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Crowfunding Campaigns to Watch: ‘The Couple’ and ‘Everyday Is Like Sunday’
From Undercover Brother to The Confession, the web series-to-film route has been traveled before. But except for standouts like Four-Eyed Monsters, rarely do low-budget indies transition from computer...
View ArticleCan Al Thompson Strike Gold On ‘Lenox Avenue’?
Final version posted at Tubefilter. Have you ever heard of the “Al Thompson hustle“? It’s a specific kind of hustle familiar to web television aficionados. For years, actor-producer Al Thompson made...
View ArticleWeb TV Catch-Up: Learning Town, Famous Farrah, Coogan Auto, Chloe and Zoe
I’m always getting pitched web series. Being just one person, I never have the time to write about all of them. In the past I’ve tried to spotlight interesting shows and cover crowdfunding campaigns....
View ArticleWeb TV Catch-Up: The Couple, Squaresville, Burning Love, F to 7th, Awkward...
A lot of exciting series have been premiering and finishing over the past few weeks! Here’s what to look out for. The Couple As the Black & Sexy team prep a feature-film version of their hit...
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Why I Produced The Web Series ‘She’s Out Of Order’
Over the next few weeks and months the Internet will get yet another web series, but this time I have a hand in it! I put on my producer hat and helped shepherd a new comedy, set for release this...
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Pioneering Underground TV (BLACK&SEXY TV)
BLACK&SEXYTV is an independent video network on YouTube. An outgrowth of Dennis Dortch’s 2008 feature A Good Day to Be Black and Sexy, it has released five episodic series, including The Number,...
View ArticleZombies Beat Humans on Television
This post was originally published at Flow TV (click for footnotes). On a recent episode of the Melissa Harris Perry Show – a stellar example of what’s possible in the expanding field of TV news – I...
View ArticleThe Black TV Crisis And The Next Generation
In 2011 New York’s Diana Scholl asked Issa Rae if she was planning to turn her hit web series, The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl, into a full-length TV show. At the time her first season was...
View ArticleThe Diverse World of Web Drama
The first season of Hulu’s “East Los High” brought revelations of cheating, pregnancy, rape, HIV diagnosis, sexting, deceit, molestation, bullying, theft and murder, gracefully anchored by an...
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Emerging on the Side Stage: A New Era for Women on HBO
by Heidi Khaled and Brett Bumgarner Two shows, both held together by the common plotline of poop. Valerie Cherish sits down in her trailer with a producer for the HBO series in which she plays a...
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