AFI BLOG: Media and Technology

LA Times online.

Sony Pictures Television officially launched C-Spot today, a new web TV channel that will be home to a 13-week season of online comedy. There will be six new scripted shows, one “airing” each day of the week. Going along with the conventional wisdom about online audience-building, C-Spot will play on a variety of platforms, including Sony’s Crackle, YouTube and Hulu, with revenue-sharing deals so Sony can get a piece of the advertising pie no matter where the shows get watched.

The shows represent, if not a giant leap forward for online television, at least a step in the right direction. They avoid the id-riddled blue humor that many Web comedy portals can’t seem to get away from. In fact, there are so few curse words and blatant sexual references that even this blog can get away with embedding episodes. …read on….