Last week The Squatcast boys invented a new Fantasy League. Today Nik Richie & JV of TheDirty.com have joined the FantasyBromance™ craze! This is one of the biggest websites in the world and today they put Squatcast on the front page! Check them out and play along with us live every wed night 6-8pm on the Toad Hop Network.
On today’s Squatcast, Brendan & Erik invented a new type of Fantasy League! Now that Football Season is drawing to a close, we invite you to pick to 2 men from the media to create your own FantasyBromance™. Winner of the inaugural season will win up to $100 in steak and prizes on March 14, 2012. Rules and more information at: www.NationalBromanceLeague.com.
We started getting pictures from excited fans who found ads for Squatters popping up on their Roku boxes! Thanks so much to KoldcastTV for promoting the show in a new way! David Samuels, President of Koldcast, writes: “This is the first time that we have been able to promote an individual Show and we selected [Squatters]! It is scheduled to appear on several occasions throughout the end of this month.”
Please go check out the show on your Roku boxes and tell Koldcast how much you love Squatters!
Today Squatters proudly joins Koldcast TV as an official partner! KoldCast TV was the first, and is the leading online TV network for original episodic programming. Unlike virtually every online video site, KoldCast TV curates (selects) and licenses programming from independent production companies and filmmakers, and delivers a Best-of-Internet discovery experience for millions of viewers world wide. KoldCast TV is free to all viewers. KoldCast TV programming can also be watched on popular set-top boxes like Boxee and Roku, and on Internet-enabled televisions from Vizio, Best Buy’s Insignia brand and others. I have to give a lot of love and gratitude to Koldcast’s President & CEO, David S. Samuels, who hand picked Squatters to syndicate on his network! Please click their logo and support the series on it’s newest distributor site…this could be our squat at another season!
In just two short months, the spin-off live podcast with Brendan and Erik has become the Top 3rd most downloaded show on the Toad Hop Network! We are honored to be a part of such an incredible radio family and send a lot of love and thanks to all our listeners and callers! Click the top right “Podcast” button and give us a try! Big things planned for 2012!!!
Dotstudioz is an innovative publisher specializing in bringing technology and brands to online creators. The company approached Squatters for the launch of their new site as the exclusive “sample series” for their services and products. We are proud and honored that our little indie show can be the guinea pig for the future of digital publishing and promotion.
Rolling On The Floor Laughing At The Best On The Web has added Squatters to their line up of the best web series. The blog bills itself as “the best place to find the hottest, funniest original web series on the net” and we are honored to be featured on their homepage and catalogue! [WATCH & SUPPORT US ON ROFLCAFE]
Squatters wins BEST COMEDY and BEST ACTRESS at the 2011 combined Stay Tuned Television & ITVfest Awards held at the Renaissance Hotel in Hollywood. We are absolutely honored people are still enjoying and celebrating the series. For those who missed it, one of our fans sent us the footage of Brendan’s acceptance speech for Best Comedy. [WATCH NOW]
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The ToadHop Network has invited Brendan & Erik to host a weekly podcast for fans to enjoy the banter of our favorite bums while they shop and develop the next season of the series! The Squatters stars join the Top 20 iTunes podcast every Wednesday from 6PM-8PM pst LIVE on toadhopnetwork.com. Archived episodes can be found at www.squatcast.com or on iTunes by subscribing to the Toad Hop Network.
I have tried to knock out at least one episode each week and am proud to say Episodes 1 – 6 are now fully captioned for Caption Action 2! If you know anyone in the deaf community, please share the episodes with them! On average, it takes me about 3 hours per episode to do and although extremely ambitious, I am hope to still complete my goal of the first season fully captioned by the end of the month! Thank you for your unyielding patience and support!
I was contacted on youtube by the leader of Caption Action 2 asking us to add closed captioning to our episodes! I was not previously aware of this option and honored to make the show available to the deaf community. Less than 50 webseries are listed as offering closed captioning and today Squatters is proud to join the list and cause!
