Just in time for Halloween week, FEARnet launched its much-anticipated horror web series Fear Clinic today. After whetting appetites back in July at Comic-Con, the Robert Englund (Freddy from the Nightmare on Elm Street films) led thriller centers around a brilliantly creepy Dr. Andover (Englund) and his unlisted clinic for curing lifelong phobias.

Director Robert Hall, who comes from the world of visual effects, is a newcomer to web series. His Almost Human effect shop  was called on to produce the complex makeup and creature effects so far unseen in a web original. ”This looks like a nasty little Cronenberg film made for the web,” said Englund during our recent interview with him, referencing the venereal horror master.

“Fear is the little death that consumes you,” warns Dr. Andover in the opening episode (above) to an uneasy Lucas Till. Till plays Brett, a young guy looking to get over his hydrophobia (fear of water) in order to score his inheritance.  Other episodes, all penned by Aaron R. Drane, will try to shake out a handful of other fears we all might have—scotophopia (fear of the dark), and entomophobia (fear of insects), to claustrophobia (fear of small spaces) and misophobia (fear of being contained with germs or dirt).

The five-episode series is FEARnet’s seventh web original, and it aims to break past the success of its past stabs at web glory—30 Days of Night: Dust to Dust, Buried Alive, Stream and The Dark Path Chronicles. The online and VOD network boasts some 340 million total streams of its video series and full-length horror films, much of that coming from a plum placement on parent company Comcast’s on-demand cable lineup. Still, the distribution reach of FEARnet is sizable, especially for targeting a genre such as horror, which continues to be its bread and butter.

Joining Englund are Kane Hodder (Jason from Friday the 13th) and scream queen Danielle Harris (Halloween 2). “To have Robert Englund and Kane Hodder on board for our new series is exciting…both for us and for horror lovers everywhere,” said Diane Robina, President of FEARnet.

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Babelgum has been on a web series roundup of late, and these guys are moving fast. With news coming just two weeks ago of indie sci-fi series The Crew jumping ship to the online network as its news home for season 2, a fresh new batch of sci-fi series have followed suit. Today Babelgum announced three new original series, several of which are helmed by some web series notables, to make up the bulk of the sci-fi/horror comedy channel.

Launching today is a new series from Goodnight Burbank creator Hayden Black—no not The Cabonauts, which we’re still waiting on—but a hastily assembled paranormal comedy The Occulterers. The “interactive comedy and horror series” stars Black as one of his inventive characters, Hervé Villechez, this time part of a four-person Transylvanian ghost hunting crew.

Black’s new series took just two weeks from concept to production, and that includes inking the deal with Babelgum. “It’s been an exhilarating experience; from pitching it on a Monday, writing it over 2 days, to shooting it the next week,” said Black over email. “I still think it’s far better than it has any right to be.”

For casting, Black tapped a pair of Buffy vets in James C. Leary (Buffy the Vampire Slayer and indie web series Lost Angeles) and Camden Toy. Also on board on the hunt are Ellen Sandweiss (Strike.TV’s Dangerous Women, The Evil Dead) and Amy Kline (I <3 Vampires).

Michael Davies, the Streamy-nominted director of After Judgment, has a series of his own in the lineup. Hurtling Through Space at an Alarming Rate! stars Davies alongside TheStream.tv’s Live from the Future host Stuart Paap. The “golf and game-obsessed, popculture buffs” are literally hurtling through space, in their apartment, in an absurd comedy somewhere between Hitchhiker’s Guide and Up. The Captain Films team just wrapped shooting up in Vancouver and the series is set for November 2 online debut.

Though not a Babelgum original, popular gamer comedy The Guild (season 1) is somewhat oddly lumped into this new sci-fi channel as well, despite not being either horror or sci-fi. It is however the most widely-known on the slate and it’s pretty obvious why it’s in there. And finally, Cannibal Run, a zombie spoof on the outlawed 70’s cross country race is in the works.

