eGuiders is a recently launched site that provides editorial recommendations for what it considers to be the best video on the web. It likens itself to a TV Guide for the Internet, and if your only source of information were USA Today, you’d think eGuiders was […] Read more »
This is probably a weird thing for a nerd girl with a college education to say, but man I’d love to be Heidi Klum. It’s not just that the 35-year-old mother of three can still rock a bra and panties collection for Victoria’s Secret, either. Klum’s […] Read more »
Making the rounds over the past few weeks, If I Made A Commercial for Trader Joe’s takes a personal approach to advertising the popular grocery store, but despite the fact that it’s a catchy, well-made salute to Trader Joe’s many quirks, the video is not a […] Read more »
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Another title for The Lonely Island’s first comedy album, Incredibad, could be “The Best of the SNL Digital Shorts, 2005-2008.” Dropping today, the CD/DVD set, also available for download on iTunes, features Lazy Sunday, Dick In a Box, and Jizz in My Pants, as well as […] Read more »
Stage 1: The Source Yesterday, the gossip factory TMZ released an audio recording of actor Christian Bale cussing out the director of photography on Terminator: Salvation. Recorded last July, the four-minute rant is liberally adorned with the f-word (a full transcript can be read here), and […] Read more »
Like most fans of online video, I’m a sucker for a good Star Wars reference, and so Chad Vader: Day Shift Manager has long been on my radar. Produced originally as a Channel 101 series by Matt Sloan and Aaron Yonda, Chad was an early success […] Read more »
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 »
Let me peel back the curtain here a little. We at NewTeeVee Station are frequently contacted by creators who want us to look at their new web projects, some of which are great, and some of which are so-so. We try and emphasize the great stuff […] Read more »
In the new Strike.TV pilot Fusion, a forensic psychologist and a well-meaning cop join forces to catch a killer — who is also a cop, albeit more of the prostitute-murdering, rogue variety. Lest this be too easily mistaken for Law & Order: Special Internet Unit, this […] Read more »
It may not be the most intellectually stimulating web content, but it’s hard to be immune to the joys of the I Can Has Cheezburger blogging empire, which includes the original LOL Cats archive, Graph Jam, and FAIL Blog. And when the ICHC network began incorporating […] Read more »
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Uploaded last week, YouTube Street Fighter videos have already garnered well over 5 million views, and counting. That’s not just due to gamer nostalgia over the coin arcade classic, or because it’s currently featured on YouTube’s home page. A lot of the views are generated by […] Read more »
Oh, admit it. Some of you are here solely because the phrase “young lesbian love” caught your eye. But this isn’t about that sort of Internet clip. Anyone But Me is a coming-of-age lesbian drama in which teen protagonists in NYC dare to live out their […] Read more »
Few shows have enjoyed the critical and popular success that Lost did in its first season — but the consequence of that success, of course, is that parodies are bound to ensue. Of all the satire that’s been created, though, The Fine Bros. are probably the […] Read more »
The delightful thing about Americans is that you can’t define them by just one stereotype — there’s a wide diversity of crude and cruel tropes available for mockery. In the Iron Sink Media-produced Freakdom of Speech, America — as depicted by Patrick Bristow (a Groundlings comedy […] Read more »
With the FOX juggernaut American Idol once again rearing its culture-saturating head, it can feel downright impossible for a non-watcher to remain a functional member of society. In today’s Station Conversation, Liz Shannon Miller and Jill Weinberger discuss what happens when the lazy blogger’s last refuge […] Read more »
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 »
If you’re trying to build the kind of sexy buzz that only reaches the ears of the linked in and wired — say, the tech-savvy affluent folk with Showtime subscriptions — maybe the kind of blitz currently being enjoyed by The United States of Tara isn’t […] Read more »
Hey, Weezer, you know when a friend tells you a joke that’s really funny, and you laugh? And then the next day, they tell that joke again, and it’s slightly less funny? And the next week, they tell the joke one more time, maybe switch up […] Read more »
