In April 2014, Dailymotion announced Jump Outs, an unscripted series that pits an elite team of policemen against three groups attempting to evade them. A year later, as first reported by The Hollywood Reporter, Jump Outs has arrived as the latest piece of Dailymotion's original video plans.
The "Jump Out Boys" are elite officers known for their aggressive policing. In the web series, an amulet has been placed in a Long Beach neighborhood, and three teams must retrieve it and bring it home without getting caught. Each team has its own defining characteristic: One is made up of skateboarders, another of parkour athletes, and a third of soccer players. It's The Amazing Race meets Cops and Robbers.
"We wanted realism to be part of the show," said Tom Bannister of Sxm, which produced the show. "There are a lot of great reality TV shows, but they often feel like people are playing a role.
The "Jump Out Boys" are elite officers known for their aggressive policing. In the web series, an amulet has been placed in a Long Beach neighborhood, and three teams must retrieve it and bring it home without getting caught. Each team has its own defining characteristic: One is made up of skateboarders, another of parkour athletes, and a third of soccer players. It's The Amazing Race meets Cops and Robbers.
"We wanted realism to be part of the show," said Tom Bannister of Sxm, which produced the show. "There are a lot of great reality TV shows, but they often feel like people are playing a role.
- 4/14/2015
- by Sam Gutelle
- Tubefilter.com
Dailymotion continues to scale up its original web series library. At the MipTV Media Markets in Cannes, the French online video platform announced Jump Outs, a TV-length reality program set in a suburban California neighborhood. Jump Outs takes its name from the "Jump Out Boys", a group of elite police officers who will feature in the show. They will attempt to track down three groups of contestants, each of which are trying to transport an "amulet" across an abandoned neighborhood. The series is produced by Sxm, which previously helmed web series like Easy to Assemble and Fact Checkers Unit. This time, the company is taking aim at "young adult audiences who’ve grown up with YouTube,” according to Sxm CEO Tom Bannister. “We want Jump Outs to have the irreverent feel of a videogame like Grand Theft Auto, with hip-hop music, but with a structure which is recognizable enough for...
- 4/9/2014
- by Sam Gutelle
- Tubefilter.com
We profiled a number of notable goings-on at this year's SXSW, but at least one deserves special note. Break Media, which runs top YouTube channels such as Break and Screen Junkies, will debut Armed Response at the festival, with a panel featuring the series' creators and distributors accompanying the release. Armed Response is a somewhat bare bones action thriller, stripped of pretension: Bad guys there, good guys here, let's take 'em out. If the trailer is any indication, it will be very violent, extra bloody, and plenty loud. The series makes liberal use of first-person and split screen cameras, because when you don't use an actual video game as your source material, the surest way to ensure the young men on YouTube will watch your show is by making it seem like it's a video game. Armed Response will screen for the first time at SXSW, and series creators Tom Bannister...
- 3/8/2013
- by Sam Gutelle
- Tubefilter.com
Exclusive: Break Media is adding a high octane new channel to their portfolio, just in time for SXSW. The male-targeted online network is launching their new YouTube channel Hardcoded with a web series that blends found footage with episodic action, starring James Kyson (Heroes), Camille Guaty (The Vampire Diaries), Wes Chatham (The Unit), Patrick Fabian (The Last Exorcism), and Jason Manuel Olazabal (Make It Or Break It). Armed Response follows members of a Swat team as they battle a Mexican drug cartel at the Port Of Long Beach and unfolds entirely through helmet-mounted cameras and security footage. SXSW audiences will get a sneak peek at the four-episode series on Saturday, March 9 when director Justin Lutsky, Break Media Svp Greg Siegel, and Sxm’s Thomas Bannister and Matt Michnovetz host a panel in the fest’s Digital Domain section. (Watch an exclusive trailer below.) The first episode will debut on YouTube...
- 3/7/2013
- by JEN YAMATO
- Deadline TV
James Franco is many things. The 34-year-old that starred in Paul Feig and Judd Apatow’s cult now-kinda-classic NBC series Freaks and Geeks is an actor (obviously) and also an acting coach, web series creator, web series producer, Oscars host, author, student, professor, in-class snoozer, and (insert another job description here that - along with the ones listed above - is an impossibility for one human without superhuman abilities - or one of these - to possess). But is James Franco pregnant? Maybe! And we’ll know for sure after the Fact Checkers Unit has completed its investigation. You may be familiar with Fact Checkers Unit: Fcu from when the original web series first debuted as an original independent short film and Official Selection of the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. The funny flick was created by and stars Peter Karinen and Brian Sacca (aka comedy duo Pete and Brian). It’s a fast-paced,...
- 5/25/2012
- by Joshua Cohen
- Tubefilter.com
Director Dan Beers and Executive Producer Thomas Bannister of the Web series "Fcu: Fact Checkers Unit" sit down with Mm to chat about their Web series, the latest episode of which, starring James Franco as a possibly pregnant supergenius version of himself, premieres... well, right now. Read the interview, then check out the "Fcu" episode "James Franco is Preggers," embedded below for your viewing pleasure.
- 5/25/2012
- MovieMaker.com
The showrunner behind "Fcu: Fact-Checkers Unit" explains the art of product integration and the power of celebrity.
Does Alex Trebek shave against the grain? Does Karolina Kurkova use Spf 125? These are the do-or-die details magazine underlings Russell (Peter Karinen) and Dylan (Brian Sacca) must confirm in the new eight-episode NBC Digital series Fcu: Fact-Checkers Unit. [Ed. note: We feel their pain.] We called executive producer Tom Bannister, whose production company, Sxm, also helmed NBC's well-received Web series Ctrl (starring Arrested Development's Tony Hale as an office-worker with a magical keyboard), to get the inside scoop on Fcu, which debuted this week.
Fast Company: Fcu is based on a 2007 short film of the same title. How did you decide to turn the standalone movie it into a series?
Tom Bannister: All of our branded shows so far have come from short-form pieces of content--films, Web videos, etc.--that we have seen and fallen in love with.
Does Alex Trebek shave against the grain? Does Karolina Kurkova use Spf 125? These are the do-or-die details magazine underlings Russell (Peter Karinen) and Dylan (Brian Sacca) must confirm in the new eight-episode NBC Digital series Fcu: Fact-Checkers Unit. [Ed. note: We feel their pain.] We called executive producer Tom Bannister, whose production company, Sxm, also helmed NBC's well-received Web series Ctrl (starring Arrested Development's Tony Hale as an office-worker with a magical keyboard), to get the inside scoop on Fcu, which debuted this week.
Fast Company: Fcu is based on a 2007 short film of the same title. How did you decide to turn the standalone movie it into a series?
Tom Bannister: All of our branded shows so far have come from short-form pieces of content--films, Web videos, etc.--that we have seen and fallen in love with.
- 8/18/2010
- by Dan Macsai
- Fast Company
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