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Amazon Rejects 'Zombieland' Series

by | May 17th, 2013

Amazon is deciding which of its eight comedy pilots are getting picked up this week, and it looks like Zombieland won't be one of them. "Our Zombieland series will not be moving forward on Amazon," the show/movie's co-creator Rhett Rheese tweeted yesterday. He added, "Sad for everyone involved. I'll never understand the vehement hate the pilot received from die-hard Zombieland fans. You guys successfully hated it out of existence. Anyway, we did our best, and we're very proud of our team."  Zombieland was the only existing franchise, besides The Onion, that Amazon made into a pilot, but being compared to the movie it's based on didn't win the pilot any favors. The [...]

Streaming

Watch Some Clips from the Amazon Pilot 'Those Who Can't'

by | April 17th, 2013

Online retailer Amazon began developing a slate of original comedy pilots last year for their Amazon Instant Video. Here are two clips from one called Those Who Can't, a show about three immature teachers created by and starring Denver-based comedy group The Grawlix (Andrew Orvedahl, Adam Cayton-Holland, and Benjamin Roy). The pilot will debut on Amazon soon, alongside the streaming service's other comedy pilots. Amazon will decide which pilots to pick up to series based on how much people like them, which is really how regular TV should run.

Check out the other clip from Those Who Can't below:

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'Arrested Development' and Streaming Shows Are Eligible for the Same Emmy Categories as Regular TV Shows

by | February 20th, 2013

2013 looks like it could be the first year that streaming series from digital programmers like Netflix and Amazon go head-to-head with traditional TV shows at the Emmy Awards. The Emmys made a rule change to allow digital series to compete in the same drama and comedy categories that TV shows do back in 2008, but none have been nominated yet. The reason that may change this year is Netflix's high-profile launch of the Kevin Spacey/David Fincher drama House of Cards and the revived fourth season of Arrested Development.

With Amazon set to launch a bunch of original streaming comedy series in the next year, TV Guide [...]

HBO

Garfunkel and Oates' Excellent Pilot Is Now on HBO GO in Pieces

by | August 7th, 2012

Garfunkel and Oates were reported to have made a deal to shoot a pilot for HBO last year, and it appears this is what came of it: it's been cut into five shorts, all between three and six minutes long, available exclusively on HBO GO under the HBO Digitals banner. The one above is the second in the series, and it's a full-blown music video to go along with their song "Pregnant Women Are Smug." It's the only short that's solely a music video; the first one is about Jon Daly and Thomas Middleditch's unsuccessful hookup attempts with our heroes, for example, and they all fit together to [...]

Streaming

People Watched 1 Billion Hours of Netflix Last Month

by | July 6th, 2012

What did you do last month? The numbers suggest you probably watched a lot of Netflix. Netflix surpassed 1 billion hours of viewing in June. The average Netflixer watched 80 minutes a day of old episodes of Cheers, pop culture documentaries, and other desirables. These numbers would put them as TV's 7th most watched network and 2nd most watched cable network (right behind ESPN and ahead of Disney). As these numbers continue to increase, Netflix will continue to assert itself as a serious competitor to the networks, especially in terms of buying new series. And this is before they start having new episodes of Arrested Development and we all [...]

Arrested Development Development

You Will Have to Watch the New Season of 'Arrested Development' in Order After All

by | May 15th, 2013

It turns out that there will be an intended episode order for the new season of Arrested Development after all. Creator Mitch Hurwitz and Jason Bateman previously said that the 15 new episodes that make up Season 4 have no intended order because they each follow different characters simultaneously, but after finishing the final mix on the episodes, Hurwitz tweeted today, "Done! Just finished the final mix last night. In two weeks Arrested Development will be yours to do with as you please. Except for 1 thing! You gotta watch them in order. Turns out I was not successful in creating a form where the setup follows the [...]

Ratings

'Wired' Argues that "The Nielsen Family Is Dead"

by | March 20th, 2013

Wired has a piece out this week called "The Nielsen Family Is Dead," exploring the ways in which TV has left the Nielsen ratings system behind, thanks to Hulu, Netflix, Apple TV, Amazon Prime, Roku, iTunes, smartphones, tablets, Twitter, Trendrr, and a bunch of other stuff your parents aren't aware of yet.

