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Can Web Series Creators Turn Their Work Into A Career? 9 Aug 2013 | 12:10 am
When Netflix is a leading Emmy contender it looks like TV has been completely disrupted. Thanks to subscribers, Netflix is already HBO. It can pull together generously budgeted dramas, something most...
Zombies Beat Humans on Television 6 Aug 2013 | 05:48 am
This post was originally published at Flow TV (click for footnotes). On a recent episode of the Melissa Harris Perry Show – a stellar example of what’s possible in the expanding field of TV news – I ...
Break 10 Jun 2013 | 09:48 pm
Now that my first quarter of teaching is done, I’m headed to Europe for a conference and a little vacation. I will return to blogging in July!
Where Are The Web TV Critics? (Or, Why I Can’t Review Your Web Series) 22 May 2013 | 07:06 pm
I’ve been writing about web video since 2009. I’m part of a tiny group of writers who have sustained interest in web television over the years, taking time to interview producers and write about the...
Indie TV and the Value of Post-Network Television 16 May 2013 | 10:18 am
It looks like the new television is here: a flexible, open industry more responsive to consumers and producers. Henry Jenkins’ textual poachers have become textual producers. Twenty years ago, audienc...
Green-lit By The Neutral Net (Ylse) 15 May 2013 | 10:25 am
Ylse is a 2008 sitcom about a modern Americana and the quirky characters around her. It won a 2010 Imagen Award for best Internet sitcom and the audience favorite at the 2009 Rasquache Film Festival. ...
More Than Creative (Squaresville) 13 May 2013 | 08:45 pm
Now in its second season, Squaresville is a comedy about two geeks trapped in a small town. The series is distributed on Wonderly, Big Frame’s network for young women. Last year it took home three tro...
How Two Broads Braved the Web (Broad City) 29 Apr 2013 | 09:31 pm
Premiering in 2010, Broad City is a sitcom co-created by Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer. In March Comedy Central announced it was picking up the show for a 2014 release, with Amy Poehler producing alo...
Pioneering Underground TV (BLACK&SEXY TV) 23 Apr 2013 | 09:14 pm
BLACK&SEXYTV is an independent video network on YouTube. An outgrowth of Dennis Dortch’s 2008 feature A Good Day to Be Black and Sexy, it has released five episodic series, including The Number, Roomi...
Upsized and ‘Downsized,’ the Ups and Downs of Being a Web Series Creator 22 Apr 2013 | 09:29 pm
Downsized is a 2009 web drama. It was a 2012 Writers Guild nominee for original new media and has been celebrated in such publications as the Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Fast Company and Indiewir...
