Update - How to Write a movie in 21 Days

So... I've decided to do it - I'm going to take on the challenge of writing a first draft of a movie in just 21 days using a book by Viki King called, you guessed it; How to Write a Movie in 21 Days.

It sounds like a fun challenge and gives me a time frame to actually get something down on paper rather than stressing about this being right, or that sounding authentic or even basic stuff like character arcs and tropes - you just write what you're feeling at the time and hope that everything comes together at the end. It's called the Inner Movie Method - basically you "watch" the film unfolding in your head and write it down as you think that you see it on the screen. All the tweaking, character description, malarky that goes into actually writing a polished screenplay comes later in a second or third draft.

So I did a little work before I started so that I didn't entirely have the fear of the great white page and came up with a couple of ideas before settling on what I was going to write. In the end I settled on an action/comedy that I've had kicking around for a while and seems the most formulated in my mind. It's called The Deck and was the result of too long spent on CNN late at night. I found out that there was a crazy/genius guy who at the height of the hunt for Bin Laden decided that he could do with the reward for his capture and set off into the hills of Pakistan with little or no knowledge of what on earth he was doing to bring the worlds most notorious terrorist to justice and collect his pay check!

I decided that I wanted to make the piece a little more comedic and write it as if myself and my friends had one day thought that it would be a good idea to go after one of the "deck" of most wanted terrorists as put out by the CIA after the latest Iraq war. Unable to relate to the hunting of terrorist all that well and for obvious reasons not being able to find all that much about how one goes about doing it online I thought that the closest experience to actually being involved in a fire fight was playing on COD. So The Deck became a bunch of avid computer games players out looking for what they considered a "soft" terrorist in the hope of picking up some easy money using the "skills" that they leant when they were behind the sticks.

Obviously it needed a little more and I crafted the lead character Stu into a recently unemployed investment broker who is now unable to pay for his fathers medical bills and after realising that he's never going to make it onto the pro-circuit with his "team" of gammers who are unable to work together to win a qualifying spot he decides to convince them to turn their attention to heading out to the middle east. Though Stu might be hiding something from the group that will shake them all and could mean an end to even their current tenuous partnership.

On day 1 you have to write pages 1-10 (or the ordinary world - establishing where the hero was/is before they set off on their adventure. It has to show the overall tone or theme of the piece and set up the questions that will be answered during the film). I started the group playing for a spot in the finals of the MLG Call of Hero's tournament in Vegas each at their respective homes. It all goes horribly wrong where none of the guys are willing to work with each other and eventually the other team win and the gang falls out for the first time.

Stu then heads off to an interview at Happy Burger where he is turned down for the job because he is over qualified and the paranoid manager thinks that because he turned up in a suit he must be from head office being sent as a spy. He then leaves for the hospital to see his dad who, with no medical care to pay his bills, is looking to be turfed out of the hospital.

It's as far as I've got and it's only a first draft but I'm happy with how things are going so far and I'm enjoying discovering what I want to do with the characters so far on the fly making me learn new things about them with each new scene that I put in.

Anyhow keep up-to-date with the blog to find out where The Deck goes!! Once it's finished I'll be more than happy to have people read it - just give me another 20 days!!

peace,

- Ted

We're drug smugglers, not drug dealers! A review of we're the Millers

We're the Millers - the family down the street that everyone was a little worried about.

Last night I had the pleasure, and what only can be described as the pleasure, of watching We're the Millers starring Jason Sudeikis as David Burke the small time pot dealer who after a run in with "... the cast of Annie" finds himself unable to pay his boss the money that he owes him for this weeks stash and has to travel to Mexico and bring a "smidge" of the green stuff back in order to call it quits.

His plan is fool proof - create a fake family that will help him slip past the boarder guards undetected and onwards to freedom with the stash in tow. In comes Rose (Jennifer Aniston) playing either herself or Rachel Green if she had made some poor life choices after the end of Friends - I can't decide, Kenny (Will Poulter) the 18 year old with the mind of a child from the flat downstairs and Casey (Emma Roberts - who after the film finished google told me it was OK to fancy, she's actually 22!!) the likeable but stroppy homeless teen who is "between couches" as she calls it. All looks like it's going well until upon arrival at the pick-up point it turns out that it's a little more than a "smidge and a half" they're bringing back, and it might not even be theirs to take.

