Back on Topps Not Quuuuuuiiiiiteeee There Yet
Saturday, October 4th, 2008Michael Eisner's company bought the baseball card company Topps last year, and this year, his new media production company Vuguru is making a mockumentary about it. Back on Topps stars twin comedians The Sklar Brothers, and is actually quite ...
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A Sign of Things to Come: The Audience for TV’s New Season Keeps Shrinking
Friday, October 3rd, 2008With every new season premiere of every show on TV, the story seems to be consistent: audiences are not coming back this fall. Just got an email from THR and all three articles in it were about TV networks hemorrhaging audiences: ABC ...
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Mad Men Fan Art
Thursday, October 2nd, 2008Everyone here knows my great love for the Emmy-winning show Mad Men, which results in my following of their marketing-type activities like Mad Men Twitterers and the like. I stumbled upon an illustrator who shares my passion for the 1960's advertising ...
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LonelyGirl15 Creators Not So Lonely Anymore
Wednesday, October 1st, 2008We interviewed Miles Beckett and Greg Goodfried, the creators of Lonelygirl15 and Kate Modern, for the September/October 2008 issue of Script Magazine. Their new media production company EQAL recently landed $5 million in financing and a big contract with ...
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1962, Meet 2008: Mad Men Characters are Twittering
Monday, August 25th, 2008One of my favorite shows on TV, AMC's Mad Men is getting bigger audiences in season 2, and treating them to an expanded look into the lives of the [fictional] ad world of 1962. The tone is pitch-perfect, the characters ...
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TeenWolf Remixed
Sunday, August 17th, 2008Hat tip to Kent Nichols for tipping me off to the LA-based sketch comedy group Summer of Tears' genius send-up of Michael J. Fox's 1985 movie TeenWolf. Great writing, editing, and sight gags (but NSFW). Summer of Tears in TeenWolf
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Holy Applebox! ‘Mad Men’ Cast the Next NBA Dream Team?
Friday, August 8th, 2008I've heard of actors having to deal with height differences on set, but this is ridiculous. According to a rolling promo window on the Hulu home page, the cast of Mad Men are a bunch of giants. Imagine ...
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SNLers Get in “Line”
Tuesday, August 5th, 2008The tsunami of online content can be overwhelming, so I am especially aware of online series catches and holds my attention. Bill Hader and Jason Sudeikis of SNL and other recognizable comedians team up in The Line, from Crackle.com. I had heard ...
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Stephen King’s N
Friday, August 1st, 2008When Stephen King goes online, it's newsworthy. When it's the creepiest online series I've ever seen, it's worth a mention on our site. Definitely worth a watch. Great musical score with disheartening violins and fear-inducing build-ups. Daily, 2-minute ...
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TNT Went All-In on Lucky Chance and Busted
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008[Originally written for TubeFilter.tv.] Half advertisement, half action series, TNT’s new short-form series Lucky Chance is a high-speed romp through a what feels like a student film inspired by the fast editing style, one-liner quipping actors, and outlandish mobsters in Guy ...
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