Starz Digital Media is inviting everyone into the pool with its new YouTube entertainment and comedy channel, Union Pool. The exclusive channel will offer a unique variety of animated and live-action series, with new episodes every Tuesday and Thursday.
The initial line up on the channel includes the acting school spoof Hollywood Acting Studio, pop culture animated mash-up Tvoovies, and the award-winning puppet animation adventure Captain Cornelius Cartoon’s Cartoon Lagoon. Also on the channel will be Starz’s cable VOD series 30-Second Bunny Theater.
“We have been so successful with two of our award-winning web animation series ‘How It Should Have Ended’ and ‘30-Second Bunnies Theater,’ that we saw an opportunity to provide viewers with more original content,” said Mara Winokur, SVP, Digital for Starz Digital Media. “We’re extremely proud of our newest lineup of web series and are looking forward to providing more quality comedy originals to viewers everywhere.”
Tvoovies is inspired by the popular social news site Reddit. Created by award winning LA-based producers Cosmic Toast Studios in partnership with Starz Digital Media, Tvoovies is a pop culture animated mash-up where hit TV series’ collide with blockbuster films creating parodies of the biggest titles in entertainment, including Jurassic Parks and Rec, Mad X-Men, Indiana Jones and the Abbey of Downton, and The Grey’s Anatomy.
Hollywood Acting Studio, created by Kevin Best, co-founder of the Natural Disastronauts (Cracked.com’s Cracked Advice Board), follows the hilarious unorthodox teaching methods of Professor Lafrange, a failed Hollywood hopeful instructing a new crop of aspiring actors at a local community college.
Captain Cornelius Cartoon’s Cartoon Lagoon is the brain child of Nickelodeon and DC Comics alumni Manny Galán and Pat Giles of Pat-Man Studios. The show is an award-winning animated adventure that follows seafaring puppets on their underwater quest aboard the Manta Ray. This cartoon-retrieving vessel commanded by Captain Cornelius dives deep into Cartoon Lagoon in search of the best and the worst cartoons ever made. Meanwhile, a motley crew spoofs PSAs and retro animated favorites: including the original Casper The Friendly Ghost, The Underwater Adventures of Captain Nemo, and Popeye the Sailor Man
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