The family unit work well together and the chemistry flows well between them with the characters bouncing off each other as if in another universe the actors are really blood related creating the best looking family ever. The humour comes from those awkward situations that all families at one time or another find themselves in: that talk with your dad about the birds and the bees, the squabble in the RV about how fast it should be going and the disapproval of a daughters boyfriend. In any other film this might be played as straight drama but because we're in on the joke (they're not a real family don't you know) it becomes a great way that Faber and Fybel (the writers) can explore the real emotions behind the fronts that the characters put on. It's clear that they get family dynamics and slowly in the film you're rooting for Dave not only to make it back with the shipment but wake up and realise that a wife and 2.5 children might not be all that bad after all.

However, it's not without its flaws. The laugh riot slows to a crawl sometimes with the story trying to cram too much in, and often a few too many coincidences occurring to service the narrative. Usually a sign that the filmmakers are running out of ideas, but in this case I think that it's just that they had too many and couldn't decide which ones to leave out; I'm sure that there's more that will come out on the DVD extras (I'm going to be sure to buy it). The only real problem that I have with the entire film is that someone insisted that Jennifer Aniston took her clothes off as often as possible. Now I'm not complaining, as a red blooded male she's hot and it's always a draw to see some bits on show, however it's either the desperation of the producers to get more teenage bums on seats ("LOOK TITS GREAT - COME SEE THIS!") or Aniston's management trying to show that she's still got it, and you should call us if you need someone to take their kit off in the latest action film you're thinking of getting off the ground. As a side-bar, and I don't know how she'll take this, Aniston would make a great stripper.

[What is more depressing in that trying to find a picture to go with this blog typing in 'We're the Millers' to Google furnishes you with over three pages of Jennifer in her skimpies before you get any other pictures of the film - Internet you're drunk, go home!]

Though for all the huge jumps and overly toned middle aged flesh the thing that wins the film back is the supporting cast that the Millers run into on their journey. The subliminal Kathryn Hahn, that is rapidly becoming my favourite actress, playing her special brand of loveable crazy in each of the features that she is cast in, Nick Offerman bringing Ron Swanson to the big screen along with his amazing moustache and Ed Helms as the Orca owning drug baron.

Ultimately a film that picks you up and shakes you drumming in the idea that the only opportunities you don't take are the ones you regret. Whether this be the offer of being taught to kiss by your fake mom and sister in-front of your fake dad while the daughter of the family you just met rounds the corner, a chance to join a drug smuggling gang brining enough weed to kill Snoop Dog across the boarder or knocking out a world renowned criminal on the count of 1.

The ending will leave even the hardest hearts warm and fuzzy and giving you a little bit of hope that the Millers might actually become something of the weirdest neighbours in existence with just a little bit of paperwork and a few "I-do's". That is until the sequel and we'll have to revisit them five years later when someone they've crossed will be out for vengeance and the smuggling stakes have gotten even greater! I for one will be watching it!

Updates Galore!!

So the past few days have been a little hectic but I've been getting things done!! Yay!

The website for 'Chasing Chuck' is, hopefully, about to be up and running - here's a little sneak peek if you're interested!! (I'm so excited about this and hope that everyone loves it, and obviously we get wad of cash to get making it!!)

A little sneaky peek of the website.

Me working hard on the site to get it finished by the end of August.

Also, I've decided that my writing output has slid into non-existence over the last few months so am making a huge concerted effort to churn out a few more projects before the end of the year! I'm looking at hammering out two first drafts of two new projects over September and October using Viki King's How to Write a Movie in 21 Days  - more to challenge myself to see if I can do it than anything else. Be sure to check out all of the blogging that will go along with it! I'm also keen to get a few short films written that could possibly go into production next year!!

In other news I've got another 1st AD job working in the North that I'm really excited about on a short film called Nah.

I'm also getting increasingly excited about this idea that I had a while ago called The Sitcom Showdown  - it's started off as educational tool that is loosely based on the "writing process" that I go through when trying to come up with ideas for TV to help me look at new combinations of characters and situations but then I thought that it might actually make a cool card game that people could play at dinner parties or other writers might use when they're lacking inspiration.

Have a look at some of the beta tests of the cards here:

Examples of some of the character cards for The Sitcom Showdown.

