Getting ready to leave CES and Las Vegas I can't help but be so inspired by the IAWTV and the online video community.
Last night was a huge success! Having everyone in the same room was a huge reminder of the amount of talent working in and for our industry. We love and admire all of you, and can't wait to work with more of you in 2012!
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It's Awards Nomination Season: Golden Globe nominations! SAG nominations! Oscar nominations! IAWTV Award nominations!
Yes, the International Academy of Web Television (IAWTV) created these Awards to "provide a venue for celebrating original entertainment distributed on the open Internet by honoring the best in web television programming and recognizing the achievements of online content creators."
And that's US!
We scored FOUR nominations and couldn't be prouder:
Best Writing (Non-Fiction): Daily Grace
Best Animated Series: The World of Bruce McCall
Best Variety Series: Mark Malkoff
Best Comedy Series: Gigi: Almost American
Congrats to all of our fellow nominees! We're honored to be among you. Can't wait to see all of you in Las Vegas in January, at the
IAWTV Awards Ceremony!
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We have David Wain, Erinn Hayes, Lizzy Caplan, Ken Marino, Jorma Taccone, Zandy Hartig, Steven Weber and a BRAND NEW SEASON of the award-winning Wainy Days starting on December 5th!
Color us super excited! Even if it's a weird color! Like purple or teal! Who would want to be purple or teal?!
But if that's the color of excited, then that's what we want to be! We're THAT excited!
Wainy Days returns with all-new episodes for Season 5 on December 5th!
Today on Daily Grace:
It's raining men cameras.
Hallelujah! It's raining men cameras.
Hallelujah!
Seriously. She's giving three sweet Powershots away to three of YOU who helped make her King of The Web!
Hallelujah!
(PS: Now that song is stuck in your head, too. You're welcome.)
This is what we've looked like while waiting for this season of Easy To Assemble to start.
Note the large bottle of alcohol on the bedside table.
"You are home. You just don't know it yet."
This season of
Easy To Assemble is all about finding your way "home." And that's a nice idea, right? Home. Where the heart is. Where you hang your hat. Where the buffalo roam. Where you sometimes have to slide head-first in order to beat the throw from left field to make sure you're safe.
Home.
And we're pretty glad that Easy To Assemble's home is My Damn Channel, you know? We like to think that we know original web series better than almost anyone, and Easy To Assemble is one of the best web series around, at least according to the
LA Times. So... while it may have taken a little longer than we originally anticipated to bring Season 3 "Finding North" to you, it feels like going home for us to be able to present it to you now since
This is what we do. This is the caliber of talent we work with. This is how it's supposed to go for us. This is home.
Oh, and there's some "making out" in the
first episode so you should totally watch it just for that.
Illeana Douglas and Mary Lynn Rajskub
(photo credit: ©2011 Kathy Hutchins / Hutchins Photo)
As you
may have heard,
Easy To Assemble: Season 3, "Finding North" premieres on My Damn Channel on October 18th.
To celebrate, we had a good old-fashioned Hollywood premiere at the Egyptian Theatre. See who was there:
John Cho
(photo credit: ©2011 Kathy Hutchins / Hutchins Photo)
Andy Dick and Dave Foley
(photo credit: ©2011 Kathy Hutchins / Hutchins Photo)
Carly Craig
(photo credit: ©2011 Kathy Hutchins / Hutchins Photo)
Craig Bierko and his dog
(photo credit: ©2011 Kathy Hutchins / Hutchins Photo)
Corey Feldman
(photo credit: ©2011 Kathy Hutchins / Hutchins Photo)
And, of course, My Damn Channel CEO/Founder Rob Barnett with Easy To Assemble creator/star Illeana Douglas and director Michael Kang.
(photo credit: ©2011 Kathy Hutchins / Hutchins Photo)
We have more pictures on our
Facebook page and actor/blogger
Lynn Chen has a nice wrap-up of the event
here.
So we're pretty excited to premiere the first episode on October 18th. Until then, may the lingonberry juice be free-flowing:
(photo via Lynn Chen)
Meet
"Dicki."
She's fortysomething. She lives at home with her parents. She's "artsy." She likes Double Gulp sodas. She's looking for love.
And she's played by
Mary Lynn Rajskub, whom you might know from
24, It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia, Mr. Show with Bob and David and
The Larry Sanders Show.
But
Dicki is special. You'll get a chance to see HOW special she is this Thursday at
www.MyDamnChannel.com/Dicki.
They're back.
Illeana Douglas, Justine Bateman and their IKEA co-workers are on a Swedish tour in Season 3, "Finding North." Will Illeana ever get her award for
Coworker of The Year? Is Justine still
Forty and Bitter?
Will anyone ever tell us if lingonberries are delicious mostly because we doubt they exist in the world outside IKEA stores? Will they take a side trip to China,
where many people treat IKEA stores like amusement parks? Will they go to Germany
where IKEA restaurants are more popular than McDonalds? Will anyone just come over to our house and help us put some
BILLY bookshelves together?
We'll all just have to wait and see! (Unless you really want to help us with some furniture-building. That can happen immediately.)
