I first met Joshua Malina, an actor I came to adore thanks to his role on Aaron Sorkin's still-genius 1998 series Sports Night, for an interview in support of his wickedly warped 2010 webseries, Backwash. So it's only appropriate that our second chat also be in support of a webseries I adore, Leap Year.
Josh is the third amazing actor I've profiled to cameo on the tech savvy series this season, and one equally enamored of the cast and crew that have ushered Leap Year to the small screen. And while Josh will be spending most of 2012 working on a slightly larger screen now that he's been upped to series regular on ABC's addictive Scandal, he eventually hopes to return to the world wide web since it's creativity's ultimate playground!
TheInsider.com: Both Eliza Dushku and Emma Caulfield told me they got involved with Leap Year through co-star/producer Wilson Cleveland. Same for you...
Josh is the third amazing actor I've profiled to cameo on the tech savvy series this season, and one equally enamored of the cast and crew that have ushered Leap Year to the small screen. And while Josh will be spending most of 2012 working on a slightly larger screen now that he's been upped to series regular on ABC's addictive Scandal, he eventually hopes to return to the world wide web since it's creativity's ultimate playground!
TheInsider.com: Both Eliza Dushku and Emma Caulfield told me they got involved with Leap Year through co-star/producer Wilson Cleveland. Same for you...
- 7/2/2012
- TheInsider.com
Being a startup entrepreneur is hard. First, you have to find and execute a great idea (or at least an idea). And second, you have to take care of all the businessy things that come along with creating and operating a company. Things like taxes, payroll, health insurance, incorporation documents, small business insurance, and other important minutia and mandatory idiosyncrasies that make the government make sure it’s okay with whatever it is you’re doing. But where’s a startup entrepreneur supposed to learn about and acquire all these stamps, documents, and seals of approval? I have no idea! Well, except if you’re a professional services startup with 10 employees or less. Then I have some idea where you can get small business insurance. You can go to Hiscox. The London Stock Exchange-listed insurance provider that specializes in niche areas of the insurance market (including art collections and kidnapping...
- 5/18/2011
- by Joshua Cohen
- Tubefilter.com
A half hour web show. It’s a simple premise. It makes sense. You don’t want to sit down after a long day at work and watch four minutes of something. You want to relax and engage in a passive entertainment experience that at most requires your active participation in scrolling to the next episode and hitting play once every 22 minutes. And the reason I say a 30-minute web show makes sense isn't simply intuition supported by hypothetical, anecdotal evidence. Hard facts show online video consumers seem to be ready for a half hour web show, too. Lunch time used to be web TV primetime, but in the past two years peak online video viewing hours have shifted from Noon - 3Pm to 8Pm - 11Pm. Viral videos and uber-short-form web series haven’t gone out of vogue, it’s more that a combination of technology, content quality, and...
- 2/1/2011
- by Joshua Cohen
- Tubefilter.com
Break a Leg is a web series about creating a television show called Groomates, which is a sitcom about three ex-grooms living with their two ex-wives. Wordplay! Brothers Yuri and Vlad Baranovsky released Break a Leg online in late 2007, and it's bizarro Hollywood stylings, murder mystery hook, Arrested Development sensibility, and excellent use of a laugh machine quickly made it one of the web's first breakout hits. Unfortunately, the Arrested Development comparision goes beyond the show's sense of humor. Despite widespread critical acclaim, Break a Leg was never able to garner big money sponsorships and its YouTube viewcounts equated to little cash. At least that's what happened when the show aired in the Us. Perhaps it'll garner good reviews and fame and fortune in Italy. Happy Little Guillotine Films, the production company behind Break a Leg, recently announced a deal with Fox Channels Italy that will bring the web series overseas.
- 2/24/2010
- by Joshua Cohen
- Tubefilter.com
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