The team behind Lisa Kudrow’s Internet hit Web Therapy is at it again with a new web series set in the dying world of daytime soaps. Glee’s Jane Lynch will star in the 10-episode comedy Dropping the Soap playing Olivia Vanderstein, the new Head of the Network, who’ll try anything to save the long-running soap opera Colliding Lives.
Lynch and Kudrow are exec producers, along with Kudrow’s Web Therapy co-creator Dan Bucatinsky, screenwriter Don Roos (Marley & Me) and Damon Bethel and Joseph Gomes of Digital Broadcasting Group (which recently produced the Webby Award-winning drama The Confession,...
Lynch and Kudrow are exec producers, along with Kudrow’s Web Therapy co-creator Dan Bucatinsky, screenwriter Don Roos (Marley & Me) and Damon Bethel and Joseph Gomes of Digital Broadcasting Group (which recently produced the Webby Award-winning drama The Confession,...
- 3/11/2013
- by Mandi Bierly
- EW.com - PopWatch
The founding partners of the Digital Content NewFronts (aka the online video industry’s iteration of the television industry’s longstanding dog and pony show, which is produced with the intent to woo advertisers out of sizable portions of their yearly budgets) are starting to attract other notable new media studios and online video networks to the event. Hulu, Microsoft Advertising, AOL, Yahoo!, Digitas, and Google/YouTube will now be joined in evangelizing and selling original online video programming to brand marketers and their media and advertising agencies by Digital Broadcasting Group. The company behind online video hits (and sometimes major motion pictures), like the Kiefer Sutherland-starring The Confession and branded entertainment that’s actually good, like the Taryn Southern-starring The Single Life just announced it’s slated to present its upcoming slate of digital programming during Dcnf (aka Digital Content NewFronts) on April 23 in New York City.
- 3/21/2012
- by Joshua Cohen
- Tubefilter.com
Zooey Deschanel and Dbg are teaming up for season two of The Single Life. Digital Broadcasting Group is launching the show on HelloGiggles.com, a web portal founded last year by Deschanel along with her producing partners Sophia Rossi and Molly McAleer, who will serve as creative consultants on the project. The Single Life is a web comedy series that takes a look at the sometimes tumultuous, but always hilarious world of online dating. The series stars Taryn Southern and Jeremy Searle, who return as Lisa and Kip with a new set of digital challenges, now a year after their first online love connection. "After watching the first season of The Single Life, I knew it was a story that would resonate with our audience at HelloGiggles," said site co-founders McAleer, Rossi and Deschanel. "We’re thrilled to help Dbg bring the story of Kip and Lisa to an even wider audience than before.
- 1/17/2012
- by Drew Baldwin
- Tubefilter.com
Kiefer Sutherland is taking a leap from the TV screen to the computer screen with his upcoming webseries, The Confession. Sutherland is the creator and star of the Brad Mirman directed series scheduled to premier in March 2011. The series will also star two-time Academy Award nominee, John Hurt, Michael Badalucco, and Sebastian Beacon. The show consists of ten episodes broadcast over Hulu and is distributed by the Digital Broadcasting Group, distributors of 2010’s Control TV. Other executive producers include Chris Young and Joseph Gomes of Dbg and Maura Mandt of Maggie Vision. The Confession begins on Christmas Eve, with a hit man (Sutherland) visits a priest (Hurt) for to confess his sins. Throughout the series, viewers will be taken on a journey of flashbacks revealing what has brought the hit man to this place and revealing both characters to be complex and multi-layered. The dramatic ending culminates with a dramatic climax where the man,...
- 1/13/2011
- by Bree King
- Tubefilter.com
Kiefer Sutherland, internet star? That’s the plan: EW has learned exclusively that Sutherland will follow up his critically-beloved run on 24 with a web series that’ll bow on Hulu this March. Dubbed The Confession, the 10 five-to-seven-minute webisodes will feature Sutherland as a hitman who has a theological discussion with a priest (John Hurt of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows) about why his victims deserved to die. The series, which was written and directed by Brad Mirman, ends with one helluva twist.
“It came about in such a different way,” Sutherland tells EW exclusively. ”I was meeting a couple friends of mine,...
“It came about in such a different way,” Sutherland tells EW exclusively. ”I was meeting a couple friends of mine,...
- 1/12/2011
- by Lynette Rice
- EW - Inside TV
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