Flash Mobs?

In what has to be a first for a web series promotion, Babelgum is organizing two flash mobs in Los Angeles this week to draw attention to the new Sci-fi and Horror channel on the site. The first one is a vampire-themed flash mob streamed live in partnership with horror blog DreadCentral.com on Halloween at 6:17 PM at Mexico in West Hollywood…during the annual WeHo Halloween Carnaval. Uh, just a hunch, but flash mobbing an already 250,000-deep mob of drunk costumed crazies is unlikely have the desired shock effect.

There’s another one later that night at the Art of Elysium fundraiser at the W Hotel in Westwood, which is more like a flash donation, since that’s what it takes to get in. Either way, the @theocculterers Twitter feed is where to go to follow the mobs’ latest.

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In a multimillion dollar deal announced today, Michael Eisner’s three year-old web studio Vuguru just landed a major investor and distribution partner in Canadian-owned Rogers Media. For Rogers, it means a multi-year exclusive on Canadian rights to Vuguru properties on all platforms including web, TV and mobile.

Known for being an earlier pioneer of professionally produced web series like Prom Queen, The All-For-Nots, Foreign Body, and Back on Topps, the studio had been relatively quiet after a busy first two years. The only active series so far this year were a second season of Back on Topps and the shot but still unreleased third installment in the Prom Queen franchise, Prom Queen: Homecoming.

As part of the deal, the web studio is being spun out into its own stand-alone entity, with Eisner serving as its Chairman. Vuguru was previously a division of Eisner’s privately-owned Tornante Company, the same investment company that purchased Topps trading cards in 2007.

“This deal not only solidifies Vuguru’s position as a leader in the new media landscape, but it also allows us to stay true to our creative and business philosophy of owning and distributing high-quality, story-driven content,” said Eisner.

Most notably, the new financing means we’ll be seeing a lot more from the Vuguru camp in the next year, as they announced a plan to produce as many as 30 original web productions a year, starting with about a dozen in 2010.

“By dramatically increasing the volume of content the company releases on an annual basis, Vuguru will become a go-to content partner for brands looking to reach & entertain online audiences, distribution partners looking to program premium content, and content creators looking to innovate,” Vuguru’s Director of Distribution & Marketing Ryan Barlow told us. He went on to add that they company will be pursuing similar international distribution deals in the same vein as Rogers in the next few years.

There’s still no official date set for the Big Fantastic created Prom Queen: Homecoming, though signs are pointing to a late 2009 release. Previous versions did well on the international markets, even scoring over $2.5 million in format rights and ad deals from the Japanese spin-off Tokyo Prom Queen. This of course doubly impressive in that the country doesn’t actually have a ‘prom’ in the US sense of the word.

“Vuguru’s strategy going forward is the same strategy that attracted Rogers in the first place—own and distribute high-quality, story-driven content.” said Andy Redman, Tornante’s Chief Operating Officer. Next up on the development docket: The Booth at the End, a psychological thriller series from RPG gaming writer Christopher Kubasik and directed by TV vet Jessica Landaw. Also planned is a young adult novel adaptation called Pretty Tough, from TV Brothers & Sisters writer-producer Liz Tigelaar.

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With its pseudo historical storyline, vicious combat, free world parkour roaming, and just massive cool factor, 2007’s Assassin’s Creed was a massive hit, selling over eight million copies and launching a new entertainment franchise. While the game was very repetitive (how many viewpoints can there be in one city) and ended with a massive cliffhanger, the anticipation for the sequel is massive. To prepare for its November 17th release, publisher Ubisoft has taken a cue from what publishers have done before: prepare some juicy web series content.