An incredibly simple online site, Universal Subtitles, allowed me to watch the episodes in 8-second blocks and type the dialogue as I heard it. The next step was to line up my captions with the dialogue so the timing was in sync. Then PRESTO! I could download a file which uploads to my pre-existing episodes on YouTube, Dailymotion, etc. As of today, Episodes 1-3 are available with closed captioning and my goal is to have the entire Season captioned by the end of June! If anyone is interested in helping caption episodes or possibly translate to other languages, please go to the “Contact” section and let us know! We’d love to get the episodes up even sooner!
One of my earliest theater experiences was a production of Jungalbook which featured both speaking and “shadow signing” actors. For six weeks, I learned ASL as we rehearsed and was awed by the physicality and expressiveness it brought to my performance. I am a huge fan of this movement to enable EVERYONE to access and enjoy online serial content and hope a new audience can now enjoy Squatters!!!
The Virtual Broadcasting Network just launched a new promo for their Summer Lineup featuring a lot of your favorite bums. Squatters joined the network a few months ago and has enjoyed popularity as one of site’s 14 core comedies! We hope you’ll check out the site which will syndicate one of our episodes every week all summer long along with other fantastic independent web shows! Thank you everyone for continuing to share the show and we hope syndicating will help us build an audience and sponsors for more episodes soon!
Over the past few months, I have been uploading Squatters to every possible video sharing site I can find. I am so incredibly grateful for our die hard fans that have been with us from the beginning sharing every episode, and want to share the show with every corner of the interwebs to turn new people on to Squatters! One of the incredible sites we have joined recently is Stay Tuned TV! Not only do they offer the opportunity to join a community of inspired indie filmmakers, our show automatically participates in a Quarterly Contest that acknowledges and rewards the most viewed videos.
Today we are proud to announce that Squatters is the winner of the 2nd Quarterly Contest and received a $500 award!!! Thank you to everyone who has continued to support the show and checked out our channel on Stay Tuned TV! This award in especially important because Morgan Pearse, our composer who created a unique score for every episode of Squatters was never compensated for his work, because, frankly, I ran out of money! (awkward) He patiently agreed to be compensated on the backend and I could not be more proud to hand over this check in full to him for all his incredible work and support on the show!
Thank you so much everyone! And now to celebrate, please pour a glass of your favorite beverage and enjoy your favorite episode of Squatters on Stay Tuned TV!!!!
Writer Logan Rapp writes “Compare early Squatters to later Squatters. The difference in editing is very subtle, but when it tightened that part of the show up, the jokes hit ten times harder, and now I’m calling it the best indie comedy on the Web. ” [READ FULL ARTICLE]
Squatters has partnered up with a brand new travel site TRIPPING.COM which allows real life squatters and travelers to find safe, reliable travel tips and host families!
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Squatters wins 6 of it’s 15 nominations from Canada including BEST COMEDY, COMEDY WRITING, BEST EDITING (Scott Turner), SMEXIEST ACTRESS (Cooper Harris), MOST ROMANTIC MOMENT (Erik Smith & Christiann Castellanos) and COSTUME DESIGNER OF THE YEAR (Jenny Green)!
Squatters wins BEST OF CLICKER 2010: Web Comedy Finalist!!! Thank you so much to our amazing fans for voting and supporting the show and all the amazing people at Clicker who have promoted us all year long!
