The Smoking Section - Just when I thought it couldn’t get any lower supporting UNC basketball, it just did. Most people will remember Rashad McCants as the sharp shooter from Carolina’s 2005 National Championship team alongside Raymond Felton and Sean May...Apparently, and I hate myself for even running across this, Shad has found a new avenue to express himself: acting...The Booster Club, which he is co-producing, is a new web series coming to a bandwith near you soon and his character is a cross dressing, shoplifting ring head honcho who manipulates both men and women with sex to get what he wants.
Putting aside the social and athletic implications Rashad's decision has (I'm going to assume this means he's given up on basketball, I can't imagine the locker room would be too kind after this), and the hysterically bad trailer, I have one question, what is the deal with these "web series" things?
I'm confused about the whole thing, like where does it rank on the entertainment totem poll? Above public access television but below community theater?
Is it really that hard to get a legitimate television show? There are roughly 8,500 television channels being broadcast these days, not to mention an additional 1,000 or so On-Demand features that Mark Cuban keeps tweeting about. Seems like even crap like this The Booster Club should at least be able to get a 3 or 4 episode arc on some obscure channel.
It seems like an odd medium. Like if you couldn't convince me to watch 30 minutes of your show on a hi-def 50 inch TV, why would I awkwardly crane my neck and hunch over to watch it on a 13-17 inch computer screen? Is it even profitable? How many cheesy flashing banner ads does it take to support an acting crew that consists of former NBA bench warmers, and B-list actresses/porn stars like Traci Lords?
Should The Alt-Tab be producing webisodes? Would you watch them?
