Ricky Gervais Announces New Interweb Series

…And he wants us to pay. Ah well, we all love him aspire to become him anyway:

RICKY’S BLOG – Read Ricky’s thoughts on his upcoming projects, visits to restaurants and round-headed friends

I also finished editing the pilot episode of our new internet project. It will be called “Learn English with Ricky Gervais” and it’s turned out great.

We hope to have it subtitled into as many languages as possible. read article

Starting Your Own Series on a Shoestring

Yes, it can be done. Check out this mucho helpful article from CliqueclackTV on various types of interweb video series and how to start them:

Drinking is the new writing…just ask these drinkers writers

Tired of TV? Create your own web series! – Monthly Musings
by An Nicholson

Although I think today’s TV is pretty good, it can improve. If you aren’t satisfied with network/cable shows, create your own! With today’s inexpensive technology and the multiple opportunities available through the internet, public access TV, campus TV, and local radio, you have NO excuse to NOT contribute to the creative TV landscape.

To provide suggestions for the fledgling web creator or student producer, I tapped the awesome Joe Wilson, writer/director of the kickbutt web series Vampire Mob and our own Katie Schenkel, who runs the movie review vlog, Just Plain Something. read article

Here It Is: The New BigMedia Showbiz Business Model

…Same as the old indie showbiz business model – except even cheaper.

Jerry Seinfeld’s New Show ‘Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee’ Gets First Teaser (Video)
by Jordan Zakarin

Seinfeld, famously, was a show about nothing. Jerry Seinfeld‘s new show, on the other hand, is clearly a show about something; it’s right there in the title: Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee. The meaning of something, of course, is relative. read article