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The Office - Girl Band 'Subtle Sexuality' (Video)

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The ghostboy theatre

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The Official ghostboy site is now LIVE!

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The Oligarch Duplicity: EP 1

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New episodes every Tuesday on www.tmtgirls.com! Premiere September 1st!

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Webisodes give TV lovers an extra dose, Producers headaches

"If you can't beat 'em, stream 'em. That's how some TV producers view the Internet, using the Web to draw in viewers who either can't get enough of their favourite show or might otherwise forget it's even on.

Rescue Me sat out over a year-and-a-half between Seasons Four and Five (currently in progress on Showcase). To keep their fans involved, co-creator and star Denis Leary and other cast members shot stand-up rants – as their dysfunctional New York firehouse characters – which served as two or three-minute long Rescue Me webisodes. (They were posted on crackle.com.) Battlestar Galactica also entertained fans with a webisode miniseries between seasons of that show, and other sci-fi shows have been quick to make the quantum leap to web TV. Toronto-born executive producer Brad Wright says he'll be steering the new Stargate Universe in that direction.

Wright and others get the word loud and clear at events such as Comic-Con that fans demand and expect extra web content. Stars and producers from such non sci-fi shows as Fox's Bones told critics at press tour that they were mobbed by fans who can't get enough of their adventures.

Meeting that demand for web content isn't always easy. For one thing, it costs money. Joss Whedon, executive producer of Dollhouse, saw his series limp into a second season at a reduced overall budget after not-so-stellar ratings. The Buffy The Vampire Slayer creator is all for spreading his content out over several platforms, but this year he simply doesn't have the budget for it.

Hollywood unions, too, are just figuring out how to divvy up web TV production. The Canadian-born creator of Bones, Hart Hanson, says webisode plans for his show are still up in the air. "Our actors were so nervous," he says, especially around the time of the writers' strike, when future media platforming was such a contentious issue. "The trick is figuring out what is promotional and what is extra value that they should be paid for," he says.

Web TV work considered strictly promotional – studios make no money from it and therefore, neither do the talent – falls outside those restrictions. It is, however, no less a drain on an actor's time.""If you can't beat 'em, stream 'em. That's how some TV producers view the Internet,... more