Prom Queen: Homecoming is sort of like the Duke Nukem: Forever of web series. The fourth installment in the Prom Queen series seemed like it would never make it to the Us after it was debuted on Canada's Citytv.com back in 2010. Now, after also finding its way to Japan, the high school mystery series has finally made it to American turf, debuting earlier in October on The CW's official website. Prom Queen was sold to The CW by Michael Eisner's Vuguru company and produced by Big Fantastic, makers of another early murder mystery series, Sam Has 7 Friends. Vuguru President Larry Tanz explained how the series came to the Us: "We always felt like Pq: Homecoming was a perfect fit for The CW audience. The CW has really started to push harder into original digital programming through CW Digital and that presented an opportunity to license the...
- 10/19/2012
- by Sam Gutelle
- Tubefilter.com
Chris McCaleb his team at Big Fantastic have been making shows on the internet even before anyone called them web series or channels. Those pre-YouTube days were ruled by the video podcasters, with iTunes one of the main funnels for distribution. Their early standout series like Sam Has 7 Friends and Prom Queen for Vurguru, and later Sorority Forever for Warner Bros. and live-streaming experiment ControlTV, gave him and his team a unique perspective on the shifting ebbs and flows of the online entertainment. Now, as the internet medium of transforms into its next iteration, we thought we would solicit some of that perspective. In our recent interview with Chris at VidCon, he talks about the early days of television they were just filming radio, but then I Love Lucy came around and changed everything, citing fellow video peers Tim Street and Steve Woolf. He cites YouTube family man ShayCarl...
- 9/24/2011
- by Marc Hustvedt
- Tubefilter.com
Big Fantastic has one of the more impressive track records in the web series circuit, tent-poled by their international breakout franchise Prom Queen. For years they have been the goto production house for studios like Michael Eisner’s Vuguru (Prom Queen, Foreign Body), 60Frames (Cockpit) and Warner Bros. (Sorority Forever). But now as the company prepares its first non-studio original series since their debut Sam Has 7 Friends, the company announced they have signed on as a new media signatories to the Writers Guild of America, West, under the WGA’s Minimum Basic Agreement (“Mba”). “The Guild has done a great job of recognizing and legitimizing the efforts of online creators like us,” said Big Fantastic’s Doug Cheney. “We chose to become a signatory now because it affords us tremendous opportunities as writers while allowing our company access to the vast WGA talent pool.” There’s been a fair...
- 2/24/2010
- by Marc Hustvedt
- Tubefilter.com
The final episode (above - warning: contains spoilers if you’re not caught up!) of Sorority Forever came out today at TheWB.com and MySpaceTV, closing this chapter of the 40-episode college sorority thriller. The Big Fantastic/McG-produced series, chock full of web stars — Jessica Rose (lonelygirl15), Taryn Southern (Private High Musical) and Mikaela Hoover (Sam Has 7 Friends) — had the web media hype-machine in full force this summer, us included, before its Labor Day debut. The first major scripted series out of Warner Bros.’ new digital portal TheWB.com, Sorority Forever has lived up to its end of the bargain in terms of viewership. Distribution partner MySpaceTV, who had a exclusive 48-hour window for new episodes, certainly delivered. They accounted for over 4 Million views for the series so far. TheWB.com hasn’t yet released viewership numbers for those shown on its own site, but it’s expected...
- 11/1/2008
- by Marc Hustvedt
- Tubefilter.com
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