How Brown Girls Became 2017’s Indie TV Hit
How do you take a series from script to HBO and the Emmys in just a year? Tell a story that has never been told
My Book — Open TV: Innovation Beyond Hollywood — Now Under Contract!
My first book, Open TV: Innovation Beyond Hollywood, will be coming out on New York University Press, expected fall 2017. This book argues the web
The First Cycle of Open TV – Development Report 2
Welcome to the second development report for Open TV (beta)! This is your opportunity to get the inside scoop on how Open TV is developing
The State of Open TV — Development Report 1
HOW IS OPEN TV DEVELOPING? Aymar Jean Christian This time last year Open TV beta did not exist. It was a series of pilots called
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CHAPTER ONE HOW OPEN TV BEGAN: AN INTRODUCTION FROM CREATOR AYMAR JEAN CHRISTIAN Three years ago I moved to Chicago to start an exciting new
‘The Interview’ & The Power of Entertainment in International Affairs
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Ben Sinclair in “High Maintenance.” David Russell/HBO You know you’re a TV nerd when your most anticipated awards announcements are the Writers Guild Awards. TV is a writer’s medium. Every TV fan awaits the Emmys, [...]
You’ve probably never heard of “F to 7th.” A spin-off of “The Slope,” a Vimeo-based series about “homophobic lesbians,” “F to 7th” is a New York indie TV show from Ingrid Jungermann, who financed the recently-concluded second season with [...]
by Heidi Khaled and Brett Bumgarner Two shows, both held together by the common plotline of poop. Valerie Cherish sits down in her trailer with a producer for the HBO series in which she plays [...]
My first book, Open TV: Innovation Beyond Hollywood, will be coming out on New York University Press, expected fall 2017. This book argues the web brought innovation to TV development by opening distribution to independent [...]
by Heidi Khaled and Brett Bumgarner Two shows, both held together by the common plotline of poop. Valerie Cherish sits down in her trailer with a producer for the HBO series in which she plays [...]
How do we value television? It depends who you ask. Ask advertisers, and they’ll talk CPMs and ROI. Ask network executives, they’ll talk ratings. Ask fans, they’ll rave about their favorite shows or genres. Ask [...]
I’ve been writing about web video since 2009. I’m part of a tiny group of writers who have sustained interest in web television over the years, taking time to interview producers and write about [...]
It looks like the new television is here: a flexible, open industry more responsive to consumers and producers. Henry Jenkins’ textual poachers have become textual producers. Twenty years ago, audiences struggled to get power in [...]
Ylse is a 2008 sitcom about a modern Americana and the quirky characters around her. It won a 2010 Imagen Award for best Internet sitcom and the audience favorite at the 2009 Rasquache Film Festival. Ylse creator [...]
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