webisodes

Vin Diesel Holds The Missing Pieces Of BSG’s Final Season

Remember those Battlestar Galactica webisodes we were promised before the second half of the show’s final season launches January 16? Turns out “webisodes” was sort of a misnomer. They’re actually going to air on the Sci Fi Channel during the channel’s showing of Pitch Black on January 15. (I guess they’re “webisodes” in the sense…

Television Charlie Jane Anders Nov 6

Hulu Gives You the Cheesy Scifi Archive Experience

Weird Science, Sliders, The Outer Limits and The Pretender all together in one place for the first time. Yes, we have learned to love the NBC and News Corp internet venture Hulu, which has done what few on demand services in any medium have accomplished – deliver a breadth and depth of content that keeps…

io9 Alex Carnevale Oct 24

Webseries Are The New Direct-To-DVD

In the old days, a first-time director might dream of making a low-budget indie movie that does well on DVD, or even gets picked up for limited distribution. But now, it’s all about the web series. The latest proof: The Artifact, a new web series which Illinois nerd William Fraser is making in his spare…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Oct 23

Postie Is Back! More Heroes Webisodes Coming Your Way

Oh joy, NBC is coming back with more Heroes webisodes, and it’s about time. I’ve missed my poorly written postal yelly friend, his overly-attractive-for-a-Postman girlfriend and their cat. According to Heroes Spoilers, NBC is having a casting call for new webisodes. Which shocks me, because I can’t believe they used actual actors for the suit-wearing…

io9 Meredith Woerner Sep 17

Jonas Moore’s Creator Wants To Occupy Your Commute

We’ve already told you about The Many Worlds of Jonas Moore, the British online SF drama that’s been optioned by MGM, but even though the web version of the show doesn’t launch until November, its creator is already comparing the TV version to The Dark Knight. Well, at least he doesn’t lack confidence.Howard Webster, who…

io9 Graeme McMillan Aug 25

Chuck Joins Heroes In The Webisode Frenzy

Since someone apparently loved the Heroes webisodes, NBC is rolling out a whole slew of webisodes based on Chuck, its fledgling show about a nerd who gets the nation’s spy knowledge downloaded into his brain. Scripts for a few of the webisodes got posted as “casting sides” for actors to audition for guest roles in…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Aug 13

Heroes Postman Delivers A Letter Of Death

“Lets Talk” was truly the worst chapter of Going Postal, the three-part Heroes web series. Posty, the mailman who hurts peoples’ brains when he screams, hears a knock at the door, and you can bet it’s more terrible actors from the Company. Click through to find out if Posty and his sexy lady friend escape…

Television Meredith Woerner Jul 29

Producer: Heroes Webisodes Are Historic, Cheap

We introduced you to the new Heroes webisodes on Monday, and now an executive producer of NBC’s superhuman drama is talking about their historic significance while also answering critics who may have wanted more visual bang for their buck. Jeph Loeb, whose resume also includes stints on Lost, Smallville and a pretty impressive career as…

Television Graeme McMillan Jul 16

Heroes Webisodes Feature Hugs Of Death

The first of the Heroes webisodes has premiered online, featuring a plucky little mailman with one of the worst superpowers ever. The first chapter, “Nifty Trick,” also introduces a new villain who may have Marvel Comics calling its lawyers, and teaches us the true meaning of product placement. Web series spoilers after the jump. The…

Television Meredith Woerner Jul 14

A Deadly Mailman, In New Heroes Webisodes

Your favorite mutant soap opera Heroes won’t be back until fall, but you can get a few new hits of superpowered angst this month. The show is running a three-part miniseries of “webisodes” online, starting this Monday, called “Going Postal.” They don’t include any indestructible cheerleaders or brain-eating teddy bears, but instead introduce a new…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jul 8

Whatever Happened to Rosario Dawson’s Career?

Pity poor Rosario Dawson. Once the star of such hits as Sin City and, uh… Alexander (okay, she was also in Rent and Grindhouse), she’s apparently fallen on hard times. How else, short of blackmail and/or losing a bet to someone, can you explain her presence in NBC’s new web-only SF series Gemini Division? The…

io9 Graeme McMillan Jun 11

Scifi Webisodes: What Should You Be Watching?

Webisodes: should you bother watching these two minute blips of video that permeate the web? Sometimes they only serve as advertising fluff, but occasionally you’ll get a juicy tidbit or two, like seeing what Admiral “Husker” Adama was up to during the first Cylon war. There are lot of them out there, but are they…

io9 Kevin Kelly Nov 15

Direct-to-Web Show Is All Greenscreen

Can a hi-def sci-fi show succeed by going direct to the Web? Stage 3 Media is gambling that it can. In an interview at VIdFest in Vancouver, Stage 3 CEO Damien Kindler talks up the audacious gamble that is Sanctuary. Sanctuary is the highest budget direct-to-Web show ever, and the first show to be made…

Television Charliejane Oct 5

Vin Diesel Holds The Missing Pieces Of BSG’s Final Season

Hulu Gives You the Cheesy Scifi Archive Experience

Webseries Are The New Direct-To-DVD

Postie Is Back! More Heroes Webisodes Coming Your Way

Jonas Moore’s Creator Wants To Occupy Your Commute

Chuck Joins Heroes In The Webisode Frenzy

Heroes Postman Delivers A Letter Of Death

Producer: Heroes Webisodes Are Historic, Cheap

Heroes Webisodes Feature Hugs Of Death

A Deadly Mailman, In New Heroes Webisodes

Whatever Happened to Rosario Dawson’s Career?

Scifi Webisodes: What Should You Be Watching?

Direct-to-Web Show Is All Greenscreen

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