Making Space For Naylor, Wayne, And CosgroveBookmark and Share

Sunday, 31 March 2013 - Reported by John Bowman
Red Dwarf co-creator Doug Naylor, composer Jeff Wayne, and animator Brian Cosgrove will be discussing their work and achievements at special events later this year.

Arranged by the entertainment and arts outfit The Space, the interviews will take place at The Basement in Kensington Street, Brighton, with Wayne, who composed the musical version of The War of the Worlds, and Naylor appearing together on Thursday 13th June.

Cosgrove - who with his business partner Mark Hall found fame by bringing to TV screens animated series such as Danger Mouse, Chorlton And The Wheelies, Jamie And The Magic Torch, and Count Duckula - will be appearing there on Tuesday 6th August, along with Oscar-winning sound designer Glenn Freemantle.

Last November, Cosgrove was presented with a BAFTA Special Award at the academy's Children's Awards for his outstanding creative contribution to the industry.




FILTER: - Red Dwarf - Animation - Miscellaneous - Special Events

Inspector Spacetime web series trailerBookmark and Share

Friday, 31 August 2012 - Reported by Harry Ward
A new six part web series inspired by Community's Inspector Spacetime is to launch on 10th September. The series, titled "Untitled Web Series About A Space Traveler Who Can Also Travel Through Time" was created by Travis Richey, the actor who portrays the Inspector in Community. The project was funded by fans of Community via Kickstarter. $25,026 of the $20,000 goal was pledged. Inspector Spacetime originated as a parody of Doctor Who in "Biology 101", the first episode of season three of Community.

My name is Travis Richey. I was a fan of both Doctor Who and Community before ever getting the opportunity to audition for the role of Inspector Spacetime.

I am also an experienced indie web series producer, having made Robot, Ninja & Gay Guy, Smiley Town, 2 Hot Guys in the Shower, and an award-winning series of Mac vs. PC spoofs.

After my first scene of Inspector Spacetime was shot for Community, I instantly saw the potential for the character, and set about creating this web series with my writing partner. And it turned out pretty damn awesome. I thought it would be a great idea to take it with me if I ever got to do another episode, give it to the folks at Community and say, "You guys should make a web series of this, and by the way, here's a script!"

Turns out that Hollywood doesn't work quite that way... It had to be pitched through official channels. So my agent pitched it. Even then, I didn't hear anything.

And now, with Community's future uncertain, but fans of Inspector Spacetime as enthusiastic about the character as ever, I realized I'd just have to do it myself.

Strike that. We'd have to do it. Ourselves. The fans. Because that's what we do. It is, in fact, what made Inspector Spacetime anything at all. Fans turned a 15-second clip into a show with 50 years of history!!

So I'm going to make the [UNTITLED] series, and I need some help to do it. I've made several hundred minutes of original comedy content over the last few years, on no budget. Unfortunately, though the writing and acting are excellent, you can see the lack of budget in the production quality. I think [UNTITLED] deserves to look and sound like it belongs on TV (because, frankly, it does).

For that, I'm turning to Kickstarter to raise a minimal budget for equipment and production costs only. No one will make one dime off the finished product. We won't be selling DVD's or merchandise. There won't even be ads on the Youtube videos. We're making this show because I know fans want to see it. I know, because I'm one of them.

NBC, Sony, and the Community production team have nothing to do with this web series. It is entirely fan produced. With your help. And though we cannot call it "Inspector Spacetime", it is very clearly set in the universe that fans built for that character. The Inspector will fight the evils of the universe!

Thank you.





FILTER: - Online - USA

Coming soon: Twisted ShowcaseBookmark and Share

Thursday, 23 February 2012 - Reported by Chuck Foster
Twisted Showcase have released details on their new web-based anthology series:

A new eerie anthology web series, Twisted Showcase, is heading your way. Twisted Showcase is a mixture of self-contained horror, drama, psychological thriller and comedy; much like a modern day Twilight Zone, but delivered in 5 short film installments for the web at www.twistedshowcase.com

Episode 1, titled Peter & Paul launches the series on Thursday March 1st and stars Gareth David Lloyd (Torchwood) in the lead role of Paul, a man plagued by a voice on the other end of a phone which also happens to be his hand.



Stay tuned every Thursday after that for more Twisted Showcase episodes which include insanity, fear, the devil, vampires, possession and hoovering.

Twisted Showcase was conceived and produced by Rhys Jones, Robin Bell and Leigh Jones who all wanted to create something new for the web in tone and style, utilising the anthology approach which means that each week will have a completely new plot, new characters; all around something completely different. It’s a showcase for new ideas and a celebration of the weird, with unlimited imagination and scope, not limited by settings, character or even genre. Twisted Showcase aims to entertain with straight up scares as well as cerebral psychological horror that will hopefully deliver something that will stay with viewers for a long time afterwards.


Twisted Playhouse Trailer, via YouTube
(with thanks to Robin Bell)




FILTER: - Twisted Playhouse - Web