Comedy Central to launch late-night series
February 28, 2007 by Minic Rivera
Filed under Computers, Television
Comedy Central continues to blaze trails in the digital content arena with the launch of “Web Shows,” a new on-air half-hour late-night series featuring all original broadband programming from comedycentral.com and AtomFilms. “Web Shows” will premiere the first of six episodes on Comedy Central on March 5 at 2:00 am.
“With the launch of ‘Web Shows,’ we are broadening our reach even further and giving our on-air audience a new way to interact with our broadband programming. We are also thrilled to have AtomFilms aboard and tap into their wealth of content,” said Lou Wallach, senior vice president for original programming of Comedy Central.
“Web Shows” is an on-air, late-night jukebox format for Comedy Central’s original digital shorts, which the network started producing for comedycentral.com in November 2005. Each episode of “Web Shows” will feature a line-up of original programming including animation, live-action narratives, topical stand-up performances and sketch comedies. Among the series that will be aired are “Baxter & McGuire” (as shown in video), from “King of Queens” creator Michael J. Weithorn and Nick Bakay, “Golden Age,” which was an official selection of the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, the Telly-Award-winning “I Love The 30’s,” “The Watch List,” the first-ever stand-up show to feature an all Middle-Eastern line-up and many others.
