Five years ago, SFN was arguably the first major brand to back a scripted episodic show made for the internet, with The Temp Life a farcical look at the horrors of off-brand temp agencies. Five seasons later, the series is still running with the SFN’s Spherion Staffing apparently happy with its growing, and targeted, audience. (Season 5 of The Temp Life just passed 1 million view mark this past weekend.)
Now the company is stepping up to back its second original web series, this time targeting professional women with Bestsellers, billed as a “multi-generational dramedy series about five modern professional women balancing life and career.” The setup is relatively simple, with the five lead female characters gathering for their weekly book club, where naturally the conversations spill over beyond the books at hand.
SFN Group’s CEO Roy Krause was a fan of the concept, which came from web series vet Susan Miller (Executive Producer/Co-creator of Anyone But Me), who wrote the series. “The characters portrayed in this series: the entrepreneur, the IT consultant, the freelance blogger, the accounting executive, the HR expert – they represent the cross-section of professional women SFN Group employs every day.”
The project originated out of SFN’s New York-based agency CJP Communications, with CJP’s Wilson Cleveland and Melissa Schneider Executive Producing. Miller’s ABM creative partner Tina Cesa Ward came on board to direct the series, which stars Alice Barden, Mandy Bruno, Cathy Curtin, Natalie Kuhn and Dena Tyler. Bestsellers will premiere Monday, January 31 on YouTube and iTunes, with some additional distribution partners said to be in the works.
Early look at some stills from Bestsellers:
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