I'm hoping to get a mock-up set made by next week and start road testing it on some unsuspecting friends. I'm then hoping to take it into schools and colleges and then even maybe get it on Kickstarter to try and see if it's an idea that might have some legs to it. If not I've had some fun coming up with it and I'm hoping that it helps my own writing in the future!

P.S. I'm still writing Between Lambs and Lions - I'm hoping to get it finished soon!!

A chicken on 'Chickens'

Today I finally got round to watching the new offering from the brains behind the wildly successful ‘The Inbetweeners’ that was a breakout hit on Channel 4 a few years ago that was a perfect antidote to ‘Skins’ and rather than cast a group of too cool for school teenagers running around taking drugs, having plenty of sex and staying up all night it showed me my own pre-university years in full glorious HD where any fun usually had to happen before midnight when I was due home and the only sex I was having was with myself and the strongest drugs that I could get my hands on were caffeine, and I didn’t even like coffee.

Simon, Will and Neil is that you?

Recently, I read the exemplary book We Will Not Fight by Will Ellsworth-Jones on the conscientious objectors during World War I and began to sympathise with the young men who although they refused to fight were embroiled in a war of their own between their conscience and the views of their communities. I consider myself a bit of a “conchie” (read coward) and hope that it a world with professional armies and peaceful democracies I will never need take up arms as I don’t think that it would sit very well with me. Wrestling with my own worries of war I became interested in the topic and began to become very interested in the men who daily had to have white feathers pressed into their hands and the lengths that they would go either for their political, religious or moral views.  So I settled in to watch what I sure would be a witty ride through a village in 1914 that would have me equally laughing and thinking about the men who couldn’t fight in the First World War seeing them in a different light. I was disappointed.

We have a problem in the UK that we seem to glorify the horrendous conflict that occurred between 1914 and 1918 on mainland Europe that killed millions and can be argued as the first time that war was performed on an industrial scale. We call it the “Great War” and remember it with the words of Siegfried Sasoon and bibles stopping snipers bullets. We reduce it to “our boys” fighting against the evil “Hun” who ate babies and worshiped the devil. If anything we were doing France a favour by driving out the “Boche” and restoring order in mainland Europe. As Winston Churchill said: “History is written by the victors” and it’s only written that way because we won. In another reality we would hear how Germany was entitled to the same great Empire that the once great nation of Britain had and because Africa was taken and America was now on its own the only place left to invade was across the border. It was only what everyone else was doing at the time. But this isn’t a history lesson, this is a review of ‘Chickens’ (but I promise that we’ll come back to this later.)

“Conchies” didn’t just not fight out of fear, or this radical idea that killing another human being for whatever reason might not sit well on his religious or moral conscience. Often socialists out of political principals refused to shoot at their fellow man because it would be possibly killing another socialist brother. They believed (like all good “pinkos” do) that wars are fought for the benefit of the few at the expense of the many. The poor and well-meaning are sent to do battle against the ideologically different and brainwashed for another either to make those back at home richer or simply prove that one system is better than the other. If the “proletariat” who would form the majority of the rank and file of the army collectively laid down their weapons it would be impossible to have a war as no matter how many bullets there were with no one to fire them it would be a very quiet front line. However, this isn’t a lesson in socialist international politics this is a review of ‘Chickens’ (but I promise that we’ll come back to this later.)

Simon Bird and Joe Thomas are very, very bright guys having both graduated from Oxford and I’m sure they know all of the above. I understand that they need to make it funny but they’ve missed a huge chance to make the comedy relevant and socially biting as well. Instead they decide to recycle their tried and tested ‘Inbetweeners’ banter. Simon (oops I mean George) is still chasing after a girl who doesn’t want to be with him, Will (oops I mean Cecil) is the well-meaning looser who just really wants to be at the front but being a little flat footed and short he has to resort to darning socks with the WI in the village, and Neil (Whoops I mean Bert) is the mentally challenged idiot who just wants to get laid. You can see the formula, and don’t get me wrong it was good the first time but it’s now time to move on. Could it be that we are actually looking at the great-grandparents of the gormless teenagers from the popular show?

Some of it is funny, but not the laugh out loud funny, or the; this is getting so awkward I’m going to have to hide behind the sofa funny. It raises a titter and nothing more. The comedy comes in the treatment that the three heroes face at the hands of the female only population of the village burning effigies of them and general snide remarks of their lack of manhood at a time when their country needs them most. The milklady is a particular favourite hurling their day’s rations at the wall of their graffiti daubed house.

