected for the newly formed site, loading it up with a year's worth of star-driven series. Here are some of the web series debuting today: * Unknown Sender, written/directed...
- 10/28/2008
- by Marc Hustvedt
- Tubefilter.com
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