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• Best Comedy • Audience Choice Award • Best Score (Morgan J. Pearse) • Best Editing (Scott Turner) • Best Looking Show (James Rhodimer) • Best Duo (Erik Scott Smith & Brendan Bradley) • Best Writing, Comedy • Best Guest Star (Sandeep Parikh) • Most Loveable Lead (Erik Scott Smith) • Best Supporting Actress, Comedy (Cooper Harris) • Smexy Actor (Brendan Bradley) • Smexy Actress (Cooper Harris) • Best Directing, Comedy Nominations announced for the 1st Annual Indie Intertube Awards!!! Audience voting open through Jan 20, 2011 when the winners will be announced on the live show!!! The lovely ladies of the popular podcast have nominated Squatters in THIRTEEN of their amazingly comprehensive and kooky categories! =) We are honored and humbled by the incredible support and acknowledgment of every element of Squatters. It took so much tireless work from so many talented, generous souls to make the show possible and I am so proud of my cast and crew and fans for making this Season worthy of 13 nominations!!! THANK YOU! Please vote so we can bring some of these home!!!!
2010 is the year that “squatting” became a worldwide phenomenon with foreclosed homes and record unemployment; This is the year Jimmy McMillan said, “The Rent Is Too Damn High” and mainstream audiences tore up their cable subscriptions and went online for their entertainment. With only a twitter account Squatters Season 1 found almost half a million views and was featured in popular outlets like Backstage, The San Francisco Bay Times, National Public Radio, Tubefilter, LA.com, KABC and screened at Comic Con, S3LA & The Independent Television Festival.
We launched June 1st as DailyMotion’s first Original Comedy and quickly became the sites Most Watched Show! That same week, we partied our asses off with many of you at our Red Carpet Premiere Party at Capitol City in Hollywood. You patiently waited through our mid-season hiatus and came back stronger than ever for our secondary release on November 9th! I am grateful beyond words for the unyielding generosity of our amazing grassroots fan base. I could not have accomplished any of this without you and my dedicated and insanely talented cast and crew. You guys are begging for a second season done right and I’m optimistic that we will find a way to keep squatting in the New Year!
ThoseVideoGuys are three bold Brits who review their choices for the best on the web each week. Web series, youtube channels and beyond. Watch LIVE on Wednesdays at 12pm PST/3pm EST/8PM GMT at thosevideoguys.tv
Clicker has nominated Squatters in the category Best Web Comedy (Serial)! Winners are determined by audience votes, PLEASE vote below OR tweet the following – @Clicker Vote @SquattersSeries for #BestWebComedy(Serial) #BestOfClicker2010
Best Web Comedy (Serial)Clicker Awards: The Best TV Shows, Movies and Music of 2010
Ask A Ninja features Squatters in this week’s “Death By Monday!”
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We have such an exciting surprise this week! Only a few short days ago, we were tweeted by Alaskan singer/songwriter MARIAN CALL about writing a song for Squatters. She had literally just returned from a tour of 45 States and 3 Territories and without unpacking her suitcase, she collaborated with our brilliant composer Morgan J Pearse to write an original love song in 3 days!!!
They emailed lyrics, tracks and thoughts back and forth and have created the first ever single from Squatters, “I Could Say Anything” which will appear in tomorrow’s Episode 13 – The Language of Love! I am so humbled and inspired by their incredible passion and talent. Morgan has done a phenomenal job of composing an original score for every episode of the show. But I never would have imagined Squatters would inspire othe artists to create…especially one in Alaska! It’s a real treat and I hope you guys enjoy the song!
Episode 13 goes live in 10 hours!!! Can’t wait -Brendan
A NEW RECORD! I am ecstatic to announce that TODAY was the biggest premiere of a Squatters episode EVER!!! Thank you so so so much to our amazing, awesome, supportive, good-looking, above-average, enthusiastic audience that helped us break 12,000 views on Episode 12 before 12 Midnight! (And that’s without a single tweet or posting from DailyMotion about it!)
When I woke up and we already had 3,000 views, I knew it was going to be a good day. But I was completely blown away when we surpassed the following we had earlier this summer! Thank you for your patience while we finished these final episodes over the Fall. And I sincerely hope you’ll keep coming back for our final two episodes coming out Monday, December 6th and 13th! We have some great surprises for you and we’re excited to finally close Season 1 and begin to explore the future of Squatters.
