Bebo has announced that it will be making a minimum of six original online productions in 2009 under a newly created programme banner “Bebo Originals”.
The productions will build on the success of its previous online dramas, such as 'KateModern' and 'Sofia's Diary' – which has since been broadcast on Channel Five.
It's been just over a year since the social media network launched KateModern and demonstrated the full potential of popular short form content broadcast over a social network, and Bebo has said it was developing and commissioning content for 2009 that would broaden out from successful dramas to encompass entertainment, reality and comedy.
The shows will be scheduled so that they are given an opportunity to perform on Bebo without competition, as well as offering promotional support across the network by building them into a constant schedule throughout next year.
The programming will fall in the three main categories:
Firstly Bebo Originals, which are the equivalent of a television broadcaster's original commission that benefits from the support and promotion of the network. These will be of the same quality of previous original commissions, 'KateModern', 'Sofia's Diary', and 'The Secret World of Sam King'.
Secondly there will be third-party productions created exclusively for air on Bebo, as well as programmes broadcast on traditional platforms. Examples include 'Meet The Freshers', which will airing next month on Bebo.
Lastly there are Open Media production deals struck with conventional broadcasters such as the BBC and Channel 4 and resulting in shows such as 'Fonejacker' and 'Top Gear' being aired on Bebo.
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Will video kill the TV star?
Right now, an ever-increasing group of people are writing on each other’s walls, posting videos and checking out profile pages. Nothing new in that you might think – except that most of them don’t even exist!
Kate Modern is an online supernatural drama that’s airing on social networking site Bebo. Best described as a kind of Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets Skins, and set in London, it aims to combine the interactivity of social networking – where fans can do everything from commenting on particular episodes, to interacting with characters – with scripted “webisodes”.
Kate Modern was conceived by the team behind the 2006 Internet phenomena Lonelygirl15, the show that was also a scripted webisode drama and which caused a web-wide hunt after hints it was fake, but culminated in an audience of over 30 million.
There’s a blurring of reality, just as TV was new, Internet video is new now, and now with social networking people are taking that a step further. KM is a clever use of the platform, where blogs are part of narrative and user generated content is incorporated to become important later in the story – everything they do feeds back into the narrative so it’s totally interactive – and that’s what people expect now.
Intriguingly for drama, it is funded almost solely by product placement – everything from Microsoft maps to Orange mobile phones are on display, reflecting the more relaxed (for which read: virtually non-existent) regulations of the Internet.
Coming soon after acclaimed documentary-maker Roger Graef started making ITV.com’s first online docudrama Web Lives, along with the increasing popularity of web comedy in everything from YouTube to Channel101, this is reflecting the shift in how we view entertainment. The Internet is shifting – it’s about much more now. It’s entertainment, it’s lifestyle.
You can watch Kate Modern at: http://www.bebo.com/katemodern
Kate Modern is an online supernatural drama that’s airing on social networking site Bebo. Best described as a kind of Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets Skins, and set in London, it aims to combine the interactivity of social networking – where fans can do everything from commenting on particular episodes, to interacting with characters – with scripted “webisodes”.
Kate Modern was conceived by the team behind the 2006 Internet phenomena Lonelygirl15, the show that was also a scripted webisode drama and which caused a web-wide hunt after hints it was fake, but culminated in an audience of over 30 million.
There’s a blurring of reality, just as TV was new, Internet video is new now, and now with social networking people are taking that a step further. KM is a clever use of the platform, where blogs are part of narrative and user generated content is incorporated to become important later in the story – everything they do feeds back into the narrative so it’s totally interactive – and that’s what people expect now.
Intriguingly for drama, it is funded almost solely by product placement – everything from Microsoft maps to Orange mobile phones are on display, reflecting the more relaxed (for which read: virtually non-existent) regulations of the Internet.
Coming soon after acclaimed documentary-maker Roger Graef started making ITV.com’s first online docudrama Web Lives, along with the increasing popularity of web comedy in everything from YouTube to Channel101, this is reflecting the shift in how we view entertainment. The Internet is shifting – it’s about much more now. It’s entertainment, it’s lifestyle.
You can watch Kate Modern at: http://www.bebo.com/katemodern
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