Maybe because I am passionate about the subject I wanted more from the show. Less knob gags and more of a look at the endlessness of war that this century finds itself in (especially relevant as it seems that we are being sold the same story of Iraq again over the current conflict in Syria, admittedly with a little more evidence this time). Comedy after all is most successful when it says something about the times we live in, and it may be 1914 in the village but I’m sure that the parallels can’t be seen in today’s conflicts. But this is “light entertainment” so we might as well just tell a couple of jokes about how men are desperate for sex and have a little misunderstanding about a hankie. Maybe if Will’s [damn it Cecil) has a hot mom – that’d be funny wouldn’t it?!

I repent - I've indeed been a bad blogger

I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

I know that there aren't many people out there who tune into this blog on the regular but for those of you who do I am really sorry that nothing has appeared over the last few weeks. It's not that I've been any busier than before I just thought that I'd give spouting drivel a rest for a while - but now I'm back and yah'll have to listen to be again!

I thought that I'd use the first blog back to update on everything that I'm doing at the moment if that's alright - I've got a few things cooking up about various bits and bobs but everything is a little half baked at the moment and I want to try and get stuff right before I put it up!

Anyhow in the style of a doctor doing their rounds these are the following prognosisis for the projects that I've been working on.

Chasing Chuck - Shouldn't even be at this hospital, it's well ready and being a little too active at times. We're hoping to have the website up by the end of the month for anyone and everyone to see! All we want now is the cash to turn it into a full feature doc!

Aftercare  - is dead, dead as a doornail at the moment. There's nothing going forward or backwards. The last feedback that I had from a contact at Talkback, after a rather promising start, was that no-one will ever make this; "it's too clever" was the main line of thought. I've never thought that could be considered much of an insult but apparently "being clever" doesn't do well on TV and despite protests of The Thick of It and Newsroom there was no reply, but no change of mind. Disappointing on all accounts but now it's time to grieve and move on.

Jezza might never get the roasting he deserves.

Dark Matter - The ambitious webseries that I'm working on with a producer and director is alive and doing well. I can't really say much about it as currently I'm sworn to secrecy by a contract but I'm about to explode with all this information running through my head. The second that I'm allowed to Facebook and Tweet about it watch out as there's going to be a social media tirade heading your way.

Between Lambs and Lions  - I was approached by a producer after last year's Enter the Pitch film competition to write a feature length version of the pitch that I put together called Between Lambs and Lions about a corrupt government in the future. I'm ever so close to the finish line I just need to really get my head around the last few scenes and I'll have another complete screenplay that I'm excited about. Basically, it's looking good but I don't want to jinx it yet by saying either way.

Sorry - but I'm trying to give nothing away

Enter the Pitch 2013 - Is just about to head in for surgery in the next month. I've been waiting a year for this operation and by gum I'm going to make the most of it. This year's pitch is again along the democracy lines that Between Lambs and Lions was last year. However, I'm now updating the message it's all about an Edward Snowdonesque whistleblower and her dilemma about is she doing the right thing in a short called Tides of Change. See a shot of the trailer here:

Sundown; First Light - There are a few more artists other than Sam on-board now but at the moment it's a little like herding cats - more chasing is required so it's a little akin to looking after grandma in a home I'm sure she's there getting on with stuff but I'm trying to keep the doors locked so that she doesn't scarper to the park to feed the ducks.

Sitcom Showdown - Now this is a baby of mine at the moment and I'm loving and caring for it in the maternity ward and it's still a little wrinkly and ugly so I don't really want to show you it yet but here's a sneak peak. Hope you like it.

Anyhow I might post something a little more serious tomorrow!

peace,

Oh how I'd love to be a Viking!! A review of 'Vikings' on LoveFilm

I always thought that being a Viking would be a right laugh. Plundering and pillaging all day in some far off lands with my mates dressed up in a various array of animal skins and pointy helmets swinging an oversized axe and not fearing death one bit as it meant that I got to go to what might be the greatest party in the skies with all you can eat and drink at a never-ending table with the Gods. Then by night I could sit round the fire in a great hall and tell tales of my conquesting and looting drinking myself into a stupor before heading to my chamber with a buxom wench only to wake up the next morning to do it all over again. Forget free healthcare, this is the life I’d be lobbying for.