Earlier in the summer we wrote about how the feature film Terminator: Salvation used its video game engine to produce a machinima prequel series to the events of the film. Perhaps Ubisoft took notice of February’s Escape from City 17 live action Half Life 2 short, because the opposite has occurred, the web series for the launch of Assassin’s Creed 2 titled Assassin’s Creed: Lineage is all live action. Well, technically it’s 21st century live action, which means, like 300, it’s real life actors in front of a green screen.

Focusing on Giovanni Auditore da Firenze, the father of the sequel’s protagonist Ezio, the episodes are being directed by Yves Simoneau (who’s also directing the first few eps of upcoming V for ABC. Written by William Raymond, with close supervision by game writer Corey May, the series looks to really strengthen not only the background on the game’s ultra-violent hero, but also the seedy culture that surrounds the game’s Florentine Renaissance setting. Based off the trailer (above), viewers can expect plenty of violence, torture, and certainly lots of fly Renaissance costumes.

Ubisoft has been throwing some serious resources into the production of the series—period appropriate (example: super fly hidden blades) props and even digital syncing some in game environments into the live action episodes. Of course this is easier to do now that the gaming company recently acquired special effects company Hybride Technologies. It all comes together for a very modern way of storytelling in different mediums.

“The beauty of it all is to have all these people working together,” said Yannis Mallat, CEO of Ubisoft Montreal in a recent interview. “In terms of technology, scriptwriting, settings, visuals and environments, there has been a lot of sharing between the two teams.”

Mallat said in an interview with website CVG that while playing a recent build of the game he was overcome emotionally because he had been emotionally prepped by the web series. The first episode of three will be out Tuesday (October 27) on YouTube, and it is generally assumed future episodes will be released both on the web and on console distribution networks like Xbox 360 and PS3. One can imagine that if the episodes are considered hits, we can expect more live-action series for many upcoming Ubisoft games included the long awaited Splinter Cell:Conviction.

It seems like the game and the shorts have everything going for it, yet there is one thing, one massive specter looming on the horizon for this game and the online series: Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2. Coming out on the 17th, just one week after Assassin’s Creed, the game already has already sold an insane 1.6 million copies in pre-orders alone. One can only hope Assassin’s Creed: Lineage succeed in buying the game a little time before the game is massacred by the Modern Warfare behemoth. Based off history, I’d say the Assassin and his high clever techniques and toys always has a fighting chance.

Tim Goessling is a regular contributing writer for Tubefilter News and has been playing video games since Commander Keen. You can read more of his writing on www.thislalife.com.

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What a week! Monday kicked off another installment of Web Television Week out here in Los Angeles, a full week of web television and digital entertainment related events like the IAWTV Prospective Member Meeting, Digital Hollywood Fall, and of course, Going LIVE! presented by the Hollywood Web Television Meetup. We made a little announcement as well about our friends over at Tilzy.tv.

And speaking of going live, Sandeep Parikh’s comedy The Legend of Neil followed up its Season 2 finale with a live chat on UStream with the cast.

The big news of the week was the breaking story of Rob Corddry’s Streamys-nominated comedy web series Childrens’ Hospital heading to able network Adult Swim after negotiations broke down between Warner Brothers and Comedy Central.

And Roku might be pulling off a sneak-around with its next rollout bringing on a whole new crop of streaming original web content.

Top stories of the week:

• ‘You Can’t Fast Forward a Live Show’, Going LIVE! Panel at Tubefilter Meetup
• Tubefilter Acquires Tilzy.TV
• ‘Legend of Neil’ Finale Comes With Live Chat, Director’s Dish
• ‘Childrens’ Hospital’ Snatched Up By Adult Swim
• Roku: Web TV’s Backdoor to the Living Room?

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Continuing in the vein of U.S. shows like Harper’s Island and Heroes, the popular and award-winning UK soap EastEnders has announced it will tackle its own internet spin-off. The 13-part EastEnders:E20 web series tracks four new characters who move into Albert Square, the location of the parent show.

