web series
MyLifeAsEva, The Thinning and Lazer Team 2: YouTube Red expands original slate
August 6, 2016 | David FarnorYouTube is expanding its slate of original content, with a new series starring MyLifeAsEva, teen dystopian flick The Thinning and a sequel to Lazer Team.
YouTube’s subscription service, which is still not yet available in the UK, costs $10 a … Read More
Mina Murray’s Journal: James Moran unveils Dracula web series
July 28, 2016 | David FarnorUpdate: Episode 1 premieres on Thursday 29th September. Here it is:
Writer-director James Moran is bringing Dracula to the web this September in a brand new series based on Bram Stoker’s classic novel.
Mina Murray’s Journal will tell the … Read More
10 years on: How YouTube’s Lonelygirl15 help invent the web series
June 18, 2016 | David FarnorSay the words “Lonelygirl15” to someone these days and you’ll likely be met with faint recognition. “Oh yeah, that YouTube hoax”, they might say. “How long ago was that?” The answer is 10 years ago.
16th June 2006. That was … Read More
Star Wars gets its own YouTube web series
May 12, 2016 | David FarnorStar Wars has launched its own web series.
Called The Star Wars Show, the weekly YouTube show is a “digital variety series” that promises to showcase the “passion of the fan community”.
Shot at Lucasfilm headquarters in San Francisco, … Read More
Louis C.K.’s Horace and Pete review: Episode 9
April 7, 2016 | Craig SkinnerWarning: This contains spoilers. Not seen this episode yet? Catch up with our reviews of Horace and Pete so far here.
Louis C.K. is trying to do a lot of things with Horace and Pete. Sometimes certain ideas and approaches … Read More
UK web series review: Flight 462 (Fear the Walking Dead)
April 6, 2016 | David Farnor“Lights are going out everywhere…”
Fear The Walking Dead returns to UK TV on Monday 11th April, hot on the heels of The Walking Dead Season 6 finale. AMC’s prequel premiered on its own TV channel – available exclusively on … Read More
Louis C.K.’s Horace and Pete review: Episode 8
March 24, 2016 | Craig SkinnerWarning: This contains spoilers. Not seen this episode yet? Catch up with our reviews of Horace and Pete so far here.
Horace and Pete is a show that is littered with moments of sadness, bitterness and even tragedy, but there’s … Read More
Louis C.K.’s Horace and Pete review: Episode 7
March 19, 2016 | Craig SkinnerWarning: This contains spoilers. Not seen this episode yet? Catch up with our reviews of Horace and Pete so far here.
Following the events in last week’s episode of Horace and Pete, it was hard to imagine where C.K. could … Read More
Google Play web series review: Moon Shot
March 16, 2016 | David FarnorSpace. The final frontier. Unless you’re one of the people hoping to win Google’s reward for building a lander to the moon. That’s the Google Lunar X Prize, launched in 2007 to inspire entrepreneurs to invent affordable space technology – … Read More
Unbound: The David Bowie Instagram series designed to mystify
March 2, 2016 | David FarnorDavid Bowie was many things. Musician. Movie star. Fashion guru. Pop culture icon. Alien. Friend. Goblin king. Inspiration to be yourself. Cool. The list goes on, but now, you can add something else to it: web series creator.
Before his … Read More