Today was a highlight for me as a creator and performer! Never in my life has my work been seen by 12,000 people at one time! And on a personal note, today is the 1 year Anniversary of me getting hit by a car while I was standing on the side of the street. I thought my injuries and medical treatment would “cripple” the release and production of Squatters, but you guys have kept me from slacking off and pushed me to make the best show possible (sometimes with only one functional hand).
I am so blessed and humbled by your weekly support of me and the show…and not to push my luck, but we don’t have 12,000 views on ALL the episodes so that means sooooome of you are missing out on a lot of great Squatters action!!! I hope you’ll continue to enjoy, respond and share with your friends!
All my gratitude – Brendan
This “T-gives” would be incomplete without me thanking all of our amazing fans and friends. I don’t mean to sound cheesy, but six months ago I joined the millions of people uploading comedy videos to the internet. I didn’t have money, I wasn’t famous and I had absolutely no idea how to promote the show other than to email my family members and start a twitter account. I could not have imagined over 6,000 people would show up every Monday to watch what I created. DailyMotion recently asked their Facebook followers what they thought of the show…below is the response they got:
Thank you so much to everyone who has made this show possible and successful! It is so easy to drown in obscurity with the epidemic of webseries, but I hope we’ve given you more than just “content.” I love these characters and the story we get to tell every week and I hope we can continue sharing it with you for Seasons to come.
Every single person who watches, tweets, reviews and talks about the show are as much a part of this journey as the passionate handful of talented friends who helped me scrap together this first season on credit cards and unyielding favors. I am so grateful you have all shared ten minutes with me each week; And I promise you, no matter where Squatters finds its next home, I will take you with me and continue to live up to your expectations. Thank you always! -Brendan
Eddie Carrington stumbled upon our show and had some nice things to say! [READ FULL POST]
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Holy crap! It feels almost obnoxious posting this, but it’s just SO freaking cool, I had to! Suffice to say, if anyone is wondering how well Squatters is doing, I just got recognized TWICE in public!!!
I was at dinner tonight and one of the waitstaff walking by stopped dead in her tracks. I’m not joking! She literally halted in front of my table and said, “Oh my god, I love your show!” At first I thought she had confused me with someone else and I probably looked like an idiot staring at her blankly, but she persisted, “Squatters, right?” I tooootally didn’t play it cool at all and instead blushed and freaked out thanking her obsessively for watching the show and saying hello.
As if that wasn’t amazing enough, as I was leaving another girl came up to me and said, “Excuse me, you’re from Squatters, right?” I handled it a little more smoothly, but still grinning like an idiot, I introduced myself asking her how she found the show and thanked her for watching.
So I’m sure you guys will make fun of me and I’m sorry for the obnoxious, famous-pants post, but I had to say something. I think I’m more star struck by my fans than they are of me… it just blows my mind that my little web show can get me recognized twice at dinner! Thanks so much for watching and sharing guys! I hope to meet more of you soon! -Brendan
Check out interviews with Erik Scott Smith, Brendan Bradley and TWO with Cooper Harris on Episodes 45 & 47 of Indie Intertube!
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Trick or treat! Squatters is back as DailyMotion’s #1 series, but we’re also sharing the love with Blip, YouTube, Clicker and more! Log on every monday to catch new episodes…or subscribe to the Squatters channel on your favorite video site. Thank you to all our fans and friends for your patience and support! We would be nothing without you guys! With 250,000 views before the hiatus; a screening at Comic Con and the Independent Television Festival and amazing press including Tubefilter, NewTeeVee, Backstage and The San Francisco Bay Times; we cannot wait to see what’s next for this little-indie-that-could!
PLEASE comment, rate, share, tweet, post, blog, review all over the place! The more eyeballs that land on these episodes, the greater chance for additional season!!! Thank you and keep Squatting!!!
