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August 3rd, 2009Industry News
Similar to Motown Initiative’s plan to produce original content, Fox Television Studios is quietly rolling out a new digital arm called 15 Gigs (apparently a pun on “15 seconds of fame.”) While we weren’t able to get official comment from Fox, it’s quite clear what’s going on, given 15 Gigs‘ Hulu, YouTube and Facebook presences.The effort has so far produced six web series, with the latest one, a behind-the-scenes at a strip club called Tease, set to launch Thursday, according to its co-creator Micah Goldman. In at least the case of Tease, Fox has told its producers that they are treating the series as a TV pilot. If its three episodes do well online, Fox is committed to pitch it as a half-hour TV show to broadcast and cable networks, said Goldman in an interview with NewTeeVee.
[Source : NewTeeVee]
Tags: content, distribution, fox
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I caught the subway down to wall st. today to meet with an up and coming niche content site, DramaFever.com. I arrived a little early to this fancy coffee shop called the “financier”. It was like Starbucks with a french twist. I didn’t really want anything they had on their menu, but it seemed i had a few minutes to wait, and I didn’t want to just appear like some bum taking a breather in their sitting area, so I got an ice coffee. For some reason i thought it was going to taste like the iced coffee or thai tea I used to have back in my Univ of Michigan days, but i was quite wrong. It tasted terrible, its apparent I’m not a coffee drinker on any level. Just as I was going for another gut wrenching sip, I was in luck, the Drama fever crew had arrived and I could just let the cup sit as decoration.