Conceived by EastEnders executive producer Diederick Santer as a way of nurturing new, young talent, both on- and off-screen, he also wants the series to explore the stories of the soaps’ anonymous bystanders. Says Santer: “There are always other people (in EastEnders) milling round the market and houses that we never go into. There are four or five parallels you could do. It will be nice to see well-known characters through strangers’ eyes.”

Similarly to Harper’s Island web companion series Harper’s Globe, EastEnders:E20 is designed to be a stand-alone series but with cameos from main cast members to please the hardcore fans. The series aims to hit a younger demographic than the parent show and is being written by a group of Londoners aged 17 to 22 who responded to a writing competition.

The series is set to begin airing in January 2010 three times a week after EastEnders episodes. The spin-off will be available on the EastEnders website and may be put on BBC’s iPlayer as well.

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NBC’s hit comedy The Office has been approaching multi-platform status in the past few years. Even from the start the show was getting terrible numbers until it started releasing over iTunes, which some insiders say is the only thing that saved the comedy from the network axe. Now over four years after the US version debuted, itself a spinoff of Ricky Gervais’ British version, the franchise is now set up all over the world, with French, German, French-Canadian and even Chilean versions all on the air.

It’s partly the internet-heavy US audience for the show mixed with NBC’s bullish digital strategy have led to a slurry of Office web series coming out over the past two years, all with at least a few of the lead actors—The Accountants, Kevin’s Loan, The Outburst and Blackmail. The latest web series, three-episode Subtle Sexuality, will premiere October 29 on NBC.com.

This time it looks to be Kelly (Mindy Kaling) and Erin (Ellie Kemper), the new receptionist, who have formed a girl rock group, dubbed “Subtle Sexulatity,” with Andy (Ed Helms) and Ryan (B.J. Novack) as backup singers.

The whole series will be directed by Kaling, who herself is no stranger to original web series having created House Poor back in early 2008 as part of the first series on Strike.TV. Capping off the spinoff series will be a music video, “Male Prima Donna,” a song aimed at Kelly’s on-again-off-again love Ryan.

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Making a documentary is a true test of a filmmaker’s stamina. After shooting hundreds to thousands of hours of footage, you have to hope you’ve caught enough interesting moments to string together a compelling story. Now try doing that on a time crunch because the subject you are covering is time sensitive. Oh and there are zombies. Lots and lots of zombies.

That is exactly what Joone Studios and Zombie Army Productions are doing with their reality-based web series Days of the Living Dead. The show follows a rag tag group of renegade actors, artists, technical directors and filmmakers working together to produce one of the largest and most heralded haunted houses in the country, Statesville Haunted Prison. If you’ve ever wanted to know what Hunter S. Thompson looks like as a zombie, wanted to watch people play a game involving kicking around severed heads, or wondered at the proclivities of lesbian zombies then this is definitely the show for you.

We had a chance to catch up with Jayme Joyce, half of the two-woman team (with director Jessica Christopher) behind Joone Studios. Joyce also shoots and edits the project. She had this to say about how this unique series came about: “I met John LaFlamboy in 2006 on his first music video for a local band 20 spot. Two months later we were doing a feature together called Squeal and later that summer a trailer for his haunted house feature epic, Haunted House the Movie. John and I share a very strong commitment to stay in Chicago and build a film community here and have collaborated quite a bit. But John also runs one of the hugest haunted houses in the country, Statesville. So for a few months out of the year he drops out of the film scene and does ‘that’. He’s tried several times to do a documentary about it and there certainly is a wealth of material but it’s always fallen apart in the editing.”

“That’s where I come in”, she went on to say. “It is a curse. But I am a pretty decent editor. My ultimate passion is cinematography, which is a very difficult field for women to break into and I shot virtually every frame of the series, but the fact of the matter is it’s hard to find a dedicated editor. And there’s nothing worse than working furiously on a project that sits on the shelf without an editor. So over the past couple years I have edited a lot of the projects I’ve shot. Including an epic documentary about the filmmaker George A. Romero called Dead On, which has been a 3 year process with 400 hours of footage … While Joone is just getting on it’s feet we try to put the Joone stamp on all of our projects. And since I hate to edit, I give that credit to Joone so that she can someday grow up and become a force to be reckoned with in Chicago.”

