VH1's Vspot and other web shows
November 16, 2006

VH1 is the latest to launch a broadband channel VSpot, , which bows Nov. 27 with exclusive web series Home Purchasing Club, a satire of TV shopping networks. The player (which shocker! won't play on a Mac - is a little interoperability too much to ask for people!) actually sounds kind of cool. You can share episodes with others and the player automatically updates with new episodes, but also banks the original sent episode.

But the real fun comes next year, when Jack Black and Channel101.com start a new web site and show Department of Acceptable Media on VH1 based on the premise that "some stuff is just not acceptable" according to Black in the press release. The show will let viewers vote on the top failed TV show (mostly sketches created by the show's producers, but some submitted via the web) and will air on TV and viewers then vote on the show's web site.

Here's a pretty funny explanation of the new show given in the press release from one of Channel101's founders, Dan Harmon: "There was a time when there were so few cars that we didn't even need stop signs. A handful of rich people drove where they wanted as fast as they wanted. Then came a day when so many people had cars that drivers needed to be licensed. That day has come with digital media. We are the DMV of camcorders."

Hallelujah!

Posted by Jennifer Netherby on November 16, 2006 | Comments (0)