You've got a little something on your face Lagertha

However, Vikings, the new series from Love Film tells a very different tale of events and has shattered my illusion of what it would have been to Norseman. Yes there is plenty of the two P’s going on but that’s only amongst the scenes of backstabbings and betrayals and also having watched what is actually was like to be on a raiding party I have reconsidered how great the experience might have been.

Though shattering dreams aside Vikings is rapidly becoming one of my favourite shows at the moment, and has momentarily healed the rift that LoveFilm and I were suffering. It’s a little like this is the part in the relationship were we’ve just started exploring a few new things that has really spiced things up, and LoveFilm’s sister Netflix isn’t really all that appealing anymore, though come Christmas when the family get together if her hands wander under the table like they did last year I might be tempted.

The show is inspired by the tales about Ragnar Lodbrok, one of the best-known Norse heroes and notorious as the scourge of France and Britain. It portrays Ragnar as a Viking farmer who pioneers the first daring raids into Britain with the support of fellow warriors, his brother Rollo, and his wife, the shieldmaiden Lagertha. He appears the ultimate man; attentive to his wife and family, a good provider and brave warrior. The first few episodes give us the picture of a maverick who come hell or high water is going to prove himself as an adventurer sailing “West” to new undiscovered lands with their untapped treasure that will make him and his crew rich. The only thing that stands in his way is the evil Earl Haraldson who tries to tarnish Ragnar’s efforts at every turn insisting that he is in charge and they will sail to the “East”, a much safer option for them. Once Ragnar has proved himself able to go “West” bringing the plunder back with him, including the monk Athelstan, the conflict between the two escalates into violence during episode 5 (as far as I’ve got at the moment, but can’t wait to see more!).

The album cover shoot was going well.

Recently there’s been a trend in fantasy/historical dramas with Game Of Thrones the most recent success that is an obvious comparison to Vikings. At times it is painful to see the show try and pander to the viewers of the HBO series with all the uncovered bits and such that come with it. Being originally aired on the History channel in the USA they can’t go as far as their cable network cousin and it ends up being rather sad that they feel the need to try and draw attention to itself with being another show with actual CHEBS in, I mean look at them they’re out on TV! Unless you’re a thirteen year old boy that has rather malevolent parents who cloak your internet in a filter it’s now just become a little sad that shows think that the only way to compete is to show us some wobbly bits to keep us interested. But if you are a thirteen year old boy with the Stasi monitoring your web searches go nuts with Vikings, there’s nothing you won’t love about it.

What Vikings does do well it does very well. The human relationships and interactions between characters are brilliant each exchange adding something new a titillating to the story. The scenes between Ragnar and Athelstan are a particular favourite with both of the men blindly defending their own beliefs but at the same time doubting them with each conversation learning more and more about the others world. I half expect at the end of the series Ragnar a celibate Christian monk and Athelstan taking the Viking way of life too far simply swinging an axe into the faces of people he meets in the street. Other highlights are Floki, the crazy shipbuilder who is half Heath Ledgers the joker and the other half Jim Carrey in The Mask and the beautiful way that the violence and brutality of Viking life is captured, each chop and stab framed with such purpose, choreographed so thoughtfully that the blunt instruments of battle become a ballet when it could have been a cumbersome exercise.

Aside from the insistence of pointing out that: yes she’s naked; here look at her there’s boobs! Vikings only downfalls are small enough to forgive. The sets at times look a little like those that were left over after a cheap looking history docudrama was shut down because in a PC world Vikings are surely off the cards now, but the breath-taking scenery of Ireland more than makes up for it. Also, often you are pulled out of the action by a historical inaccuracy such as:  Ragnar insisting on helping to wash the clothes, his wife Lagertha joining them in battle and the raiders forming a “turtle” with their shields when fired upon (A Roman trait not a Viking one). Each done for a plot point rather than to ring true to history with entertainment and advancing the script obviously the first priority and things that the average viewer might easily skip over but torture for a history buff. The only other time that I fell out with the series was when the raiding party chopped their way through a room full of defenseless monks at a monastery, historically accurate now but not getting me to identify much with a group of characters who are happy to get on-board with that.  

In the end Vikings is a great watch and I can’t wait to get to the end of the 9 episode first season, most likely this week in time for season 2 early next year. I just hope that the writers do less of the diet Game of Thrones stuff and focus on more of what makes the show so great; showing the tender side of a time in history where we focus far too much on the hacking and slashing. Maybe being a Viking wouldn't be all that bad after all.

