We knew we hadn't seen the last of the engine room on the Us Azureas when things left in a black hole cliffhanger this past spring. Sci-fi comedy web series The Crew is coming back for a second season next week after singing an exclusive deal with online video site Babelgum. For creator Brett Register, who had been using the hiatus from the show to roll out a number of short experimental web series like Craig and the Werewolf, he said he is excited to be able to pay his talent and crew this time around. "We were indeed able to pay everyone who worked on the show this season, which was amazing as the tagline when producing season one was, 'don't worry about money, we'll all get paid in season two,'" quipped Register. "Who knew that'd turn out to be true!" While it's not exactly TV-level money going around,...
- 10/7/2009
- by Marc Hustvedt
- Tubefilter.com
Here’s how to turn any show into an instant comedy sensation: make at least half the characters really dumb, and have them talk into the camera. Presto! Your own version of The Office. This is an especially popular formula in the world of web shows, as evidenced by The Crew, a sci-fi mockumentary that imagines what Star Trek might have been like if the engine room was run by a bunch of regular joes who take their jobs about as seriously as you do (I assume you’re reading this at work). The Crew is set on the USS Cesarius, a massive spacecraft in the tradition of the Enterprise. Unlike the Enterprise, however, we never see the bridge, where all the action presumably happens. Instead, the entire series takes place behind the scenes, in the engine room. Since this is the future, the ship seems to pretty much run itself,...
- 1/14/2009
- by Ana Hurka-Robles
- Tilzy.tv
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