Great piece yesterday in the Sunday, June 26 Los Angeles Times (Robert Lloyd: Critic's Notebook) about the movement toward Web TV. Here's the money quote:
"Whether the Internet is the future of television or not, it looks like the future, the place the future wants to be. As the spoiler that steals eyes from established media and mediums, it announces itself again and again as the game that must be played. Big-time entertainment companies want a piece of it, hoping to dominate an emerging market that none of them really understands — they do not even understand whether it is in fact an emerging market — even as outsider artist-citizens see it as a way to breach the thick walls of show business in the not entirely paradoxical hope of being themselves admitted to the establishment."
Yeah, baby! A lot going on! I have producer friends with series headed for the Internet and I'm already a fan of The Bannen Way, Murder Squad, and others that are just incredibly well done. Web TV is still in its infancy, but I think this is the future. That's why name stars are moving to the Web.
Yeah, baby! A lot going on! I have producer friends with series headed for the Internet and I'm already a fan of The Bannen Way, Murder Squad, and others that are just incredibly well done. Web TV is still in its infancy, but I think this is the future. That's why name stars are moving to the Web.
It will be interesting to see where it goes, as studios have already been taking an interest in web content and making series out of them. (Quarterlife, etc and now Web Therapy and Children's Hospital). I just heard on NPR, however, that Hulu is on the auction block because the companies that own them (Disney, NBC and something else, I believe) aren't sure they want television to end up solely on the web just yet and Hulu is a speeding car in that direction they didn't know they themselves put out there...
ReplyDeleteOh now THAT's interesting! Sounds like they're removing themselves from the head of the parade instead of figuring out a way to make it work.
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