Friday Rewind: Tubefilter News of the Week – October 17, 2008

There was no shortage of Big Apple fun this week on Tubefilter News. Monday came the news that NBC and SNL-producer Lorne Michaels are teaming up to launch a new web comedy portal on the backs of decades of old Saturday Night Live clips. Also out of New York comes news of Rod Corddry’s new medical comedy web series Childrens’ Hospital set for a December nod over on TheWB.com. Manhattan-based Norm Golden is proving that seniors can have some web fun too with his new series 50 to Death. And Brooklyn’s web creative duo Thom Woodley and Kathleen Grace caught us up on their latest series and what’s next for their indie-rockin All-For-Nots

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