Recently, RTÉ Two broadcast The Commute, a one-off show by David Coffey, which was shot in cars on GoPro high- definition personal cameras. The Hardy Bucks started out as online improv, won the RTÉ pilot competition Storyland, was broadcast on RTÉ, and went on to become a feature film. ![]() The Irish hits are there: Damo and Ivor went from a YouTube sketch to its own stand-alone series. ![]() ![]() Drama costs a lot to make, comedy less so, and it is comedy that is making the jump from online to TV. Pulling in celebrities for a low-budget online series got Kudrow and fellow writer Don Roos nominated for a string of online awards, before Showtime picked it up in 2010. They can experiment that bit more, but they’re not ripping content off YouTube.Ī lot of people cite Lisa Kudrow’s Web Therapy as the starting point of the successful online-TV crossover. ![]() And sure, Netflix has come along and is making its own drama, but it is doing so using the traditional models of writer rooms and star power. Now that we have all the tools, the argument goes, anyone can make anything. The idea that the internet was going to be a breeding ground for making television has been around for years.
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