Tweet Thanks to Racialicious for linking! If you pay attention to web shows by and about people of color, you probably have come across 12 Steps to Recovery, a romantic comedy series about Parrish Diaz, a jingle composer and actor dealing with a hard break-up. In the show, Parrish’s friends decide the only way he’ll get [...]
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Web Series Spotlight: ’12 Steps’ Creator on Financing, Producing Independent Black Stories
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on October 12th, 2011
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Web Series Spotlight: An Indie Series Goes Full-Length
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on October 3rd, 2011
Tweet Whenever any indie series makes it to its third season, it’s cause for celebration. But when a show enters its third season with full-length, 20-minute episodes, it raises an extra eyebrow. Drama Queenz is likely the web’s longest-running black gay web series. I’ve profiled it before, but creator Dane Joseph caught my attention after I saw [...]
Web Series Spotlight: ‘Osiris’ Diversifies Sci-Fi With A Smart, Immortal Soul
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on September 28th, 2011
Tweet I recently explored the growth of diverse sci-fi/fantasy shows on the web using the new original series Osiris as a perfect example. The show, which has received some publicity help from the awesome Shadow and Act, is sleek thriller about a man named Osiris who cannot die, instead resurrecting each time after he’s killed. He’s 300 years [...]
Web Shows Trek Past Sci-Fi’s Color Line
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on September 28th, 2011
Tweet Thanks to Racialicious for reposting! From Blacula to Sleep Dealer, filmmakers of color have always been interested in science fiction and fantasy. But these days in Hollywood, sci-fi/fantasy films demand big budgets, and it seems like only Will Smith and Denzel Washington are powerful enough to greenlight a genre film starring an actor of color. [...]
Web Series Spotlight: ‘The “F” Word’ Brilliantly Satirizes Indie Music Production
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on August 30th, 2011
Tweet A funny thing can happen on your way to success: people start paying attention to your other projects! One happy consequence of Issa Rae’s incredible success with Awkward Black Girl has been greater attention on her “other” web series — her first — Fly Guys Present The “F” Word. Premiering in late 2009, The “F” Word follows [...]
‘Asylum’ Preps Season Two As Cable Embraces Ambitious Web Projects
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on August 12th, 2011
Tweet BET surprised a number of video producers this year when it announced it picked up four series for online distribution, many of them serious scripted dramas edgier than BET’s on-air fare. During a panel held at CAA at ITVFest, the tone coming from executives Martez Moore and Monique Ware was clear: they are committed. [...]
‘Awkward Black Girl’ Creator Issa Rae Talks Crowdfunding, Indie Production and Moving From Web to TV
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on August 10th, 2011
Tweet Posted at Tubefilter. Even today, when I mention I write about web series, I get nonplussed looks and requests for examples. But there is one series I see friends consistently cheer and evangelize: The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl. “Have you seen it?!” I hear. “You have to see it!” It’s quite a feat [...]
Web Series Spotlight: ‘Chrysalis’ Delivers Baltimore Noir With Black Muslim Characters
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on August 3rd, 2011
Tweet Thanks to Racialicious for reposting! “Web Series Spotlight” is a regular feature showcasing a random indie web series I feel is culturally relevant, artistically notable or just plain interesting. This week I’m starting a new feature on this blog called “Web Series Spotlight.” I regularly get pitched series by creators and find it difficult to [...]
BWE: A New Web Network Targeting Black Women
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on June 22nd, 2011
Tweet You may not have heard of BWE, the Black Women’s Entertainment Network, but if you’re an aspiring TV writer you might have heard of a certain $10,000 contest for web series pilots starring black women. “It gets people in that mindset of, ‘yea, let me create something for a black female lead,’” BWE CEO [...]
‘Hollywood Houseboys’ Creator Ryan Hope on Reality TV, Independent Production and Trying to Make It
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on June 1st, 2011
Tweet Recently I wrote about the proliferation of gay reality series on the web, and I thought I’d published an email interview I did with the producer of one of the shows, Hollywood Houseboys. The show is quite good; it’s a well-cast and entertaining look at a oft-overlooked slice of Los Angeles. The series follows [...]
