Sometimes big hits start with people our age.
CBS recently picked up a T.V. show called "We Need Girlfriends."
"We Need Girlfriends" Episode 1Photo: www.weneedgirlfriends.tv
The show based on its makers, Angel Acevedo, 25, Steven Tsapelas, 26, and Brian Amyot, 26, is about three geeky friends, Henry, Tom and Rod, who live in Queens and bond over their mutual cluelessness about the opposite sex.
The three, recently out of college and all film majors started the show when for the first time since college all three were single.
The idea came to them after many hours spent watching "Entourage" when they decided to basically make an anti-Entourage show based on them.
When entering short film contests and attending small film festivals became costly for the little amount of attention gained, they decided to post the show on the web.
After posting the show to their website, MySpace.com and YouTube.com it became a hit.
Last July the three traveled to Los Angeles to pitch their show to several networks that had contacted them, CBS wanted it.
Since then the three worked on the show up until the writer's strike, which has temporarily put the show on hold.
Unsurprisingly the show is a hit among the under 30 crowd.
Not only I feel, because of its placement on YouTube and MySpace, but being based on real people, the characters are completely relatable to their audience.
The series also shows a side of guys rarely portrayed on T.V.
"We Need Girlfriends" demonstrates the crazy fun friendship between guys and that girls aren't the only ones who get shot down in the game of love.
The show is not only unique because of its content, but because of its creators as well.
Three average guys went from filming a show set in the streets of their town Astoria, NY with their actors working for free to supervising producers and writers of their on show for CBS.
The Real "We Need Girlfriends"Photo: Donna Alberico for the New York Times
These three guys show how one unique idea can explode.
I love that our generation is influencing and changing the mass media and I hope to be watching "We Need Girlfriends" on my living room couch soon.
(Information about "We Need Girlfriends" found at: click here.)
It’s crazy that myspace and youtube is getting everyday people a chance to get their ideas heard and transformed into prime time TV shows and music record deals. That is how South Park started. Those guys were making their cartoon with construction paper and it just got picked up by a network.
I clicked on your link and watched a few of their shows. My favorite was Episode 6: Game Night. It was a bit rough but they are creative and it has a lot of potential. Thanks for sharing this on our blog site. I’m excited to for the show’s release.