Sony’s C-Spot Features Six Comedy Series
New Channel Available On Video Sharing Sites, Hulu, V CAST And BRAVIA TVs
By Linda Moss -- Multichannel News, 3/31/2008 7:50:00 AM
Six original short-form comedy series are now available on C-Spot, a new ad-supported, multiplatform comedy channel distributed by Sony Pictures Television, officials said Monday.
C-Spot features programming with continuing storylines, specifically produced for the web and mobile and programmed 52-weeks a year. The new channel is available on Crackle.com, YouTube, AOL Video, Hulu, Verizon Wireless’ V CAST Video service, and direct to Sony BRAVIA TVs via BRAVIA Internet Video Link.
“We’ve tapped very talented individuals, both established and up-and-coming, to create a spectrum of original Web series that showcase irreverent characters and stories,” said Sean Carey, senior executive vice president, Sony Pictures Television. “By updating the content daily, we’re looking to engage, entertain and continue to feed the appetite of digital media users seeking more than just one-off viral videos.”
The series showcased on C-Spot run the gamut from existing popular shows like Gorgeous Tiny Chicken Machine Show, which amassed more than 2 million views with the first two episodes that launched in 2007, to The Roadents, a new series taking a vanguard approach to flash-animation and developed by Bix Pix Entertainment, the creative team whose work has been featured on Saturday Night Live’s TV Funhouse.
Owen Benjamin, one of the top 10 comedians on MySpace who appears in the upcoming feature film, I Know What Boys Like, opposite Anna Farris and Colin Hanks and also headlines his own Comedy Central special later this year, stars in the new series Gaytown; while The Writers Room has Kevin Pollak as the domineering host of a late-night talk show.
