Monday, October 11, 2010

Craigslist TV. Second Season?




When scrolling through Tube Filter I saw Joshua Cohen's article entitled, "Craigslist TV' Debut Second Season on YouTube." First off, I was like, "Second season?! What the..?" Second, I wondered what the heck Craigslist was doing making shows?

It turns out the Brownstone Entertainment took a portion of the LA Craigslist and decided to make the posts into a documentary! I'm wondering if they can do a whole season on just the "Misconnections" section!

How did they make this happen? Well they opened the LA Craigslist to "opt-ins". Basically, after entering a post you had a small disclaimer stating that you may opt-in for a chance to be in the documentary. Brownstone reports in got about 1,000 opt-ins a day. Brownstone then scoured the opt-ins and choose 14 to make up this seasons "Craigslist TV"

It's the reality of all reality shows! It's actual real people doing very real unscripted things. The reason why it works is because as well all know the funniest things on Craiglist are largely unbelievable and hilarious. Craigslist aims to bring all of the stories to light and the public with the launch of its second season.

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