Moving TV shows online: Something To Be Desired (.com)

I don't watch TV - really, I don't. Except for shows for the kids, Barney et. al. I haven't turned it on in months.

But, TV-style progamming moving to the Web is fascinating.

Obviously you can't, or shouldn't, just take a show that could have been on TV and put in on the Internet instead. Some changes should be made - for example, Gilligan's Island episodes would be slightly different if optimized for the Web. Shorter bite sized segments for starters I'll guess.

Something To Be Desired, STBD.com for short, is a sitcom on the Internet. Call it a video podcast or vlog or whatever you'd like. It's amusing, professionally done, and engaging.

They describe themselves as:

Something to Be Desired is a web series (or web video series, or webcom, or webisodes, or whatever imprecise descriptor you'd choose to explain us to your friends) that follows a group of deejays at the fictitious WANT FM in Pittsburgh, PA. It's funny, it's frank and it's frustrating -- which pretty much sums up life in your mid-20s. And that's where most of the cast and crew of STBD find themselves.

and

"Think Friends, only funny, and completely uncensored"

More here. Yes, of course it's a video "More Here." And as Spock would say, "Fascinating."

Hmmm, this is their forth season. Gilligan's Island only lasted 3, plus a couple centuries of syndication (syndication may soon be an obselete concept - who knows for sure?).

Comments

[strangerswithcandy]

Yes! As I have been so eloquently saying for a long time now, is that online programming will soon replace television! I checked out the site, and enjoyed the episodes that I watched. Very mid-20s driven. I think it's amazing how these small time actors, producers, writers, directors are given the chance to show what they've got through a very powerful information medium.

I work with the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, and it's great online video content like this, that is being up for consideration at this year's Primtime Emmy broadcast. Yes, THE Primetime Emmys. We'll be honoring the best in web programming, and I'm urging anyone out there who reads this, to submit their webisodes to http://www.emmys.com before the deadline of April 7th.

Does anyone plan on submitting their work?