Pioneering videopodcaster Hayden Black (Goodnight Burbank) has snagged Star Trek’s Nichelle Nichols (Uhura) to star in a web only science fiction comedy musical, TheCabonauts: The news is out and the buzz is pretty damn loud! The wonderful, beautiful, exceptionally talented Nicky Nichols – Star Trek’s Uhura – has come on board the Cabonauts as CJ, […]

Video hosting service DailyMotion has selected a new science fiction web series, The Cabonauts, as its first-ever US video commision. “The Cabonauts” is set in the year 2183, when “humans have finally conquered the stars,” but still need a cab to get from one spot to another. Cabonauts, Inc., is that intergalactic cab company. An […]

It is April Fools’ Day, and all day long, I have been shocked and scandalized by what I’ve been reading. Post-menopausal friends are pregnant. Asheville, North Carolina’s Mountain Express is giving up its print edition in favor of an online all-Twitter version. Google promises a new user experience for its YouTube viewers involving upside-down images. […]

Movie and television mega-database IMDb is adding a new category for Web TV series, Galacticast creator Casey McKinnon says after a conversation with the head of the Amazon-owned site. “Today there are dozens of web series listed on IMDb, but they continue to be listed as TV Series. At SXSW this year I asked Col […]

Ashton Kutcher introduced his web startup, Blah Girls, at the TechCrunch50 today.  As NewTeeVee’s Liz Gannes puts it, “Not only is this one a celebrity-driven startup, but it’s about celebrities. It’s an animated web video show with interactive elements.” It’s also dead on arrival.  Everybody seems to be so wowed by the Ashton Kutcher angle […]