- Brendan
Producer Cooper Harris tells Digital Chick TV why the ladies love our bums! [READ INTERVIEW]
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Backstage talks with “major players in the indie-comedy Webseries world” including Squatters’ own Brendan Bradley! [Read full article]
Brendan sits down with Killian from Clicker who is an incredible supporter and fan of the show! Clicker is like the “TV Guide” of the internet. [READ FULL ARTICLE]
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On the couch with Hollywood Unwrapped at the 2010 Independent Television Festival! [WATCH FULL INTERVIEW]
The Independent Television Festival is the premier festival in the world for independently produced television pilots and webseries…and Squatters is an Official Selection in this year’s festival!!! If you’re in Hollywood this week, come out and support your favorite bums with a prime time screening:Monday, August 2nd @ 8:30pm
UPDATE! Thanks to all the amazing fans that came out to support the screening. We had an incredible SOLD OUT screening and the line wrapped around the block, unfortunately turning dozens of people away! We are so grateful you guys came out to see the show on the big screen and we will try to save up some pennies to show it again soon so everyone can enjoy!
A very special thank you to everyone who came out to support Squatters at the ICONS screening series in San Diego this weekend! Fans and friends were treated to the third episode on the big screen and a panel with Sean Becker of ‘The Guild,’ the writer of ‘Robot, Ninja & Gay Guy’ and our own Brendan Bradley and Cooper Harris!
After a successful screening, The Squat Team attended #CelebrateTheWeb2 to support fellow web creators and enjoyed the Comic Con experience!
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Squatters has officially been out for 1 month! In that time we’ve gained over 100,000 views, a killer red carpet premiere, a Judges Choice award from S3LA, an invitation to Comic Con and the ITVfest 2010! We could not be more grateful and excited. Thank you to all our amazing fans and supporters. As a celebration, we hope you’ll go back and watch the first 5 in a row…and stay tuned for a very special 6th episode this coming Monday!
Last night, we were invited by @MentalEclectic to screen Squatters in the Shorts n Spirits Showcase at Capitol City in Los Angeles! Squatters was seen on the big screen for the second time this month to another fantastic audience. The evening was made even more special by the incredible honor given by the Judges picking Squatters as their favorite of the evening!!!! Now Squatters will “move on” to the next round of S3, rumored to screen next month at COMIC CON!!!! More details to follow!
We are so grateful to Mel Huffman, @MentalEclectic @smbdysbsmnt @WebTVWorkshop @DamianMedia @DiahnnaNicoleBaxter @FilmMethod for this wonderful honor! The web community has totally embraced Squatters since it’s premiere and we are blessed to have such wonderful support and belief in the project! Thank you!
Squatters are taking over the news this week. From Seattle to sunny Florida, Atlanta and even reports coming in from Cape Town and Parliament Square! Not to mention Neil Patrick Harris’ directing the hit musical, RENT, this summer in the Hollywood Bowl!
Seems like people are giving up on rent this week – just in time for Episode 3 airing today on DailyMotion!
The Squatters Red Carpet Launch Party exceeded all expectations! I’ve been finding photos all week in amazing galleries on: Hollywood.com | DailyCeleb | MingeMediaTV | Allison Lewis
And more!!! Not to mention the coverage from LA.com and The Web Files! A buddy of mine took some photographs specifically of the cast and crew! We were honored to have the support and presence of so many celebrities from all parts of the industry, but these are faces that made Squatters happen:
Thanks so much to everyone who watched Squatters on its opening day! 10,000 views in a few short hours! WOW!!! I seriously cannot believe there is a comma in our view count!!! A very special thank you to all the tweets, comments, blogs and the Frosty Heidi & Frank’s radio broadcast that helped spread the word!
Tubefilter News’ early review reports, “There’s a lot of gold to be mined here and a lot of potential for this show to be one of the great new comedies on the web.” Fans of FHF wrote in their support during the on air broadcast this morning! And Sandeep Parikh was celebrated in a fresh new character self proclaimed as “an a-hole d-bag.”
