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Burning Love | Ken Marino stars as fireman-turned-reality-show-contestant Mark Orlando in a star-studded spot-on spoof of The Bachelor. Backed by Ben Stiller, this reality-tv farce also stars Kristen Bell (House of Lies), Adam Scott (Parks and Recreation) and comedian Michael Ian Black. A notable Friends star, one who experienced a very public real-life break-up, makes a cameo in the first episode.
Daybreak | Tim Kring (Heroes) has created a suspenseful, five-episode series that’s loosely...
Burning Love | Ken Marino stars as fireman-turned-reality-show-contestant Mark Orlando in a star-studded spot-on spoof of The Bachelor. Backed by Ben Stiller, this reality-tv farce also stars Kristen Bell (House of Lies), Adam Scott (Parks and Recreation) and comedian Michael Ian Black. A notable Friends star, one who experienced a very public real-life break-up, makes a cameo in the first episode.
Daybreak | Tim Kring (Heroes) has created a suspenseful, five-episode series that’s loosely...
- 6/7/2012
- by Sheryl Rothmuller
- TVLine.com
Sonia Gil, host of weekly online travel show Sonia's Travels and winner of the People's Voice Webby Award for Best Web Personality, is leading five of YouTube's biggest names on The Tuber Tour, a 99-hour trip through Barcelona, Spain. Joe Penna (MysteryGuitarMan), Nikki Phillippi (NikkiPhillippi), Sorted Food (SortedFood), Meghan Camarena (Strawburry17), and Wheezy Waiter (WheezyWaiter), will be releasing video recaps of their travel experiences and discoveries in Barcelona over the course of the three and a half day tour. "We were so overjoyed at the audience response to the show that ultimately snagged us the Webby Award," said Gil. "As we continue to grow and expand the property, we are thrilled join Big Frame as we continue to fully realize the immense potential of Sonia's Travels." The Tuber Tour will also invite one lucky viewer to join in on the fun. Sonia's Travels talent signed on with management firm and media company Big Frame,...
- 5/25/2012
- by Drew Baldwin
- Tubefilter.com
The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences announced the winners of its 16th Annual Webby Awards early Tuesday morning. The Academy (comprised of the likes of high-profile internet savvy individuals like Twitter co-Founder Biz Stone and The Huffington Post’s namesake Arianna Huffington) bestowed its highest honor of Webby Person of the Year upon Louis C.K., who recently made headlines and a lot of cash by self-distributing a video of his comedy special Live at the Beacon Theater (which soon inspired other comedians like Aziz Ansari to adopt a similar distribution tactic). Louis is accompanied by Juliette Lewis and Graydon Sheppard, who took home another special Iadas award of Webby Actresses of the Year for their role in the original Sh*t Girls Say video (despite, or perhaps because of the fact Sheppard is a dude in drag.) And the three of them are accompanied by a few dozen individuals,...
- 5/1/2012
- by Joshua Cohen
- Tubefilter.com
There’s an underrepresented genre in independently produced online video. That genre is travel. You can find a glut of beauty, fitness, fashion, food, and even special effects programming online, made by basement-born YouTube phenoms who shoot in their bedrooms with whatever webcam comes pre-installed on their computers (or at least some of them did shoot in their bedrooms with whatever webcam comes pre-installed into their computers before they had multi-million subscriber followings and the expendable cash for better equipment). There’s a reason for that glut, too. Showcasing the metallic hued possibilities of the latest Maybelline eye liner, talking about what accessories may or may not go with that azure silk top you found on Of a Kind, showing off those abs, preparing one pot meals, and/or playing basketball with a space portal takes personality, creativity, skills, and your basic production gear, but not a whole heck of a lot else.
- 3/28/2012
- by Joshua Cohen
- Tubefilter.com
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