Confession: when I think Pulitzer, I think hard-hitting investigations and thoroughly researched journalism. I don’t necessarily think YouTube. That’s my mistake, though, because yesterday YouTube announced the winner of its Project: Report competition, a collaboration with the Pulitzer Center to find aspiring journalists who focus on […] Read more »
The new year means new opportunities, even for web content you’ve previously dismissed. And so in today’s Station Conversation, Jill Weinberger and Liz Shannon Miller revisit future Late Night host Jimmy Fallon’s ongoing web prelude to his on-air series — which definitely gets their vote for […] Read more »
When reviewing the work of the American sketch comedy duo Dave & Tom, there’s an elephant in the room that needs to be addressed. It’s nigh impossible to discuss Dave & Tom without invoking England’s mighty Monty Python. It’s not simply that David Beeler and Tom […] Read more »
In Gold, we witness an American team striving for top prize in the world championship of a fantasy role-playing game known as Goblins & Gold. The Yanks have one goal: to snatch victory from the jaws of their gold-hogging archrivals, the Brits. Gold offers up an […] Read more »
With the economy continuing to crumble, it’s little wonder that even Hollywood turned to e-cards this holiday season — according to Variety, such a move has saved major studios up to $40,000 on printing and mailing costs. But what these old-school production companies are doing is […] Read more »
What does it take, being a good host? Being fast with the jokes? Managing to at least pretend to be interested in whatever the guest is promoting? Looking good in a suit? Not being afraid to poke a little fun at whomever they might be interviewing? […] Read more »
In the ever-evolving lexicon of lolspeak (the first human language to evolve from captions given to funny pictures of cats and other animals), subtlety is often lacking — things are either epic or lame, WIN or FAIL. And the capacity for failure is immense online, a […] Read more »
In preparation for the last half of Battlestar Galactica‘s final season, the show’s creators are once again casting a few breadcrumbs at insatiable fans. Battlestar Galactica: The Face of The Enemy is a 10-episode online sideshow revolving around Gaeta (Alessandro Juliani) and two Boomers (Grace Park), […] Read more »
Alleged serial killer Henry “The Overkiller” Graham sits on death row partaking of his last meal (a Hot Pocket) and awaiting his just deserts. All too soon, he’s led to the room where he’ll pay for his crimes — by being married off to his groupie-turned-fiancee […] Read more »
Video blogging, or “vlogging,” is still finding itself as a medium, exploring its artistic, didactic and philosophical potential. Arguably, the format’s greatest laureate is a now-retired vlogger by the name of Ze Frank, who ran a daily vlog for a full year, building a sizable audience […] Read more »
Are you experiencing some pre-election terror? No worries, you’re not alone. Today over on NewTeeVee Station, Jill Weinberger and I share some of our favorite non-political distractions as part of our weekly Station Conversation series. Below is one of our picks — an Eddie Izzard comedy […] Read more »
Most people, especially today, dream just a little bit of being an Olympic superstar. But what if you’re a Russian office worker stuck at a desk? Well, with the help of a video camera and four friends, you could just create your own event — synchronized […] Read more »
Need a quick break from the grind? WWD sister site NewTeeVee Station brings you Watercooler Clips, a selection from our collection of what’s good, interesting and/or of note in the online video world — whatever the web is talking about at the virtual watercooler. Today, it’s […] Read more »
Ready? OK! Liz already linked to our George Carlin memorial earlier, but today we also have Karina Longworth’s review of the new science comedy series Improbable Research Collections. How to describe it? Karina puts it best: “Have you long felt that the one thing the web […] Read more »
NewTeeVee Station, your hot new resource and debate center for online video, is almost a week old! If it were a baby human, it’d barely be able to look you in the eye. But because it is a baby website, it’s got a full week of […] Read more »
The revolution has not been televised. Well not recently, anyway. Oldteevee has given way to NewTeeVee, and suddenly we have a barrage of web video shows, some of them great, some awful, and the rest somewhere in between. So to help you find what you want to watch, may I present: NewTeeVee Station. Continue Reading Read more »
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