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Pioneering Underground TV (BLACK&SEXY TV)
BLACK&SEXYTV is an independent video network on YouTube. An outgrowth of Dennis Dortch’s 2008 feature A Good Day to Be Black and Sexy, it has released five episodic series, including The Number,...
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Indie TV and the Value of Post-Network Television
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,...
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Where Are The Web TV Critics? (Or, Why I Can’t Review Your Web Series)
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...
View ArticleOpen TV: Rescue Pilots from Development Hell
Originally published in Flow TV journal. Hold your mouse over footnotes (#) for more information. The Avengers, franchise of franchises, has invaded television. Last year in late July Deadline reported...
View ArticleCan The New York Television Festival Get Past the Pilot?
Originally posted on Tubefilter. If you’re an indie TV creator, you should know about the New York Television Festival. There are a lot of festivals for independent television, most of them for web...
View ArticleNYTVF: Digital Networks On The Hunt For Brands, Programming
Originally posted on Tubefilter. The New York Television Festival‘s annual Digital Day brought together network executives, creators and marketers to take about the state of the industry and offer...
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How To Value Television
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...
View ArticleTribeca NOW Catches Indie TV On the Cusp
Festivals can create new markets. Sundance ignited the independent film boom in the 1990s after a few of its selections did well at the box office and major studios started picking them up for...
View ArticleWhy “Views” Don’t Matter for Indie Web Series
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...
View ArticleHow ‘High Maintenance’ Became the Future of Indie TV
Years ago, producers of original web series would compare their projects to short films. The internet made short films irrelevant, they’d say, because you could build an audience yourself, rather than...
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