We could not be prouder and more excited about our premiere and hope that everyone will continue to share the show during #webserieswed Thank you. Thank you. Thank you!
I have just published the first episode of Squatters on DailyMotion.com! An overwhelming mix of emotions and anxiety as I let go of the last year of sweat, smiles and tears and release it into the world. I am so proud and grateful of everyone’s work, help, patience and support on this show!
This has been the most ambitious and fulfilling creative endeavor of my life and career. Squatters represents honest and humble independent filmmaking – from the guerrilla locations to the declined credit cards. I started this journey with a table read in Cooper’s apartment and have literally not stopped since – even teaching myself Final Cut to get us through Post and trading favors for camera equipment to shoot pickups.
And now it’s time for the poignant reactions of our audience. You are who we made this for. I got my start in theater and while there is no final bow or swell of applause; I am struck by the similarity of peeking from behind a tattered curtain watching the hush fall over the crowd. I look forward to “First!” and being told I’m stupid with five O’s. I’m giddy to earn each viewer one at a time and share a year long odyssey in a few short minutes. I hope everyone can find some joy in the silly little world that I created out of a not so funny real life experience. Thank you for your support and I hope you’ll keep coming back for more!
Always!
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Marc Hustvedt took a break from his hefe and bratwurst to announce the Squatters premiere on DailyMotion tomorrow! (Read here)
We are especially grateful for the support of Tubefilter!!! Back in October Jenni Powell broke the story with a featured interview including an exclusive sneak peak of the show on Tubefilter. Our sizzle reel enjoyed over 3,000 collective hits that day and we were contacted by DailyMotion about distribution. Thanks to the dedicated staff at Tubefilter we are the comedy follow up to “Compulsions” getting a full, featured release on the site for the entire summer!
None of this would have been possible without Tubefilter’s support and we are honored to know they are covering the show…and joining us for the premiere party Friday! Thanks Marc, Jenni, Logan, Drew & Brady for putting us on the map!
A lot has been said about the 2010 Streamy Awards. Honestly, there was a lot to say. A quick google search can give you a much more credible and articulate analysis than I can blog here, but suffice to say there are theories that the event may damage the reputation of web tv.
We were supposed to launch our show this week, but our distributor delayed to let the temperature cool off a little. We’re disappointed, but I’m not discouraged. Web Creators have experienced an uphill battle from the beginning. It’s hard work and there is still limited support from the entertainment and advertising community. But just look at what this generation of artists have created in a few short years!!!
No guts, no glory! In life and in art success is about overcoming the odds. Having independently developed and produced Squatters I can tell you that most days borderline on #EpicFail. But tonight we push through and celebrate the strength and persistence of our community.
Jenni Powell and Kim Evey have organized an evening hosted by Sandeep Parikh to respectfully and humbly celebrate the accomplishments of the 2010 Streamy Nominees and Winners. These are our friends, our colleagues, our heroes – and they deserve a night NOT about the red carpet; NOT about tuxedos and gowns; NOT about easy jokes and spectacle; But a sincere thank you for the contributions they’ve made in pioneering this odd, new medium and inspiring people like me to find their own way and tell their story.
I hope you will watch with me tonight at: http://www.acmecomedy.com/livebroadcast.shtml
The Squat Team is excited to honor The Bannen Boys, Mark & Jesse, two of the most humble and charismatic artists I’ve had the privilege to know. The brilliant Bernie Su whose darkness on the page is only bested by his perpetual smile and warmth. The beloved Felicia Day who has given chic to geek and brought instant legitimacy to our industry. Sean Becker who has fearlessly directed a cult/indie favorite into a franchise. And many more innovators and brave visionaries whose work and acceptance speeches radiate polish, class and humility.
