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If there’s one thing the Internet isn’t lacking, it’s how-to videos.  Whether you want to get artistic with your eyeshadow or make your own stun gun, someone’s made a video showing you how.  So when budding Next New Networks channel Hungry Nation launched the series 12 […] Read more »

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Even the most rudimentary Creative Writing 101 class at the Learning Annex will instruct you that stories that end with “and it was all in his mind” are usually very, very bad.  But as the new web series Coma, Period proves, a story that begins that […] Read more »

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Truth be told, what your average online video fan knows about Mormonism is probably about enough to fill an episode of South Park. So a web series produced at Brigham Young University, based on themes from the Book of Mormon, and aimed at Latter-Day Saint audiences doesn’t […] Read more »

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So. Much. Online. Content. This week Tilzy.tv brought us the first annual Onfronts, a presentation of what the year ahead has to offer in online video.  Like the oldteevee upfronts from which they get their name, the Onfronts are a way for content providers to show […] Read more »

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Don’t you hate it when you move into your college dorm room only to find out that it was previously inhabited by a girl who looked just like you and died mysteriously the previous spring?  I mean, gag me with a spoon, totally! In fact, the […] Read more »

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Harper’s Island, the 13-episode “mystery event,” debuts tonight on CBS, where it will spin a gory yarn about a wedding gone wrong in a town with a bloody past.  Fans of companion web series Harper’s Globe are already four weeks ahead of the game, having familiarized themselves […] Read more »

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The first annual Streamy Awards ceremony, held last night in Los Angeles, was a star-studded and high-energy event. (Pictured here: our iPhone paparazzi shot of Neil Patrick Harris. Update: Below are nice photos from TheBuiBrothers.com. ) As Dr. Horrible’s Sing-along Blog and The Guild were two of the […] Read more »

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Creating newteevee to supplement oldteevee is a tricky thing. How do you tie your online content to your TV show in a way that engages your TV audience without having so much integral content online that non-Internet-savvy viewers feel alienated? There’s no magic formula, but one […] Read more »

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Since January of 2008, online video creators The Fine Brothers have been producing a comedic sendup of Lost called Lost: What Will Happen Next? using the series’ own official action figures.  Last week, ABC launched Lost Untangled, an comedic series of Lost recap videos … using the […] Read more »

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A video of a supposed assassination attempt in Russia pops up on YouTube and clocks over 400,000 views and 1,500+ comments in under a week.  The info directs viewers to MIR-12, a shadowy organization bent on uncovering a deeply rooted Russian conspiracy they claim began in the 1950s.  […] Read more »

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Unless you’re a big fan of Heroes character Mohinder Suresh, you probably don’t find explanations of genetics all that dramatic. On the other hand, the latest developments in genetic testing mean questions that were once mostly rhetorical — What diseases am I likely to get? What […] Read more »

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Though Charlie’s Angels and Big Fish screenwriter John August’s web pilot The Remnants was beloved by fans and NTV Station alike, as of this writing August says the series is more or less dead in the water.  This week, he addressed the outpouring of positive fan response on his blog, outlining […] Read more »

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It’s clear that the public has an insatiable appetite for behind-the-scenes peeks at famous people. You can’t twitch your remote finger without hitting some Celebrity RehabFitSurrealHotTub show. But we online video consumers like our celebrity mockery the way we like everything else — hard and fast. […] Read more »