Comments on: Is There a Place for Long-form Internet TV?

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NewTeeVee Pando Offers P2P Streaming - for Cheap « — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 23:31:04 +0000

[...] to offer their videos to be watched while being downloaded, which could be a real boon for encouraging long-form internet TV. Downloaders will have to have the Pando client, which has been installed 8.5 million times since [...]

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NewTeeVee » Inaugural NewTeeVee Pier Screenings Recap — Fri, 25 May 2007 16:58:51 +0000

[...] At the end of the night, the audience chose its winners. First prize went to Break a Leg, which had a sizable and rowdy home team crowd, and won the fawning adoration of would-be-Simon-Cowell Nick Douglas (see our previous coverage of the show). [...]

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Share… » Friday Vid Picks: Pier Screenings [NewTeeVee] — Sat, 12 May 2007 09:24:24 +0000

[...] NewTeeVee referred to the internet sitcom “Break a Leg” as “a poor man’s Arrested Development.” With rent due soon, I am loving Break a Leg (though I’m still re-Netflixing Arrested. I miss you George Michael.) [...]

By: George

George — Sat, 12 May 2007 01:46:50 +0000

This show isn't ahead of its time, its just boring.

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Media Cool Hunting » Blog Archive » Links from Last week — Thu, 03 May 2007 23:03:01 +0000

[...] Is There a Place for Long-form Internet TV? (NewTeeVee) Will the web ever go longform or will it always be snacks? [...]

By: Shakir Razak

Shakir Razak — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 02:04:09 +0000

The networks will re-assert themselves and their type of programming.

At the moment actual tv programmes (minus crap) are about 22 minutes anyway -so what difference, except production quaity. Which does mtter.

What might be accelerated is how much of non-network tv is stripped schedules; the internet allows a personalised version of that with shorter episodes. that's all. [like pre-developed 80-episode short-form runs].

Just as cable allowed, the current transition will allow a few new companies to develop and grow, in this current "new" sector, but just as IAC is already doing, this will all become part of the same media-empires we so love!

Ultimately, their might be some democratisation of cultural-seeding, but in the main, with the way the communiactions industry works, The internet will simply be a pipe, indistinguishable for the content it delivers via mobile, stb, mpc, broacast towers, dvb-h, games-system, mobile (cell) -including passed to/through mobile, but projected/played onto a big screen.

Content will be specially created for some fomats, but most likely it will be reversioned of un-broadcast/tertiary content when it's not the same universal content. [think summaries/synopsis, 7minute sopranos].

Yours kindly,

Shakir Razak

By: Yuri

Yuri — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 22:22:10 +0000

Thanks everyone for your comments and your varying points of view.

As far as having full TV on the Internet -- I'm going to have to disagree. I think it might be a concept that's harder to grasp now, but it was similarly hard to grasp when TV's first came out -- and that changed as well. I am of the opinion that -- if you tell them, they will come. The Internet is going to change entertainment, absolutely, but is it going to abolish long-form? I don't think so.

And, to please Liz -- I'll conclude with this: as audiences grow bored with kittens, they're going to come and watch Break a Leg... with... mittens.

I'm definitely not a poet.

-Yuri

By: alli

alli — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 19:09:11 +0000

it really does not justice to the show to watch it with youtube’s notoriously crappy video quality. you can see it on brightcove with much less strain to the brain (that rhyme’s for you, liz).

http://www.brightcove.com/channel.jsp?channel=474416516

By: mitch.s

mitch.s — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 17:59:33 +0000

edd:

um, if it were that easy, everyone would be doing it (I know, that's a cliche, but, there's a reason cliches exist).

try running your numbers with an ad supported model with a net $5/cpm back to Producers -- 1000x5x10=

-- mitch

By: edd

edd — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 17:49:33 +0000

I watched Break A Leg six months ago when the first ep came out, and it’s ok.
Lets take Arrested Development, whose figures of 3m could not cut it on Fox, but probably, around the world, has over 10m fans.
If the cast/crew made an episode, and distributed it securely for $1 per episode, each episode would rake in $10m dollars at a cost of $1.3m dollars (average cost of this show’s episodes).
That would be fantastic – AD should not have died, it’s just too good for that. There’s a big profit to be made and I wish this show came back this way.