Here's an excellent Brooklyn-based youtube tv show: WE NEED GIRLFRIENDS
02-09-08 | 06:28 PM
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Here's an excellent Brooklyn-based youtube tv show: WE NEED GIRLFRIENDS
This online webshow - WE NEED GIRLFRIENDS - is really addictive. I highly recommend to watch the first 4 episodes - 3 and 4 are really funny. This show I think is especially for NYC/Brooklyn folk. Check out the first one here. I hope these guys get funded to do a tv show on cable...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omE_8VJN9Eo
02-10-08 | 12:09 PM
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That's good that they may get a shot at CBS, it would be better on cable, but CBS is certainly a way to get their foot in the door. Sort of reminds me of a Brooklyn version of Coupling (the first seasons before it got all serious and Jeff leaving)...
02-11-08 | 06:51 AM
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It's pretty cool how the likes of youtube have given creative people an opportunity to break into bigtime showbusiness where no chance would've existed otherwise.
02-11-08 | 10:16 AM
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so i watched these all over the past few nights. actually pretty funny. should be interesting to see what CBS does with casting - to me, the guy who plays the main guy (Tom) could easily be replaced, but the guy who plays the short guy (Henry) was actually pretty good. And i think anyone could play the third guy (Rod), honestly. I like the guy that plays rod, but he's certainly not amazing.
02-11-08 | 11:17 AM
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Thanks for sharing--I found these pretty funny. If CBS grabbed it, I think I'd watch.
edit: LOL that 5th episode was the best yet.
edit: LOL that 5th episode was the best yet.
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02-11-08 | 02:06 PM
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I also like how it's not claustrophic - a lot of real outside Brooklyn scenes. If it ever gets primetime, I'm afraid that it will become a "stage set" show like Friends, becoming claustrophobic...I'm guessing that all their outside scenes are guerrilla filmmaking - can't imagine them asking permission...
Definitely a great "scab" show till The Office comes back when this strike is over!
If they do change actors, I do hope they keep the "Rod" actor - he personifies a typical funny Brooklyn tool...
Definitely a great "scab" show till The Office comes back when this strike is over!
If they do change actors, I do hope they keep the "Rod" actor - he personifies a typical funny Brooklyn tool...
02-11-08 | 02:34 PM
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How exactly did CBS even catch wind of this?
Is this a situation where the person who wrote it is a writer in Hollywood, and instead of just pitching a script to studios, he decided to turn it into an online web series to showcase what the show could indeed look like?
Or, is this just a few people getting together, and creating a show because they enjoy doing it, and they just lucked up in it becoming popular enough that CBS comes calling?
Is this a situation where the person who wrote it is a writer in Hollywood, and instead of just pitching a script to studios, he decided to turn it into an online web series to showcase what the show could indeed look like?
Or, is this just a few people getting together, and creating a show because they enjoy doing it, and they just lucked up in it becoming popular enough that CBS comes calling?
02-11-08 | 03:24 PM
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I also like how it's not claustrophic - a lot of real outside Brooklyn scenes. If it ever gets primetime, I'm afraid that it will become a "stage set" show like Friends, becoming claustrophobic...I'm guessing that all their outside scenes are guerrilla filmmaking - can't imagine them asking permission...
02-12-08 | 03:15 PM
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Here's the press release regarding CBS picking this up--from their website:
"Sex and the City" creator Darren Star has teamed with CBS to develop a comedy based on the Web series "We Need Girlfriends."
The network has handed out a script commitment to the project, which would be written by Steven Tsapelas, Angel Acevedo and Brian Amyot, the masterminds behind the original series that has drawn as many as 700,000 views per episode on YouTube during its 11-episode run.
The online "Girlfriends" chronicles the adventures of Tom (Patrick Cohen), Henry (Seth Kirschner) and Rod (Evan Bass), recent college graduates struggling to understand the complex world of the New York dating scene after they are simultaneously dumped by their long-term college girlfriends.
Star will executive produce "Girlfriends" for CBS and Sony Pictures TV, with Dennis R. Erdman and Clark Peterson serving as co-exec producers.
It has been a busy development season for Star. He is executive producing the ABC comedy pilot "Literary Superstars," starring Jenna Elfman, and has several projects in the works at other broadcast nets, including the one-hour "Raffik," from writer Anthony Horowitz, set up at Fox.
Star, who also is writing and executive producing "Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl," a comedy series project for HBO, is repped by WMA and attorney Jamey Cohen.
The network has handed out a script commitment to the project, which would be written by Steven Tsapelas, Angel Acevedo and Brian Amyot, the masterminds behind the original series that has drawn as many as 700,000 views per episode on YouTube during its 11-episode run.
The online "Girlfriends" chronicles the adventures of Tom (Patrick Cohen), Henry (Seth Kirschner) and Rod (Evan Bass), recent college graduates struggling to understand the complex world of the New York dating scene after they are simultaneously dumped by their long-term college girlfriends.
Star will executive produce "Girlfriends" for CBS and Sony Pictures TV, with Dennis R. Erdman and Clark Peterson serving as co-exec producers.
It has been a busy development season for Star. He is executive producing the ABC comedy pilot "Literary Superstars," starring Jenna Elfman, and has several projects in the works at other broadcast nets, including the one-hour "Raffik," from writer Anthony Horowitz, set up at Fox.
Star, who also is writing and executive producing "Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl," a comedy series project for HBO, is repped by WMA and attorney Jamey Cohen.
