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TVTV Infinitely Google-Able

admin — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 14:13:17 +0000

Thanks to your support and the loads of coverage on the web, Transylvania Television is now the second listed prompt on Google, above a number of more venerable classics. Like the country Romania, for example. All hail the mighty search engine! Of course, the show is making less than a Romanian goat herder, so we really gotta get a move on folks. Please visit the support tab and find out about our ongoing fundraising project and the upcoming Halloween Special!

Good Spooky Mojo

admin — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 01:58:22 +0000

Writer-Director Michael Heagle reports supernatural happenings in his work area tonight! “I’m working on the next-to-final draft of the fabled TVTV Real Meanin’ of Halloween Special, and suddenly a spider floats down onto the keyboard. I take him out (he spelled 401, by the way). I look up and there’s no less than seven more on the ceiling. As I suck them up into the vacuum cleaner, I get a bloody nose. No shit.” Sleep tight, Michael!

TVTV Building Steam

admin — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 12:42:13 +0000

Thanks to the efforts of the cast, crew, and people like you, the web series Transylvania Television has been steadily gaining steam. Check out some of the things that people have been saying about the retro monster comedy series:

“Every once in a while, something comes along that really stands out from the crowd. Transylvania TV is just one of those things.”
- Sci-FiPlanet.com

“…the greatest collection of insane bastard Muppets you’ve likely never seen before” –Screenhead.com

“Watching Transylvania Television I got that same giddy, unbridled feeling from watching cartoons as a kid…only this time the jokes were dirtier” or “It may not be kid-friendly, but it is Fatally-Yours-approved!” –Fatally-Yours.com

“…here’s a webshow that has proven it knows what it’s doing, even if it doesn’t particularly want you to know what it’s doing.” – AreYouScreening.com

“I give TVTV a solid four dangling eyeballs for creativity, humor, and awesome puppetry.” and “The creativity coming out of the TVTV gang is so refreshing!” – Mister Mist, Chateaugrrr.com

“Somebody finally made a puppet show just for me!” – Harry Knowles, Aint It Cool News

The TVTV Web series continues to gather steam as they launch their third season and the producers and fleece animators of TVTV continue to expand their audience base. Using the Web and guerilla marketing tactics, TVTV has been reaching out to audiences via Facebook, iTunes, and Twitter while creating an army of “zombie minions” for their cult hit.

LIVE FROM TWIN CITIES: DVD RELEASE PARTY STREAMING ONLINE RIGHT HERE!

admin — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 18:51:49 +0000

Decent coverage of TVTV (and it’s economic plight!) in the St. Paul Pioneer Press today, perfectly timed with the DVD release party tomorrow at The Source Comics and Games, 1601 Larpenteur Avenue in Falcon Heights, MN. If you’re a new visitor to the site, you can see all of the clips of the show at our Episodes page. And though the puppets look a little like some other puppets currently owned by a major corporate entity and targeted directly at the heart minds and pocketbooks of young children, the Fleece Americans you see before you skew a little more adult. Okay, a lot. Some of the front runners for best episode of 2009 are:

Another Word for Tits
Neo Who?
And The Brooding Vampire Fashion, for Twilight fans everywhere.

We’ll be announcing the winner of the Fan Favorite Episode of Season Two at the party. Like what you see and feel like helping out the producers of the show? Start by meeting us at the Source tomorrow for our release party! Or contact us via email and let us know about yourself.

Extreme Makeover

admin — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:28:00 +0000

Gordon worked on the Extreme Makeover Home Edition episode that aired January 3rd, starring the Muppets! Did he operate a Muppet, no, but he did construct Gonzo’s cannon, and got to meet many of the crew, including performer Steve Whitmire, who he subsequently did puppet training with (see the episode of the Backstage Pass that chronicles Gordon’s adventures). Catch the Makeover Muppet Episode at their site…

Backstage Pass: Gordon Went Down to Georgia

admin — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 17:48:55 +0000

Season Three begins with a Backstage Pass entry, “The Gordon Went Down to Georgia.” In part one of three, Producer Gordon Smuder heads to Atlanta to take part in Steve Whitmire’s Puppetry Workshop at the Center for Puppetry Arts, and has assorted travel adventures along the way.

We’ll be tracking production in the Backstage Pass/Production Diaries entries this year, giving our audience a peek into how the show is created. We feel that the process of putting together something like this is just as fascinating as the results, and hopefully you share our interest in creating oddball, fleece-originated web entertainment.

Having trouble seeing the episode? Direct link here! Or subscribe on Apple iTunes today!

TVTV Nominated for Best New Web Series

admin — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 16:26:45 +0000

Transylvania Television has been nominated for Best New Web Series as part of the STREAMYS awards. Please submit Transylvania Television (or one of our cast or crew) for any of 35 different award nominations (we’d like to suggest: Best New Web Series or Best Animated Web Series – but YOU decide what we’re best for!). The most submissions get the nomination. So please – Vote now! Vote Often! (limit 1 vote per IP address per day. You can make a submission at the link below, or on twitter or by sending an email to: submissions@streamys.org. Public Submission closes on January 15th, 2010! Don’t delay! Oh, and tell your friends or we’ll give you rabies.

TVTV Crew Hosts STAR WARS HOLIDAY SPECIAL SCREENING

admin — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:15:40 +0000

For the second year in a row the Minnesota Film & TV Board has taken the misery of watching the worst thing in the history of television to the Bryant Lake Bowl in Minneapolis. Two sold-out shows later, a few more people in the world now know the terror that is the Star Wars Holiday Special. Here is the intro TVTV did for the screening with footage from the show.

New Episode: On Vampire Fiction

admin — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:56:15 +0000

The Vampire Le Shoc has a thing about vampire writers. I mean, rightfully so, come on! But maybe it’s actually TVTV Head Writer Matt Gallagher who has a bone (or a stake) to pick with Stoker, Rice, and another author who shall not be named. (coughTWILIGHTSERIES!)

Surivors of the Undead Plague

damian — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 21:42:23 +0000

One of our writers, Damian Johnson, is in an improvised zombie film on stage tonight at the Brave New Workshop.

There’s screaming and shooting, but here’s some zombie ping-pong between a playhouse and a treehouse.

Tickets are $10. But you could win free ones at their official site: www.undeadplague.wordpress.com.

Tonight and every Friday in October. 10:30pm. Get tickets online.