Web TV Series

This is our channel devoted to news and information about Web Series (episodic web video shows). Stay up-to-date with the newly emerging online video movement towards web television and more entertainment based web video television shows. Here we will cover new and interesting web series, talk about those companies that are supporting web series creators (like Revision3, Crackle, YouTube, and more), the type of episodic web video show content that interests us, and keep up-to-date with the latest and greatest web series episodes.

Community’s Inspector Spacetime To Be A Web Series, And Questions Of Legality Arise

Hey, let me be one of the many writers out there who love him some Community: I’ve watched the show since it first aired and know that much like Arrested Development, will likely never be watched quite like less-deserving shows and has been on the brink of cancellation since it was announced that it would …

Ed Begley, Jr. Looks To Fund Green-Living Web Series Through Kickstarter

Back when I was growing up, Ed Begley, Jr. was best known as Dr. Victor Ehrlich on St. Elsewhere.  But now, he’s best known as a true green-living individual who rides his bike everywhere, a somewhat viral video on YouTube where he and Fox anchor Stuart Varney argue over global warming, and to Spinal Tap …

Does Philip DeFranco’s New Channel, SourceFed, Water Down His Own Show?

Last week, Philip DeFranco’s original YouTube channel, SourceFed, made its debut.  Because the guy has over 2 million subscribers, he was able to get quite a few recruits for the new channel, which is opinionated entertainment news, gossip, and current events.  This new channel fits DeFranco like a glove, since this is exactly the type …

Zooey Deschanel’s HelloGiggles Picks Up Web Series, The Single Life

Last year, Dentyne Gum sponsored a scripted online dating web series called The Single Life.  Starring Taryn Southern (The Temp Life), Jeremy Searle, and “host” Leslie Miles (Final Destination 5, J Edgar), the show is a fictionalized how-to in online dating, complete with Blind Date-esque pop-ups.  The show had 4 episodes last summer, and now …

Hulu Original Programming To Include First Scripted Series, Documentaries

In a move that appears to be a response to Netflix and their foray into original programming, Hulu has announced three original series for this year.  One of them you already know.  Morgan Spurlock’s A Day in the Life will return for a second season and 10 episodes in March.  Filmmaker Richard Linklater has a …

Yahoo Web Series Roster Expands With Sports Prank Show, Blindsided

Right after Yahoo! announced Tom Hanks’ web series, Electric City, another announcement came in that they would be teaming with CollegeHumor to produce a sports prank web series called Blindsided.  It premieres next week.  It will not have a host, so it will probably have teammates/friends pulling pranks on each other, and we know as …

Mortal Kombat Legacy Is The Web Series Proof Of Concept

We’ve been sharing some video interviews from my recent trip to the Machinima LA offices, including a tour of the facility and a chat about the company’s belief that YouTube is social. I also got a chance to talk with CEO Allen DeBevoise about the Mortal Kombat Legacy web series project and what its success might …

Dating Rules From My Future Self: High Concept Comes To Web Series

2011 saw some very interesting science fiction and drama shows hit the web.  Comedy will always rule, but there’s definitely room for other genres and those continue to build audiences.  How about combining some very light science fiction to a romantic comedy?  Dating Rules From My Future Self is a new web series premiering January …

Major League Baseball To Make Fan Cave A Web Series In 2012

Last year, MLB.com offered a chance for one lucky person to watch all 2,429 regular season games and attend All-Star and postseason games through a contest called MLB Dream Job.  The winner was then sent to New York City and a former Greenwich Village Tower Records location to watch games, mingle with baseball’s All-Stars and …

Walking Dead Web Series Tank Zombie Canceled

AMC has been providing great shows for a few years now, with Mad Men, Breaking Bad, and The Walking Dead being their calling cards.  But when Walking Dead show-runner Frank Darabont got fired in July, it created some bad blood between people working on the show and AMC.  One actor, Being Human‘s Sam Witwer, spoke …

Pandora & Budweiser Offer Live Concerts On Video Hub, Pandora Presents

Pandora, the music provider that takes a band you love and offers several other suggestions to create a unique station, has teamed with Budweiser to bring video of featured artists to an online hub.  It’s called “Pandora Presents” and it launched recently with up-and-coming band Dawes.  Using Pandora’s social feature of “thumbs up” and “thumbs …

Machinima Releases Exclusive John Woo Web Series 7 Brothers

Machinima and John Woo have teamed to adapt Woo’s graphic novel, 7 Brothers, into a web series.  The first four episodes will be exclusively on Machinima, YouTube’s top channel.  Written by Garth Ennis (Preacher) and drawn by Jeevan J. Kang (Spider-Man: India), the series is produced in association with Liquid Comics and Tiger Hill Entertainment.  …

Call A Web Series What You Want, It’s Still Online, And That’s Not Shameful

I started writing for ReelSEO back in June, and the first thing that I wrote about extensively was web series. Not long after I started writing about them, a debate was raging on whether to call them a “web series” or a “multi-platform series” or an “original series on [Hulu or something similar].” There is …

Popular Twitter Feed “S*** Girls Say” Becomes A Web Series

It’s a flimsy premise, to be sure, but I know lots of people out there will find this really funny.  “S*** Girls Say” has over 60,000 Twitter followers, and is run by writers/comedians Kyle Humphrey and Graydon Sheppard.  They released their first episode on December 12, and it’s really nothing more than a man in …

The Latest YouTube Original Channel Is For Women

Food.  Fashion.  Parenting.  Stories.  These are the four things promised by YouTube’s new original channel, KinCommunity.  It’s backed by DECA, a digital media company that gears premium content towards women and is behind the YouTube parenting show Momversation.  KinCommunity comes shortly after ClevverTeVe launched its Spanish-language original channels, and this continues YouTube’s apparent commitment to …