Comments on: Dr. Horrible‘s Opening Day Ups and Downs http://gigaom.com/2008/07/15/dr-horribles-opening-day-ups-and-downs/ Tue, 21 May 2013 03:10:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Dr. Horrible: the Best or Worst Thing to Happen to Web Video? http://gigaom.com/2008/07/15/dr-horribles-opening-day-ups-and-downs/#comment-460592 Sat, 08 Aug 2009 07:02:55 +0000 http://newteevee.com/?p=4648#comment-460592 [...] the world that you could make a successful show outside of the Hollywood system. But that was more than a year a year ago. What has the web video industry done [...]

]]> By: Dr. Horrible DVD: Yes, It’s Worth Your Money « NewTeeVee http://gigaom.com/2008/07/15/dr-horribles-opening-day-ups-and-downs/#comment-460591 Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:59:53 +0000 http://newteevee.com/?p=4648#comment-460591 [...] While Joss Whedon has definitely gotten the bulk of the credit for Dr. Horrible, the behind-the-scenes featurettes go out of their way to celebrate his co-writers. Jed Whedon is applauded for his visual style and musical sensibility (he claims the title “Writer/Composer”) while Zack Whedon (who’s also written for Deadwood, John From Cincinnati, and Fringe) is credited with authorship of most of the show’s best dialogue, including the most-quoted “The hammer is my penis” line. An entire featurette is devoted to the nitty-gritty details of the music recording process (which, per the traditions of classic musicals, was the first stage of production), while the final chapter, entitled What Just Happened?, covers the incredible web reaction to the series. A highlight is Jed Whedon admitting that the first two days of the show’s launch were “two days of hell,” thanks to intense demand that repeatedly crashed the web site. [...]

]]> By: Check Into to Corddry’s Hospital Comedy « NewTeeVee http://gigaom.com/2008/07/15/dr-horribles-opening-day-ups-and-downs/#comment-460590 Fri, 17 Oct 2008 19:43:56 +0000 http://newteevee.com/?p=4648#comment-460590 [...] Dr. Horrible was an all-star success that broke the Internet, it looks like Children’s has the makings of being a smash hit on its own, and now [...]

]]> By: Whedon’s ‘Dr. Horrible’ Has a Crashingly Good Start | What did you mean ? http://gigaom.com/2008/07/15/dr-horribles-opening-day-ups-and-downs/#comment-460588 Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:44:24 +0000 http://newteevee.com/?p=4648#comment-460588 [...] It hasn’t loaded for me all day, presumably because rabid Joss Whedon fans have crashed a sizeable portion of the internet, which is a touch ironic considering the show is being distributed for free for a limited time [...]

]]> By: // » Blog Archive » Don’t miss Dr. Horrible by Joss Whedon http://gigaom.com/2008/07/15/dr-horribles-opening-day-ups-and-downs/#comment-460587 Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:32:52 +0000 http://newteevee.com/?p=4648#comment-460587 [...] I’m not the only one blogging about this. There are fans [...]

]]> By: Meatgrinderdottv http://gigaom.com/2008/07/15/dr-horribles-opening-day-ups-and-downs/#comment-460586 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:04:33 +0000 http://newteevee.com/?p=4648#comment-460586 WOW that is a lot of traffic to a big creator. Good job for a web series of this nature.

]]> By: Steve Garfield http://gigaom.com/2008/07/15/dr-horribles-opening-day-ups-and-downs/#comment-460585 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:42:37 +0000 http://newteevee.com/?p=4648#comment-460585 A blog includes posts with titles, descriptions and permalinks.

Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, despite it’s name, isn’t a blog.

This is:
http://stevegarfield.blogs.com/drhorriblessingalongblog/

:-)

]]> By: Tim Street http://gigaom.com/2008/07/15/dr-horribles-opening-day-ups-and-downs/#comment-460584 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:34:15 +0000 http://newteevee.com/?p=4648#comment-460584 It looks like Star Power has won the day and Dr. Horrible is number one on iTunes TV Seasons

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