As I mentioned in my post about Harmontown, Dan Harmon and Rob Schrab host one of my favorite things in LA - Channel 101.  It’s a digital film festival…only the “films” are actually 5 minute TV pilots.  On the last Saturday of each month, 10 are screened at the Downtown Independent.  The audience votes American Idol style, and the top five vote-getters win the right to show another episode the following month.
They are almost uniformly funny as hell and incredibly well-produced, especially considering these are shorts that no one is paying the participants to make.
This past Saturday I went to my third Channel 101 show in a row, and the image above - courtesy of the (unofficial) channel101tumblr blog - is of this months winners.
I voted for Intimate Indiscretions, Commercial Break, Sex Teenagers, Oh, Shit! and Switcher, so I’ll get to see 3 out of the 5 I voted for next month.  Gumbel is also deserving, but I’m really bummed out about Switcher not making it.  I just found out Switcher creator Aaron Moles has a tumblr account, so I’m going to reblog the first two brilliant episodes here soon.
In the meantime, you can check out all the videos at Channel 101’s official site here.

As I mentioned in my post about Harmontown, Dan Harmon and Rob Schrab host one of my favorite things in LA - Channel 101.  It’s a digital film festival…only the “films” are actually 5 minute TV pilots.  On the last Saturday of each month, 10 are screened at the Downtown Independent.  The audience votes American Idol style, and the top five vote-getters win the right to show another episode the following month.

They are almost uniformly funny as hell and incredibly well-produced, especially considering these are shorts that no one is paying the participants to make.

This past Saturday I went to my third Channel 101 show in a row, and the image above - courtesy of the (unofficial) channel101tumblr blog - is of this months winners.

I voted for Intimate Indiscretions, Commercial Break, Sex Teenagers, Oh, Shit! and Switcher, so I’ll get to see 3 out of the 5 I voted for next month.  Gumbel is also deserving, but I’m really bummed out about Switcher not making it.  I just found out Switcher creator Aaron Moles has a tumblr account, so I’m going to reblog the first two brilliant episodes here soon.

In the meantime, you can check out all the videos at Channel 101’s official site here.

  1. marksable reblogged this from channel101tumblr and added:
    my post about Harmontown, Dan Harmon and Rob Schrab host one of my favorite things in LA - Channel 101. It’s a digital...
  2. paulytamale reblogged this from davidseger and added:
    As I said to Dave during the second screening of Sext Eagerners, “Well, it’s a good episode to get cancelled on!”
  3. brettbaw reblogged this from channel101tumblr
  4. twiststreet reblogged this from channel101tumblr and added:
    Damn, I was hoping there’d be another episode of...I thought the second episode had such a...
  5. dalasverdugo said: oh no :(
  6. aaronmoles reblogged this from channel101tumblr and added:
    I’ll post Switcher later, but man, if you were to tell me what episode...Teenagers would...
  7. starline reblogged this from channel101tumblr and added:
    Can’t wait to watch these when they are posted online. I’ve missed my 101 fix.
  8. channel101tumblr reblogged this from davidseger and added:
    Reporters? Shows aren’t up yet. I’m intrigued. Also, R.I.P. Sex Teenagers. Stew angrily in your early grave, Switcher.
  9. listgenerator said: You guys had an incredible run, bummed it’s not in the screening anymore, that was an awesome episode.
  10. delbertshoopman said: Pretty disappointed by Doin’ It
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