I am proud to support this community and hopefully join them when we do release soon. We will not be discouraged by the past. The best part of the internet is that it’s all about the here and now. And right now, the web is ready to shine. #celebratetheweb
Ironically in the film world, the most revered and respected source for information and legitimacy is essentially a user-submitted database…the almighty IMDb. The industry has adopted this site as it’s number one resource for identifying and tracking creative talent and success. However, with great power…wait for it…comes great exclusivity. An article today describes the site as “skirting the issue” of regularly including Webseries in the database. However, can you blame them?
Wikipedia is a great tool, but it’s open platform makes us second guess and fact check constantly. Originally facebook was a place to share debaucherous photos – now people get fired from work and even my Mom has an account! Imagine if every hampster video on YouTube felt entitled to be included in the entertainment industry’s most respected database…
We have been submitting Squatters to the site for over six months. To date, we have been rejected just over a dozen times. But instead of being discouraged, we have used it as an opportunity to analyze what makes our show different from regular network shows and either embrace those differences or make changes. We have invested our energy not shaking our fists at the IMDb gods; but instead patiently resubmitting and we are now thrilled to announce: We have officially been added to the Internet Movie Database!
The best part of this victory is that our cast and crew who worked so hard can now enjoy the credit they deserve. Especially in this medium, you can never pay people what they are worth. But you can feel inspired to make a show that they will feel proud to include on their resume. Check it out! You can see the amazing wealth of talent that has made Squatters possible! And hopefully you’ll understand not only why I’m so excited and proud…but also that sometimes exclusivity serves a purpose.
Looking over our list, I’m humbled by the opportunity to bring all these exceptional, accomplished people together in one room and let them play. For those of you creating your own work, keep doing it! The naysayers will eventually say yes! I think that’s worth more than a hampster video – hopefully you will agree.
We were psyched to see the announcements today included some folks very near and dear to our hearts!
Our own Sandeep Parikh was nominated as an Actor for his work on The Guild AND his Directing and Writing for The Legend of Neil!
Circle of 8 which stars Austin Highsmith was nominated for Best Interactive Series!
We are talking to the popular website Daily Motion about Squatters and their 2009 Featured Series, Compulsions got a Best Drama nom!
We’re inspired and thrilled to see people we admire get some recognition for their work! We hope to collect a few noms of our own next year after our release!!! Congrats to all the nominees and all our fans be sure to vote for our peeps…the winner is determined by YOU!
Please forgive me for being MIA for the beginning of the year. At the end of last year I was literally hit by a car (me, my person). Needless to say, production was postponed while I dealt with the mess of both my physical recovery and the insurance craziness.
Squatters is still making wonderful progress. We are talking to several fantastic websites and companies about a partnership and launch in the next few months. Everyone is super excited about the show! Because I’m a perfectionist, I’m requesting a few pick ups left to shoot and then we are DONE DONE DONE!
After my accident, I was simply happy to be alive and walking – and a lot of my productivity was restricted to phone calls and email. But I have a detailed strategy for wrapping up production, streamlining through the final stages of post and releasing the show to our already amazingly huge and sexy fan base! Thank you everyone for your support and patience. Trust me, it will be well worth the wait!
Cooper and I are both from Carolina! We still had a bunch of her Julie scenes to shoot that we had been putting off (because they are later in the season and not in an office). So we decided to do it ourselves while home for the holiday. We’ve had experience shooting spec commercials together sans crew so we returned to our roots and despite moving slowly, got off a bunch of the scenes that bring Hank and Julie’s relationship to life.
Luckily, I didn’t even tempt myself with bringing the big harddrive and working on the show for the holiday. I left it all with Tim to spit and polish while we filmed these scenes. Instead, all my focus will be on these quick additions and allow us to start the new year with even less on our plate. It’s been an amazing 7 months – a lot to be excited and thankful for this holiday season. But I’m also soooo ready to just relax, drink and feel like a regular human being instead of a production zombie. Thank you for all your support and patience this year…the real fun will begin in 2010!