15 minute show news

"the book club" + photos etc.

after nearly 1 full year of chaos and corruption, we finally finished shooting episode 3 today. it would have been finished completely, but due to some severe computer problems, i managed to lose all the work that had been done so far (luckily all the footage is still on the master tapes, but i'll have to completely re-edit everything). fortunately my collection of 80's mp3s is still intact!

before everything went ritter i managed to upload another short we did a few weeks ago called "the book club". if you hated park place you might like this one better (i'm looking at you, dad). check the video section.

new photos, new cast bios

we've shot about 80% of episode 3, as well as a little bit of episode 4. we're going to try to have both of these episodes done by the end of this month, so we should be pretty busy for a while.

after these next two episodes (which, by the way, put the first two episodes to shame), we're going to take a short break. "season 1" safely behind us, we'll be doing a short film starring patrick swinnea and writing the next few episodes of the show. and snorting lots of coke!

check out the new photos and the new bio entries on the cast page.

romina shamshiri profile

check out the first in our series of cast member profiles, romina shamshiri! there are many more of these to come, why not sign up for the mailing list so we can let you know when the site is updated with new features?

episode 3 is in production, with several scenes already shot. i don't want to give too much away, but let's just say that ben probably isn't the funniest meyercord! maybe not even top 5. we'll be filming more on sunday.

once i finish the script for episode 4 in the next few days, we're going to begin an absurd amount of shooting that should leave us tired and broken. but we gotta give the people what they want!

long-overdue update

sorry, i've been doing a pretty lousy job of keeping our devoted following up to date on everything related to the show. here's what's been going on:

1. we've been writing and shooting an enormous amount of material for upcoming episodes.
2. i spent a ton of money i don't have on a light kit and boom mic and stuff, so now we don't have to rely on the tv station at school.
3. right now i'm editing the second episode, which will (hopefully) be shown sunday, july 6th at patrick's house (i'll keep you posted on that).
4. ben decided he doesn't really care about the show so he ran off to europe.
5. a lot of drunk people at parties have given me some really, really awful sketch ideas.
6. evidently ashton kutcher and demi moore are dating now?!
7. there's talk of a 15 minute show event in late august.
8. "my big fat greek wallace" is supposed to be on some show on pbs in dallas, but who knows.
9. i went to new orleans with my mom.
10. oh yeah, after writing episode 2 and shooting a whole lot of it, we decided it sucked and we're not going to use it. so episode 3 is now episode 2.

i think that basically covers everything.
--joey

p.s. to the person from CBS who keeps visiting our website:
look, if you want to make an offer, we're willing to talk. let's quit beating around the bush here, asshole.

also, visit our friends at WIP studios.

the 15 minute show airs once, promptly removed from nttv schedule

so we finished the first episode of the show and submitted it to the station about a week and a half ago. they scheduled it for eight airings this week (including monday through friday at 1:40pm, a really wrong time for the show). it aired monday at 1:40 and was later deemed inappropriate for broadcast. it's been removed from the schedule for the rest of the week, and the station goes off the air after friday until the beginning of june. we might be changing a few things in the first episode, but i'm not sure exactly how to go about doing that.

anyway, we're in the process of filming episodes 2 & 3, and we're about to start writing episode 4. so the worst case scenario is that we'll have a bunch of episodes of a tv show that we can show our friends but can't play on channel 22. but hopefully we'll get a later time slot and make a few minor changes and everything will be cool.