NBC announces new webisodes, digital series
NBC announced new online content for summer today, including original webisodes for "Heroes," "Chuck" and "The Office", new videos for "30 Rock", and a new original series called "Fears, Secrets & Lies".
The webisodes will start in July and update throughout the season in an attempt to interweave content online and off. "30 Rock," meanwhile, will offer several online features, including Jack Donaghy's Online Business Courses ("Jack U") and a blog by Jack, on which viewers can offer business advice and upload their own videos -- including tours of their own workplaces, a la Kenneth the Page.
As for "Fears," from the release:
Users help create an original online series by sharing their deepest, darkest secrets, their unimaginable fears and their scandalous desires. Two hosts will entice and inspire users by sharing their own stories, as well as providing discussion topics each week via vlogs. Users will submit stories in one of three areas on the site: Fears, Secrets or Desires. Starting in October 2008, selected posts will be adapted for an online NBC Anthology series that brings the posts to life with creative interpretation meant to tease, tantalize or terrify. Segments will be produced both in-house at NBC.com, and by Hollywood talent normally associated with the big or small screens, not necessarily the computer screen.
Sounds a bit like Stephen Bochco's "Cafe Confidential" for Metacafe, except switching anthropological verite for melodramatic re-enactments. No word on launch date, but we're inquiring. "Fears" launches in July.