Joyce is currently shooting and editing nearly in real time. Every episode released so far (four at the time of writing this) was shot in September and Joyce is furiously trying to catch up on the editing so that the first season can wrap up around Halloween. “I missed a bunch of drama last weekend because I was trapped editing. Each week thousands of people come to the haunted house and there are two football field sized tents full of people waiting to get in. Opening weekend a girl broke her ankle, last weekend an actor got her nose broken and there have been a lot of audience members so scared they have to be rushed to the exits. It’s going to escalate from here as the holiday draws near.”

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The web series world so far has been relatively devoid of scandals. So when TMZ reported on a lawsuit surrounding former Fresh Price of Bel Air star (and R&B singer) Tatyana Ali’s upcoming web series Buppies, the story took a left turn.  Now, after the lawsuit has been dropped in court and both sides are calling it a misunderstanding, the series is finally set for release after signing a deal with BET.com for a November 3 launch.

The series first popped up on our radar over a year ago when we talked to Ali and her sister Anastasia, who had just shot the project as the first original from their indie production co, HazraH Entertainment. The pair teamed up with writer-director Julian Breece, whom Tatyana had met while both were at Harvard, and crafted a series that feels like Sex and the City for a young black generation, as Breece puts it.

“We think it is something that can benefit the black narrative space,” said Breece who created the series. “On television, there’s nothing like this, and there hasn’t been since the 80’s with Frank’s Place.”

After losing her father and being dumped by her fiancè, Quinci (Tatyana Ali), the socialite daughter of a Hollywood celebrity, realizes that her friends are her only real family left. This provocative and ironic series chronicles the relationship dramas of Quinci’s dysfunctional but virtually inseparable friends as they navigate the perks and pratfalls faced by LA’s young black power elite.

“We wanted to offer something sexy, hilarious and very heartfelt, making the uncensored web space perfect for a show like Buppies,” Ali told us in an earlier interview. “As an actor, Quinci Allen is the kind of dream role that doesn’t come around very often. She’s sexy, smart and very complicated.” Ali stars alongside a handful of rising actors—Ernest Waddell, Robin Thede, Preston Davis and Chante Frierson.

The deal with BET, which came together earlier this summer, is a money deal which brings on board Covergirl as the show’s lead sponsor. Star Tatyana was in fact doing promos for the brand during the BET Awards in June. Interesting to note is that the network is using on-air promos to promote the online-only series. (An extended teaser of the series is embedded above.)

“I’m really excited about the digital space—we’ve always been tech kids,” said Breece talking about his producing partner Aaliyah Williams. “Especially after seeing Quarterlife, I was fascinated by the social networking that they had surrounding it with the site and I really admired the community that they built up around it,” added Breece, mentioning that he even hired Quarterlife DP John O’Shaughnessy to lense the series.

As for the short-lived lawsuit, that according to court records was dropped on July 17 less than a month after filing, Breece says “it came down to what it seemed like was a simple misunderstand and nothing more.” Presumably there were some unresolved ownership issues surrounding the partnership between Breece’s Game Theory Films and Ali’s HazraH Entertainment. “We’re all business people though,” added Breece noting that the “bump in the road” is now behind them.

A total of 10 episodes are planned for weekly release on BET.com, each coming in around 3-5 minutes.

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Rob Corddry’s popular comedy web series Childrens’ Hospital looks to be heading to cable network Adult Swim next year, according to remarks made by Warner Bros.’ CEO Barry Meyer today at Broadcasting & Cable/Multichannel News OnScreen Media Summit in New York.

