Web series and online video news worth clicking today:
Ugly Americans, the Comedy Central TV series based on Devin Clark’s Atom.com web series 5-On, has just been picked up by the cable network for an additional seven episodes. The animated series debuted March 17th with a total of 2.1 million viewers and has held steady, averaging 2 million total viewers since then, according to Nielsen. [Comedy Central]
Revision3’s Digg Dialogg welcomes special guest and former President Bill Clinton to the show tomorrow (4/22) to celebrate Earth Day. The hosted interview web series with Digg founder Kevin Rose has run the gambit in terms of guests—from athletes like Tony Hawk, Adrian Petersen and Grant Hill to business leaders like Sir Richard Branson and Jim Lentz. For this special episode, which was shot Monday in New York, they tapped Boback Firoozbakht, a student at the Clinton Global Initiative University and grad student at the Rhode Island School of Design to host. [Digg Dialogg]
Vlog Star is on the surface a simple guy-girl buddy story. The intrigue here is a plot ever so befitting of our YouTube-obsessed times: “an egotistical has-been Internet star (Nate) and his long-suffering, platonic best friend (Alexa) pursue web video glory.” The series from creators Kenny Byerly, Mike Ludwig and David Duman just returned from hiatus to kick off an 8-episode arc that wraps up its third season. [Vlog Star]
Hey Guys!! Can you make it all the way through this video? If you do, you may want the last 2 minutes of your life back. Sorry. This video mashup of the Beauty “Gurus” of YouTube, created by mozart595 is as he puts it, possibly the most annoying video ever made (see below). [YouTube]
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