The rise of the internet video show - from VHS to MP4

There’s a current trend at the moment on TV, especially on the main channels, to try and produce the cheapest shows that will appeal to the widest possible audiences. There’s the structured reality TV show where you fill a house/town/family full of the in-between stages of human evolution and ply them with booze hoping that they get up to naughty stuff and fall out while some sort of basic arc appears that in no way was driven by the producer stirring the pot and ensuring that certain “characters” arrive at specific places at the right time when the cameras are on. And there’s the internet video show.

No one is safe from some Daniel Tosh ribbing.

 The internet video show is best described as a modern update of You’ve Been Framed. Rather than kill off the “post your funny videos to us and we’ll put them on TV” genre the internet has actually supplied the new breed of the show with a gold mine of material. One of my favourites at the moment has to be Tosh.0 where comedian and host Daniel Tosh takes you through his picks of the videos from Youtube with a sarcastic commentary and a camp persona that gives what is essentially something as mundane as a sick prank gone wrong, a panda sneezing or "the Star Wars kid" so much more depth that you previously thought.

But why does this genre work and why do they keep getting commissioned, and why do people keep watching? The internet is there filled with videos that you can access, for much cheaper than you can a satellite TV channel, any time of the day with little effort. Here are a few ideas why:

Tosh.0 unlocking the depths of the internet to find you the best puking grandmas possible.

1 – The internet is fricking huge! With over 100’s of hours of footage uploaded every minute on Youtube there is no way that you can see everything and even some viral videos might get missed unless you’re plugged into the net twenty-four hours a day. Show’s like this can draw your attention to the stuff that you might have missed and act almost like a filter finding you the stuff that is worth seeing and ensuring that you can avoid the stuff that isn’t.

2 – They’re so cheap to produce. All you need is an audience to come and watch, a warehouse, green screen and comedian with a few writers. There’s a few sketches that happen on the likes of Tosh.0 and Russell Howard’s Good News but they’re mostly in the car-park out the back and don’t require all that much to make.

3 – We like seeing people falling over. It’s simple comedy, man/woman/dog/cat/grandma falls down, it gets a laugh. Now repeat, but this time grandma is carrying a chainsaw/flaming bag of excrement/granddad. Also, there’s a lot of puking on Tosh.0 which is funny, very funny!

4 – Once again the internet is fricking huge! There seems to be an unlimited supply of videos out there and with 100’s of hours of footage uploaded every minute to Youtube they’re never going to run out of material to comment on.

5 – Transmedia. A bit of a buzz word at the moment, and often mistakenly used (probably in this case too). We like to share stuff with our friends on social networks and be the first to “discover” something. Once we’ve seen something on Tosh.0 that our friends might not have we can post it to them on Twitter/Facebook etc… and appear in the know, or even show it to them to have the experience of watching the video all over again with friends.

6 – We’re in on the act. You could end up on Tosh.0 a variety of ways which is both exciting and possibly a little scary, which we enjoy the feeling of. There are a variety of ways that you can end up being on the show; as a guest on the “web-redemption” segment (he brought the Star Wars kid on to hit back at the haters and trolls the one time), via skype as a guest (Tosh had thanksgiving dinner with a bunch of fans that won the opportunity) or even on the videos themselves that are part of the act. In the book What Would Google Do? by Jeff Jarvis states that the most successful media productions in the age of the internet build a community around their main product. Tosh.0 has its own blog that gets hundreds of thousands of visitors and Daniel interacts with his fans via Twitter personally when the show is on (and sometimes on the show goading them the week before to send something to him that he uses as part of the act) and is constantly referencing his stand up acts and other ventures (such has the hilarious Brickleberry) we, as viewer, feel as if we are as close to being part of the show as we possibly can, and thus take ownership over it.

7 – Finally the internet is fricking huge! At the moment the internet is big business. Everyone knows about it and there aren’t many people who can’t access it. People are interested in what’s out there and like being shown the stuff that they might have missed and seeing the people who are involved in creating the content that they are consuming on Youtube, they're slowly becoming the new "stars" of our age.

The internet video show is here to stay so long as the internet is the main medium that the world uses to interact with one another. But even when it is eventually superseded by something else the internet video show will live on just in another incarnation, possibly with Tosh beamed directly into your mind - now that's a scary prospect.