Yahoo! isn’t the only online video destination building a studio in New York City. The home of original web series hits such as Time Magazine’s favorite You Suck at Photoshop, David Wain’s Wainy Days, A.D. Miles’ Horrible People, Josh Gad’s Gigi, and Mary Lynn Rajskub’s Dicki is constructing digs in which it will film a shiny new slate of online programming. Once complete, the My Damn Channel Studio at the Film Center Building in Manhattan’s Hell’s Kitchen will be home to the upcoming My Damn Channel production of My Damn Channel: Live. The program is one of YouTube’s chosen original channels and will consist of daily 10-minute interactive broadcasts in addition to one full 30-minute installment per week. If that shooting schedule sounds ambitious, that’s because it is. A check from YouTube helps to cover the production costs, but you still...
- 12/12/2011
- by Joshua Cohen
- Tubefilter.com
Greg & Donny have discovered Farmville. It was only a matter of time. Today the hick comedy web series returns for its second season with “Greg the Farmer,” proving that no internet phenomenon is out of reach of these knuckleheads. Together the duo of Jeff Skowron and Matt Yeager, the creators and stars of the series, make up Puddinhead Brothers on YouTube. Skowron stars as Greg and Yeager as Donny, two Western Pennsylvania yokels discovering the wonders of the internet. Yeager’s also part of the team at Dinosaur Diorama, which brought some of the early NY-based web comedies to national spotlight, like hipster-loving The Burg, RenFaire moc-doc All’s Faire and Vuguru’s branded indie rock road trip The All-For-Nots. Not surprisingly, fellow Burg creator Thom Woodley directs Greg & Donny. Related News:Quick Clicks: ‘The Battery’s’ Streamy, ‘Greg & Donny’, #Streamathon, ‘Alma’ ‘The Burg’ Is Cool Again, Hipsters Back, Yupsters Out...
- 9/8/2010
- by Marc Hustvedt
- Tubefilter.com
Next New Networks officially announced their "Next New Creators" program today, which works with upstart indie web series and brings them into the Nnn mix in a slightly less formal way than some of the network's originally developed shows. The 4 year-old online TV network—which is really a family of channels like Barely Political, Threadbanger, Indy Mogul, and Channel Frederator—had been working with a select group of shows over the past year in non-exclusive fashion. Auto-Tune the News, the breakout musical satire series from the Gregory Brothers, is probably the most notable of the early crop of shows to come out of the program, grossing over 35 million views on YouTube and other sites. Other web series like those that were tapped for Nnn's new foodie site, Hungry Nation, were also in the program including Daniel Delaney’s street food escapes on Vendr.TV and Max and Rebecca Lando’s...
- 12/16/2009
- by Marc Hustvedt
- Tubefilter.com
Not since the Streamy Awards have we seen this many web series stars in one place. Ok not really, but with the fourth season of The Temp Life, the Spherion-backed comedy about life inside a dreadful NY temp agency kicking off today, the cast is loaded up with notable web series stars. The casting moves are signs this four-year old web show is growing up with the medium in which it plays. Call it Web TV's version of keiretsu. Creator Wilson Cleveland, Cjp Communications' Head of Digital Media, built the show back in 2006 for the firm's client Spherion. Incidentally, Cleveland also stars in the The Temp Life, as Nick “Trouble” Chiapetta, the once-ceo of Commodity Staffing, the shoddy agency. This new season picks up with some major changes once Chiapetta returns to office after a 33-week Awol. Notable guest (web) stars: Thom Woodley — co-creator and star of All's Faire, The 'Burg and Vuguru's The All-for-Nots.
- 11/16/2009
- by Marc Hustvedt
- Tubefilter.com
Music videos are perhaps the pinnacle commercial form of video art - forever testing boundaries and pushing cinematic techniques with always-distinctive styles and often obtuse symbolism. The democratization of the means of video production And now the lines of distribution have opened the gates of music video creation to a whole new class of hyper-creative and highly motivated young creators. But, amidst the deafening noise of prolific internet-age creativity, these works of art often go unnoticed in the ether. So, who better to harness the power of this growing community and give these videos a home than the people who championed the music video in the first place with the original launch of MTV. Enter $99 Music Videos. Next New Networks (a new media founded by MTV’s first ever creative director, Fred Seibert) teamed up with Jack Ferry (creator of viral comedy award-winning short Knock Knock) and Melissa Schneider (producer...
- 2/20/2009
- by Jamison Tilsner
- Tilzy.tv
Almost a year ago, The All-For-Nots played their first gig at Manhattan’s Mercury Lounge. Tonight, at Machless in Williamsburg, they will play what could possibly be their last. The band that was born from Michael Eisner’s new media studio, Vuguru and conceived by Kathleetn Grace and Thom Woodley of The Burg and Dinosaur Diorama Productions ended its self-titled web series in late August. The “Synth-Pop Indie-Electro-Folk-Emo-Dance-Gazer-Punk-Americana-Pop Prog-Rock-Emo” fivesome of Johnny, Caleb, Paul, Shirley, and Farrah seemed to be flirting with the idea of going on tour, but sometimes life imitates art. Thom explained over email: “In a surprising turn of events, it turned out very much like our original series - interpersonal drama, musical differences, lack of money. If people want to know what happened to the band, and how a band can fall apart at the same time it’s blowing up, they should go watch The All-For-Nots.
- 12/5/2008
- by Joshua Cohen
- Tilzy.tv
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