Universal Cable Productions is a growing part of the NBC Universal family best known for creating popular shows for Syfy and USA Network (including Battlestar Galactica, Eureka, Psych, Royal Pains, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, and more). This particular arm of NBCU is looking to expand into short-form content in the near future. More specifically, Universal Cable Productions is launching a digital studio which will create both original web series and digital content derivative of its pre-existing TV properties. A television network/studio entering the digital marketplace isn’t anything new, but Comcast shuttered the NBC Universal Digital Studio (which was behind online originals like Fcu: Fact Checkers Unit and Ctrl) earlier this year. That makes this story particularly interesting. In an Ad Age article from last July, an NBC Universal spokeswoman explained Comcast’s decision to close the digital studio in the following terms: “Going forward we plan to focus...
- 9/28/2011
- by Chris Landa
- Tubefilter.com
The finale of Syfy's flagship military science fiction television series, Battlestar Galactica, aired March 24, 2009. In December 2009, the Paley Center for Media screened the premiere of Caprica - a BSG spin-off series that serves as a prequel to its predecessor. At the event, Tubefilter's Drew Baldwin spoke with BSG creator and exectuive producer, David Eick and asked whether we can expect to see a Caprica web series. Eick's response? "It's a possibility." Today we learned it's much closer to reality. According to Marueen Ryan, an online BSG series dubbed Blood & Chrome is in the works. Written by BSG and Caprica co-executive producer, Michael Taylor, the show will revolve around the experiences of a young William Adama during the first Cylon War. In the words of Taylor, B&C is "about a young man's initiation into war: both the realities of war as fought by soldiers on the ground (and in Battlestars...
- 7/28/2010
- by Joshua Cohen
- Tubefilter.com
Battelstar Galactica's follow up prequel series Caprica has pushed out their full pilot online (above) before its series premiere Jan 22nd on SyFy, and it reminds us that this may not be the only time the show flirts with web viewers. Streamy Award winner Jane Espenson is behind the series, along with fellow Battlestar writer Ronald Moore. Tubefilter's Drew Baldwin spoke with creator and Executive Producer David Eick ealier this year at the Caprica premiere screening at PaleyFest09, and asked whether we can expect a Caprica web series, he said, "it's a possibility." Arguably, this isn't much to go on. It's probably just a good excuse to show our readers the Caprica pilot. Battlestar did release a well-received web companion series—The Face of the Enemy—which picked up a Streamy last year, so this wouldn't be new ground for this group. We do hear that SyFy is looking to...
- 12/17/2009
- by Marc Hustvedt
- Tubefilter.com
It was a secret I was trying to keep, but I get all my comic book tutelage from A Comicbook Orange, and if you watch every episode you end up able to casually drop comic-cred names like Ben Templesmith, Chuck Bb and Marc Guggenheim at parties. Now on their fourth season, the prodigious creators Casey McKinnon and Rudy Jahchan, have rolled out five episodes of the latest batch, many coming from their summer trip down to comics mecca Comic-Con. The latest episode (above) peaked our interest even more when Battlestar Galacitca writer Jane Espenson, who also writes on Joss Whedon's Buffy Season 8 comic series from Dark Horse Comics, talks about her two Streamy Awards for the Battlestar Galactica: The Face of the Enemy web series. "They are on my bookshelves in a place of honor—I adore my Streamys," says Espenson in the interview. "They are my dear, dear prizes.
- 10/21/2009
- by Marc Hustvedt
- Tubefilter.com
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