The series was nominated for a multiple Streamy Awards back in March, including Best Comedy Web Series, Best Female Actor in a web series for Megan Mullally and Corddry for Best Male Actor.

After talks reportedly broke down between Warner Brothers and Comedy Central, Adult Swim, which shares channel space with Cartoon Network, made an offer to pick up the absurd comedy for the spring season. The 12-14 minute length of Childrens’ Hospital eps should make a natural fit into Turner-owned Adult Swim’s 11-15 minute programming blocks.

Rob Corddry produced the series along with friends David Wain (star and creator of Wainy Days) and Jonathan Stern (producer of Horrible People, and Wainy Days).

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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.”

It seems like yesterday that  season 3 of A Comicbook Orange kicked off, but with a vault of banked material to pull from, new episodes keep coming. The show’s signature 5-orange ratings system keeps viewers knowing what to expect from new comic titles. In this latest episode, McKinnon plows through reviews of pop titles Crossed, Ghost Rider, XXXombies and even Whedon-penned SugarShock, also on Dark Horse.

Five more episodes are planned for the rest of this fourth season, with new ones out every week on Blip.tv and YouTube.

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If for some reason you didn’t realize that The Broadroom is a Candace Bushnell production, whether by noticing her name right there below the title on the series’ website, or by way of the gestational buzz, well then she’s right there onscreen. The famous author introduces each episode, looking ever the quintessential confident Manhattan socialite, if a far more successful one than any of the characters she’s created.

Bushnell’s Sex and The City mega-franchise, love it or hate it, leaves behind a lot of baggage – a ‘guilty pleasure’ that for many overstayed its welcome (I’ll never be able to bring myself to watch the movie, and I’d like to think I’m not alone). The Broadroom’s first episode, ‘Husband Highjinks,’ is a messy affair, maybe Bushnell inadvertently working out some residual anger towards men and their perpetual shortcomings that didn’t make it onto HBO.

It’s more kibitzing than plot, as each of the ladies converge at the conference room table with paper placards of their ‘types’ – the Juggler, the Opter, the Breadwinner – and a glass container of M&M’s. The women speak in platitudes about what men do vs. what women do. And there’s enough of formality to make it feel like an Off Broadway production, which doesn’t play well in internet form. Add to this the lipstick product placements (and a lipstick cursor for all onsite browsing; the series is quite thoroughly sponsored by Maybelline New York), and you may well give up and move on (though the shot that closes the episode with Mary McCann being pseudo-strip searched almost saves it). Episode 2 (below) is another story, certainly an improvement.

The Sweet Smell of Success offers some situational activity: Roan, the “Single Gen-Xer” (Samantha Who’s Jennifer Esposito) and Julie “The Juggler” (Talia Balsam from Mad Men) trip up big honcho Jack Coyne (Joel Brooks) by planting vanilla in his office for their meeting, for a little subliminal picker-upper. It’s silly and goofy, and seems supercilious, until they pull it off at the last moment.

The series is written and created by Bushnell, and presumably produced with the budget of a medium-sized independent film. Maybelline’s project hosting is a bit like a one-off version of Lexus’ L Studio (home of Puppy Love and Lisa Kudrow’s Web Therapy), meaning it’s there, but it’s not intrusive in the programming (if you don’t count the tacky lipstick cursor). The actors aren’t drawing big box office numbers, but are more than recognizable, each taking on Bushnell’s modern woman archetypes. Along with Esposito, Balsam, McCann, and Bushnell, you have Jennie Garth of old school (and new school) Beverly Hills 90210 as the Natasha “The Breadwinner” and youngster Lauren Devereux as “The Millenial,” Brittney, presumably so younger viewers don’t write the show off.

Overall, Bushnell manages her transition to the web quite well. These characters, while certainly contrived at times, are not Carrie et al. As much as would-be detractors will want to hate this series, it won’t be quite that easy a task: there are, alas, unavoidable glimmers of charm.

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