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The 82 Best Comedies Currently Streaming on Netflix

by | February 13th, 2013

As Netflix becomes a spot for television binge-watching, ventures into the world of original content with House of Cards, and prepares to make a lot of people really, really happy by finally bringing back Arrested Development, it can be hard to remember what Netflix was originally there for — flix for the Net! Right?

The website is constantly adding a ton of new titles that can often slip by unnoticed if they don't make it into your homepage recommendations. Amid the weird knock-off movies and forgettable television that is forever at everyone's fingertips, there is also a pretty good amount of quality comedy on the streaming service.

Here are [...]

Daily Shows

Never mind, Keep on Streaming 'The Daily Show' and 'Colbert Report'

by | July 19th, 2012

Don't call it a comeback – they literally never left. Viacom wrote on their blog that they aren't taking episodes of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report off the Internet, after all. Nice bluffing, Viacom. We're going to go back to not caring about your corporate bullshit, cool?

The Times They Are A Changin'

Amazon Wants You To Help Them Make Original Comedy Programming

by | May 2nd, 2012

Amazon announced today that it will begin distributing comedy and children's programming directly to the consumer through their video streaming service, Amazon Instant Video. Amazon joining Netflix in the programming business is another step towards the content creation paradigm shift. Standard television ratings are plummeting, as people are looking for new ways to consume media. Amazon's hook is they are opening up submissions to anyone with a five-page treatment and a pilot script, which is everyone under 35 at this point. Once a month, they will choose a project and option it for $55,000, which a contact in the television industry explained, is about what cable networks [...]

Sequels

'Joe Dirt 2' Is a Real Thing That Is Happening

by | May 3rd, 2013

Don't worry, the Joe Dirt franchise is still alive and breathing. Crackle, Sony's digital network and studio, announced today that they'll be producing a sequel to the 2001 David Spade movie. The first film only grossed $27 million, but Spade cited the movie's high DVD sales at Wal-Mart (seriously) when he first started talking about a sequel in 2006. The sequel didn't materialize and Spade sold a Joe Dirt animated series to TBS in 2010. The project didn't move forward, but now Spade is prepping it as a digital movie for Crackle, to be released online streaming. A rep from Crackle said today that the Joe [...]

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Jon Daly Will Star in the Amazon Pilot 'Betas'

by | March 20th, 2013

Jon Daly, a regular actor and writer on Comedy Central's Kroll Show and the host of the Earwolf podcast Rafflecast, has been cast in the lead role in a new comedy pilot from Amazon, Variety reports. The show is called Betas, and it's one of several comedy pilots online retailer Amazon is developing in hopes of turning some of them into its first comedy series. Daly will star as Hobbes, a guy in Silicon Valley trying to raise money for his app called "BRB" so that he can move on from his ex-wife and reward the quartet of computer geeks who coded the app. The show [...]

Web Videos

Amazon Orders Six Comedy Pilots from The Onion, Kristen Schaal and More

by | December 20th, 2012

Amazon.com is continuing to develop its slate of original TV series, with a strong emphasis on comedy. The online retailer just announced six comedy pilots today, according to Deadline. Five of the shows are from TV industry veterans like Garry Trudeau, The Onion, and several Daily Show alums, while the sixth, Those Who Can't, is from a group of newcomers. Amazon offered to look at submissions from anyone who wanted to pitch a show a few months ago, and Those Who Can't is the first to be picked up from 2,000 series ideas they looked over. Once these six pilots are finished, they'll be posted on Amazon Instant [...]

The Simpsons

Why Can't We Stream Old Episodes of 'The Simpsons'?

by | July 9th, 2012

Over on Forbes, Adam Ozimek writes that the way Fox manages The Simpsons "is so ridiculous it disproves everything [he believes] about economics." The fact that you can't stream old episodes of The Simpsons online is so objectionable to him that he thinks the federal government should step in. Whatever allows us to stream "Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk" works for me.

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