If there’s a meme that’s been repeated even twice online, there’s a solid chance that Ben Huh, CEO of the I Can Haz Cheezburger media empire, has tried to build a brand around it. And a few weeks ago, Huh and his team began… Read More »
Shows & Stars
Everything was picture-perfect when I visited the If I Can Dream house at the beginning of the month, just before five young people moved in to follow their dreams on a 24/7 live feed. Which is why I decided to wait to see what… Read More »
Because I was lame as a teenager, I didn’t watch a lot of MTV. (Or is it the other way around: Was I lame as a teenager because I didn’t watch a lot of MTV? A deeper question for a deeper time.) Anyways, the… Read More »
Current’s Infomania hit upon a winning combination last night: What if Oprah Winfrey (who’s the narrator of the Discovery Channel’s maybe-sorta-ripoff-of-the-BBC’s-Earth series Life) took that same nature documentary approach to another nonfiction series that delved into a strange and previously unexplored culture: MTV’s Jersey Shore.… Read More »
Shows about people trying to break into Hollywood, as I’ve said many times before, is one of the web video industry’s most tired genres. Fortunately, the BET-distributed web series Buppies isn’t about trying to break into Hollywood — it’s about living in it,… Read More »
One of this week’s unexpected viral stars wasn’t a cat or a girl in a bikini, but rather environmentalist Annie Leonard, whose rant about bottled water, released in conjunction with World Water Day, has racked up over 150,000 views on YouTube in one week.
Looks like in the case of The Guild, the gestation of a comic book project is about the same as a human pregnancy. Nine months after announcing that she’d be writing a Guild comic book for Dark Horse Comics, Felicia Day’s first foray… Read More »
The host of Freezerburns, Gregory Ng, has no culinary skills — he’s a creative director for a Raleigh, N.C., marketing agency and a father of three. But that hasn’t stopped the packaged meat enthusiast from creating the web’s most prominent video series focusing on the… Read More »
Paula Deen fans take note — the domestic goddess with an EQAL-run umbrella site wants to give you a taste of the limelight. Partnering with co-sponsor Kraft Philadelphia Cream Cheese, Deen’s site is running an online audition in search of on-camera cooks with… Read More »
Any fan of Joss Whedon’s now-departed Dollhouse knows that the freakiest thing about the show wasn’t its dystopian neuropunk brain experiments, but the talent of its at-the-time-unknown supporting cast, who were challenged to create completely different characters on a weekly basis, but made it look… Read More »
UPDATED: Anyone catching up on last week’s viral videos this morning might run into a unfortunate surprise: Chat Roulette Funny Piano Improv, featuring a Ben Folds-esque gent named Merton serenading Chat Roulette users with improvised piano ditties, has been taken down from YouTube for… Read More »
The second annual Streamy Awards approach, and with it comes today’s announcement of this year’s 10 Audience Choice finalists, which are: Agents of Cracked Anyone But Me Dorm Life: Semester 2 Elevator Noob Star-ving The Guild Legend of Neil The Totally Rad Show The Young Turks Votes will be accepted at Streamys.org until… Read More »
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