Web-only studios mature by mimicking 'old media'

Vuguru spent $300,000 to create the scripted series “The Booth at the End,” debuting in the U.S. this week on online video site Hulu.

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-0712-vuguru-20110611,0,7874437.story?track=rss

Critic's Notebook: Web TV is just waiting to click

Big-time entertainment companies want a piece of it, hoping to dominate an emerging market that none of them really understands.....

Read the full post:
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/tv/la-ca-web-tv-20110626,0,159877.story

Where Have I Been All My Life?

In which I return to YouTube and explain what I've been up to the past 500 years.

Vuguru Taps Fireworks, Bullish on International

Pretty Tough is the latest web series project that the studio is taking to the international markets hoping to entice buyers hungry for reasonably priced US entertainment content

http://news.tubefilter.tv/2010/09/27/vuguru-taps-fireworks-bullish-on-international/

A Brief History of the Web Series

In less than a decade, the online video industry has moved from a disconnected hodge-podge of animated shorts to a multi-billion industry.

Read the full post:
http://www.scriptmag.com/2010/08/12/a-brief-history-of-the-web-series/

Rogers Media to debut 'Prom Queen'

"Canada's Rogers Media is to debut the latest "Prom Queen: The Homecoming" web drama from Michael Eisner's Vuguru studio...."

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/world/news/e3i5b94756fffe163f9a4fd9e63afde7144

Rogers Media premieres Prom Queen: The Homecoming available online, on iPhone, and iPad

The newest installment in the Prom Queen series, will premiere on July 5, 2010, and is the latest show to be added to the Citytv.com multi-screen initiative, Shorts in the City presented by Nissan.

http://newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/June2010/30/c9286.html

Trailer:
http://video.citytv.com/video/detail/101450593001.000000/season-3-trailer/

On This Day In Webseries History: April 13, 2007

Three years ago yesterday, on April 13, 2007, Lonelygirl15 released the video The Perfect Beach.



In this fairly momentous video in the history of lonelygirl15, a main character (Jonas) pulls out a gun for the first time (and far from the last time). Aunt Alex also revealed that there is "another girl" that the Order is now after instead of Bree. This led to emergence of a slew of potential new trait-positive girls on YouTube, some who were fans and two of which were planted by the lg15 Creators (Taylor and Julia).

* The Perfect Beach on LGPedia
* The Perfect Beach lg15.com forum thread (which has 2 full pages of posts just waiting for the video to fully upload)
*The Perfect Beach old lg15.com comment board
* The Perfect Beach on old Anchor Cove
* Milowent: Attack of the Breeclones (April 2007)(about the New Girl invasion)

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Also happening three years ago yesterday, and also with a beach theme, the webseries Prom Queen released "Sex on the Beach", the thirteenth episode of the series.

Prom Queen Episode 13: Sex On The Beach

Prom Queen | MySpace Video

Season 3 of Prom Queen, reportedly called the "Prom Queen: The Homecoming" was filmed in 2009, but has yet to see a release date. It is expected to come out sometime this year, though.

* Prom Queen on Wikipedia
* Sex On The Beach on old Anchor Cove

Prom Queen DVD, and Season 3 coming?

I ran across a few things this morning: Prom Queen is on DVD now, and it sounds like there is a Season 3 is in the works, if yesterday's NY Times is to believed. Full assorted details here on Anchor Cove.

(Prom Queen was made by, Big Fantastic, the same creative team that has made Sorority Forever, Foreign Body, and Sam Has 7 Friends)