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Category Archives: web series

Hitvidi Web Pilot Competition

Everything’s coming up web series these days.  Latest: hitvidi’s call for entries into its hit video web pilot competition… All right, maybe it isn’t “latest” exactly.  Deadline’s May 1 which doesn’t leave you a lot of time to get your act together.
What do you got to do?
Create a hit web show of any kind
comedy, prank, […]

The 26 Finalists

Here are the Independent Production Fund Web Drama Series Pre-Selection results. 166 applied, 26 have been asked to submit complete production applications by May 1, 2010.
These are the 26 projects:
11 Règles
Whimz Studio
Producer: Steve Kerr
Writer: André Gulluni
Director: Yan Lanouette-Turgeon
The Agent C
Ravenhead Productions
Steve Cochrane, Phyllis Ellis, Adriana Maggs
Beer Goggles
Decode Entertainment Inc.
Greydon Laing, Beth Stevenson

The Brothers McElroy
Zeros […]

Web Series Pitch Competition

Just for Laughs Comedy Conference announced a pitch competition for comedy web series. I’ve read the guidelines which are sort of on the confusing side. Even the title of the thing is confusing:
“PITCH ‘TIL YOUR SIDES SPLIT” JUST FOR LAUGHS COMEDY CONFERENCE PITCH PROGRAM and the COMEDY BOOTCAMP FOR FILM
This is how […]

Konk

Rob Mills is always up to something cool, most recently he’s created Konk’s Blog, A Field Guide to the Monster Slaying.  A web series doesn’t have to be expensive or have enormous production values.  It needs to be creative and cool, as Rob so aptly proves.
He’s posted three episodes in the last three weeks and […]

Talk About Filling A Need

Applications to the Independent Production Fund’s Web Drama Series Pilot Program were due yesterday.  This being the first time for the fund, no one had any real idea how many applications to expect.  I heard educated estimates around 100.
Well…
The tally is in.  There were 166 applications from across the country!
45 French.
121 English.
Wow.
Allow me to say […]

The Office: New Web Series

Subtle Sexuality is the new 3- part web series from the Office that launched October 29th. 
Subtle Sexuality is a girl group formed by  characters Kelly Kapoor and Erin Hannon.  The Subtle Sexuality website promises a world tour.
These independent ladies can do it all: sing, dance, be fiercealicious, and work it…all at the same time!! […]

In Teh Toobs

Here’s a sample of Rob Mills very cool new web series, In Teh Toobs.  Rob’s done an amazing job of combining the new and old and mashing up genres.  For those who don’t know, Mr Mills is a Henson-trained puppeteer and Riley, the central character in the series, is an adorable puppet dog.  But that […]

Hailey Hacks April Fools


Hailey Hacks: Press Release

NEW WEB SERIES TEACHES KIDS COMPUTER SAVVY THEY DON’T LEARN IN SCHOOL
Thirteen-year-old web wizard, Hailey, makes technology cool
TORONTO, March 25, 2009 — Story2.OH and giraffesoft introduce Hailey Hacks, a series of web videos starring Toronto grade 6 student, Marlee Maslove. Hailey (Maslove) is the Hermione Grainger of web wizardry showing 8-13 year olds all kinds […]

More Blankslate

Bill at Pulp 2.0 is carrying on the Blankslate conversation with a review of the first episode of the TNT Blank Slate.  Unfortunately, there’s no option to embed the episode here, so you’ll have to go over to TNT to watch it.  But fortunately, it doesn’t seem to be geo blocked, so you really can […]