Blue Water High: Revolving around six Australian teenagers at a surf academy.
A Boy Wearing Makeup: A video diary about Mathieu Francis who dispenses makeup advice and fashion tips.
Sorority Forever: A mystery show.
A Josh Schwartz’s untitled music project, that looks behind the scenes of a fictional Hollywood rock club;
Rich Girl, Poor Girl: A reality skein from Laguna Beach creator Gary Auerbach;
Exposed: A thriller about a college student haunted by his past.
High Drama: Against All Oz: An unscripted series about a high school musical;
Chadam: An action-horror-adventure toon;
Downers Grove: About pals who stayed in the suburbs while the rest of their classmates went away to college;
Joni & Susanna: Revolves around two best friends/frenemies in their 20s.
Wow, I can’t wait… really. I can’t. In fact I won’t.
Not only can we see this on the web, but this new venture will be digitally splaying out the Warner Bros. Television Group offerings across digital platforms such as Dailymotion, Joost, Sling Media, TiVo and Veoh
It’s going to be an ad supported site which makes sense to me. They’ve already trapped some of my consumer information when they mandated I sign up before I do anything else, and then did nothing for it. Yep, classic network treatment.
Honestly, I know the web is the new direction of things to go. I can appreciate The WB trying to regenerate itself back into a programming entity, but I am not enthused, and no one’s sent me any press releases to inspire me beyond a “whatever”. For a second, at the beginning of reading the source article over on Variety, I had a bit of hope but it faded by the shoddy web site and the lack of response.
On the other hand: In the attempt to make something old into new, the site will be making it easier to spread the word with social networking options (Facebook) and adding tools that will let you, the visitor create your own mashups of the shows.
HA! Now we’re talking!
I’d instantly mash Firefly and Roswell into Firefly Finds New Mexico. I’d squeeze Friends into Gilmore Girls and slap them all into Smallville! and call it The End of Many Annoying People. I’d pull out Clark and put him in Babylon5 and I’d replace Clark on Smallville with Veronica Mars. Veronica would then get into a hair pulling, mud slinging fight with Chloe while the supervillians all destroyed the Gilmore Girls and the cast from Friends. HA!! There is hope for this idea yet!! Hahah.. (Sound of evil, satisified laugh fading to black.)
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Does anyone else find it funny that one of their premier programs is a show that they CANCELED half way through the first season??!!
…I miss Firefly
So, they’re starting out with at least half a dozen shows that have been released, in their entirety, on DVD, not counting a show canceled halfway through the first season and then released on DVD, and at least one or two shows that are still airing new episodes? Then they’re following up with ten shows that sound like they’re not going to have much appeal at all, including a reality show, all of which are expected to be watchable on sites where you don’t have to register to watch them?
Somehow, this sounds like a very poorly thought out plan.
Ya, call me when they bring back Firefly, lol.
I think I’ll stick to downloading my TV shows to watch on my computer rather than through low-quality streams in browsers. I hate watching vids in browsers.
From your article, it sounds like whoever’s making the decisions isn’t thinking much. Stuff like that make projects fail before they start. A second e-mail, up to a week away, to confirm? what?
Sometimes, I can’t decide: Watch stuff on the new WB web site, watch grass grow, or taste test my dogs ‘doggie-treats’?
Hmm… I have to think on this one.
“You gotta be in the USA to roll with us”
Too bad.
And yet another short sighted option.
Sorry about that Zlatan.
lol Bruce.
And good point Zlatan, I can’t stand all of these websites (ABC, NBC and now WB) restricting access so I can’t even watch any repeats of episodes on their sites. Convenient how they don’t restrict me access from seeing their stupid amount of advertisments and commercials.
Some of the Canadian broadcasters offer viewing on their websites and that’s mainly why other countries are excluded from U.S. website broadcasts (because of TV rights, etc. etc.). Kinda defeats the purpose of the freedom of the internet though.
I guess Torrents are the way to go for now.
After getting an e-mail from The WB about the new site, I also tried to sign up access. I got an e-mail saying they’ve be overwhelmed by requests and will let me know in a week if I will be approved. Strange. There’s also speculation that if this goes well, they might get their own cable channel. http://blogs.pioneerlocal.com/entertainment/
Hi Jenny,
Thanks for coming by and checking out the internet / network noise.
I’m surprised, disappointed and suspicious.
If you were trying to make a splash and a comeback in the eyes of the fans, I’d think you’d be better prepared with your website and not send out an email that sounds like one man is running the effort.
I’m suspicious because if the site will be ad supported, so far, all they’ve done is collect info from us with no return.
Have I passed judgment yet? Nope. Not going to waste my energy making a judgment.
I feel the NBC is the only network tv channel that has a load of good shows this coming season. Everything from “Life” to “Heroes.”
Funny you should say that Ash. I’m driving myself crazy… I mean compiling info for an article on the upcoming TV season.
Stay tuned.
I signed up for their beta ages ago, and I think they let me in, but I lost interest and never checked it out. I’ll have to dig up that email.
Bruce,
I look forward to your article!
I find it mindblowing that, with so much rubbish coming out of Hollywood, that Warners sit on two huge potential record breaking blockbusters and aren’t even aware of their own properties, while other rivals would cut their arms off to get hold of something so potentially million-selling and the chance of such box office runaway hits.
Firstly the ever brilliant Babylon 5. Ten years after it finished, it’s as popular as ever, and regarded worldwide with much more adoration than Star Trek, but is there any sign of a new movie or new series ?? Is there hell !!!!!
And fresh after the runaway success of the latest Batman film, the one DC Comic that’s screaming to be made into a motion picture is The Justice Society Of America (their most consistent selling comic book) but set in the 1940s against the Nazi threat, just as the original comic books were. No brainer, but as usual Warner Brothers sit in their complacency, paying obscene amounts to young yuppies to come up with new ideas when they haven’t got a single clue. It’s really sad, you know.
A Babylon 5 movie would sweep Paramount’s new Star Trek movie under the rug. A Justice Society Of America, dark and gothic, with Sandman, Starman, The Spectre, Doctor Fate, Hawkman, etc etc would top Batman at the box office.
But no……
They haven’t got a clue.
Meanwhile we have nothing better to go see than stupid super hero send-ups, and slushy love stories that bore 90% of the population.
SAD !!!!!!!!!!!
“Firstly the ever brilliant Babylon 5. Ten years after it finished, it’s as popular as ever, and regarded worldwide with much more adoration than Star Trek, but is there any sign of a new movie or new series ??”
Well, to be fair, the first two attempts at a B5 spin-off series failed. Granted one of them was killed by TNT before it aired and the other aired is pilot opposite the Superbowl, but neither one lasted long. I don’t believe the DVD of that one sold very well either, but I could be wrong about that. I also don’t know how well “The Lost Tales” sold.
Regardless, WB did have plans for a movie, but decided not to follow through after fans objected to the idea of recasting several major roles.
They’ve tried to capitalize on the B5 universe, they’ve just not been able to do so successfully. Whether that’s good or bad, I’m not sure.
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