23 Jul, 2008
By: Rich Watson
Rosario Dawson appears in this new NBC webseries called Gemini Division, which has a trailer you can view here. I tend to agree with IO9 in that the CGI Sin City-esque backgrounds look unappealing.
Its so important for the interactive TV genre that Gemini Division puts on a good showing. This is the kind of innovative product that exploits the interactivity of the internet and changes the lean back viewing experience of traditional TV into something far more engaging. Its success would bring much needed attention to the indie interactive web scene.
Signing Rosario Dawson is a great choice, a neo sci-fi plot is a great choice, the one gripe I have though is geo-blocking the show limiting it only to a US audience, I think its a cop out and a failure to fully embrace the internet. NBC, why get only half pregnant?! In mitigation, I suppose with a huge marketing budget, Gemini Division does not have to rely on viral distribution like indies do. And it probably has found revenues in international distribution.
The $1.75M budget is HUGE for the web TV world but my hope is that a nice chunk of that is allocated to marketing (and you can count Rosario’s paycheck in that) to bring attention to the nascent interactive web series genre … indies like ours will gladly ride this coat tail.
2 | kaoticchick
September 7th, 2008 at 7:58 am
hey guys..check out this hilarious webseries I found the other day…its about this bum who
gets stuck in the nintendo game version of legend of Zelda..by far the funniest thing ive seen in
weeks..http://www.effinfunny.com/legend-of-neil..check it out!!!
