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72nd to Canal | web sitcom | thetyee.ca
Making TV is almost impossible. It's expensive (obstacle number one). Then it can takes years to get from the idea to pitching (pitching is obstacle two through nine). If you're lucky you'll land some development money, and possibly take your idea into the production of a pilot. And then there's testing. Yes, shows are tested to determine if the characters actually connect with audiences. Despite what people tell you, TV viewers want to escape. All in all--from inception to writing to the making of--there are at least a thousand reasons your brilliant idea for a sitcom should NOT make it to broadcast. And that's being optimistic. So why wait? Go make it for web. Whether it's a hit, or not ... who cares. The point is, you made it. The more you make, the better you get. That's the strategy, anyway.
72ND TO CANAL is a web sitcom.
From the thetyee.ca: "The comedy follows the lives of a group of friends in their late 20s and early 30s who are trying to establish careers and find love in an expensive and unforgiving city -- a familiar premise to anyone who's seen That Girl, Friends or Sex and the City. Yet, 72nd to Canal is unlike anything currently on North American television because the majority of the cast and crew is Asian American, as is the writer and director. It's refreshing to see Asian American characters in ordinary situations, rather than in tired orientalist storylines or epic kung fu battles." Read the fantabulous post by Doretta Lau on thetyee.ca: Love, laughs and (finally) some real Asian characters.
Watch the web sitcom here.
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Shut up! This web sitcom is soo good--just watched the pilot. All the actors featured are insanely amazing. And come to think of it, I just realized now that most of them happened to be Asian American..
Anyways, definitely a must see...
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