I don't think you can take a long-form project and just say, "Well, because people like to use the Internet in short little bursts, I'm going to break this thing up into two- or three-minute segments and then just sort of serialize it".
NBC does have its own in-house studio, Universal Television, but FTVS has much more experience in what is known in television as "long form" projects.
"The project came about because I wanted to do a long form comic a real graphic novel," R. Sikoryak explains to The Creators Project.
Matter was launched with a Kickstarter campaign that began in February 2012, aiming to raise $50,000 to establish a long-form journalism project focusing on the science and tech of the future.
You'll see smart people investing in for-profit ventures like Vox Media, which has a notion that advertisers will prefer quality to crap, and Medium, a platform/media play that, among other initiatives, absorbed the serious and excellent Matter "long-form" project.
He never failed to tell our (entirely-female) Food Writing class how impressed he was with our work, and he wholeheartedly encouraged me to pursue a long-form master's project on eating disorders, even though I later discovered he'd read more than his share of anorexia-themed theses at the J-School.
She recently signed a mega-development deal with ABC Television and its sister studio, Touchstone TV, to produce long-form projects and series through her production company.
Success producing commercials allowed Sedelmaier Productions to take risks with long-form projects, like animating the first season of Beavis and Butt-Head.
Through Petites Planètes, Moon will release long-form projects, outtakes from shoots he's working on (like the Tropicalia legend Tom Zé, singing on the roof of a São Paulo apartment building) and studio recordings, providing free downloads of everything.
Although the premium cable network is known for its acclaimed series, winning the trophies for drama ("Game of Thrones") and comedy ("Veep") series on Sunday, it still remains the best outlet for high-minded and ambitious long-form projects.
In addition, Ridley and Tony also served as executive producers on the company's long-form projects including the Starz miniseries The Pillars of The Earth; the A&E miniseries The Andromeda Strain, based on the book by Michael Crichton; the TNT miniseries The Company; and the award-winning HBO movies RKO 281, The Gathering Storm, and Into the Storm.
