Web 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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Kardashians Invade Online Video - Kourtney Kardashian Web Series On The Way

Kardashian! Now that I have your attention, there's a new Kourtney Kardashian web series on the way. Yes, Kourtney Kardashian is appearing in a new web series for E Online! called Kourtney's Mommy Blog.  If you can't get enough of the Kardashian family, or saying the ...

No Web Series For ABC Soaps One Life to Live and All My Children

Over Thanksgiving it was announced that long-running ABC soaps One Life to Live and All My Children would not, in fact, be reincarnated as web series as was planned.  One Life to Live will end in January while All My Children ended, what turns out ...

Conan O'Brien To Make Appearance As Himself On Web Therapy

One of the most successful web series out there is Web Therapy, a comedy starring Lisa Kudrow as a not-so-qualified therapist who treats patients via video chat.  The series, created by Kudrow and producer/director Don Roos, has attracted a number of name stars such as ...