It’s been two weeks now since the debut of Tom Green’s House Tonight, and along with the new show comes a flurry of various articles and media reports to hype the show, get people excited, and get people informed. Helloooo Denver! We have been compiling the various articles that have been published over the past 3 weeks on the internet, so if you’ve got no plans today, grab a cup of something that makes you feel good, sit down and prepare for the media report overload! Send us photos of Tom Green’s House Tonight appearing in your local television guide to thechannelguide@gmail.com
Tom Green, Up Close And Personal via Canada.com
Tom Green Is In The House via Macleans.ca
Tom Green Welcomes The World via Ottawacitzen.com
Green’s day? Tom Green’s Internet show hits TV via EW.com
Tom Green’s internet chat show moves to TV via CBC.ca
Tom Green Back On The Air via Jam.Canoe.Ca
Tom Green, TOO, returns to TV via TheStar.com
Late-night TV from his home to yours via Canada.com
Tom Green To Debut Talk Show via Jam.Canoe.Ca
Tom Green to lead into Stewart, Colbert via Mediaincanada.com
Tom Green gets intimate and interactive via Canadianpress.google.com
Canadian Publication Canoe brings us the latest exposure on the Jan. 7th Cross-format re-launch!
Green can turn on the studio set with the flip of a switch and he’s been known to go live on the Internet at odd hours of the day and night to take calls from anyone watching. He’ll even have a midnight snack on camera at his desk with his pets - two Siberian huskies, Annie and Steve and his green-winged macaw, Rex Murphy.
Unlike most Late night talk shows, “Tom Green’s House Tonight” employs a small team of technical staff which includes a hand-held camera operator, a director and an audio expert. Thats right…No writers! No pre-interviews! NO SCRIPT!
“Most talk shows now are pretty pre-scripted - you know, you do a pre-interview and by the time you’re sitting there you’re kind of trying to remember what your answer is supposed to be, whereas here that’s not really the case,” Says Green.
With this new hybrid of Late night, the comfort of a Home environment Shines in the face of a TV Studio. Natural and creatively inviting is one way to describe the re-vamped “TGHT” set.
Green doesn’t mind using his home as a TV set.
“It actually just saves me time, you know. I don’t have to be stuck in traffic and I actually really like it a lot. It really does, I think, have a positive effect on the show too because people are coming up to my house and more of a rapport gets created than if it’s in the studio.”
So with the big day approaching, the equipment is upgraded, the crew is prepped, the bugs are worked out and Tom readies himself for his date with the world.
“I want to be able to have the kind of energy to do the goofy show that we’re intending to do every night, five nights a week, an hour a night, so that’s something that I’m just trying to get ready for, It’s like Rocky, you know, it’s like that. You’ve got to prepare for the big fight.”
…and what do you say to a fighter with nearly 2 years of daily training?
Go get em’ Champ!
Thank you to Canoe For their coverage. The full article can be found here.
The long awaited cross-format premier draws closer. With attention turning to this new medium, more light is shed on the details of the venture in the latest media report by the Globe and Mail.
VANCOUVER — ‘Rex Murphy is going crazy,” Tom Green said this week from his home in Los Angeles, referring not to the CBC commentator (and Globe and Mail columnist) but to his own pet green-winged macaw, squawking loudly and interrupting Green’s thoughts on comedy, television and second chances.
Green is spending a lot of time at home these days, where he has been hosting a live online talk show - a program he is now preparing for television. Tom Green’s House Tonight will premiere on The Comedy Network across Canada on Jan. 7 (it is also being syndicated in the United States). Until now, the show has existed only as a nightly live Web broadcast called Tom Green Live.
In 1997, The Comedy Network in Canada acted as a launching pad for Tom before getting picked up by MTV in 1999. So now, with the polished new set and some new technology, it’s back to Tom’s old stomping grounds.
Green seems particularly jazzed about new birch panelling. “It’s exciting to be backed by such a great wood,” he said during a recent Web preview of the new set, called The Construction Special. “Is that Canadian birch?” he asks the workers behind him.
Big thanks to the Globe and Mail.
The entire article can be found Here.
With the writers strike in full effect here in the US, all shows that have not already been written pre-October are currently off-air and are airing re-runs. Most soap operas and other select shows episodes have been written into January and aren’t (yet) affected. However, all late night programming where it’s content is usually written the day of it’s airing have been axed for the time being. That’s where internet steps up and provides you fresh content to settle your cravings. From the Associated Press:
FOR “LATE SHOW WITH DAVID LETTERMAN” FANS
Tom Green’s Web talk show is a truly a marvel. Broadcasting more-or-less nightly out of the living room of his California home, Green conducts a lo-fi late night program nearly revolutionary in its ramshackle, can-do approach. The guests on his show (http://www.tomgreen.com) can occasionally be almost as A-list as on “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” though it often encounters many more technical difficulties. You can also still get “Late Show” humor straight from its writers at http://www.lateshowwritersonstrike.com, where they are posting videos, blogs and jokes about their strike experience.
Nearly Revolutionary? Lo-Fi? Ramshackle? The author of this article, Jake Coyle (who’s email address is printed at the bottom of the linked article) clearly doesn’t know of what he speaks. Sure, Webovision was, at one time, a bit lo-fi in terms of streaming technology, but The Channel has always been the most revolutionary content providers on the internet and will forever remain on the cutting edge. Either way, a great plug for The Channel that will surely have Letterman fans tuning in, but perhaps the article author needs a bit of sense knocked into him. You can read the entire article here.
Tom Green Live has won it’s very first award! Tom mentioned in his blog last month that the show was up for a TV Guide Award for best web talk show. After a long month of voting and waiting, the winners were announced today and our very own Tom Green Live has won! Is it any surprise? It’s only the most innovative and technically sophisticated programming on the internet. Here’s to many more awards in 2008!
In the run-up to the American Film Market, American World Pictures has acquired international distribution rights to “Legacy” (aka “Pretty Little Devils”), starring Haylie Duff in a dark-humored sorority sister comedy.
Now completed, “Legacy” turns on three sorority sisters who are prime suspects of having murdered a pledge during a “Rush Till You Puke” party. They turn on their considerable female charms to distract the police investigation.
Madeline Zima (”Californication”), Kate Albrecht (”Entourage”) and Tom Green (”Road Trip”) also star. Irving Rothberg directed. “Legacy” is produced by Michael Kolko and Jason Dudek, who co-wrote the screenplay with Samantha Silver. Greg Strasberg exec produced.
Haylie Duff’s credits include “Napoleon Dynamite” and “Material Girls.”
Article from Variety
It’s a busy year for Tom in the movie world! You can expect to see him in many flicks through 2008 including Shred, Shred 2, Division III, Freezer Burn (currently shooting) and of course the long awaited Prankstar.
On a related note, for those who still haven’t seen Road Trip, it’s on TBS tonight at 10:10 PM and again tomorrow at 4:15 PM, albeit edited for daytime television.
Yesterday’s news of Tom Green Live’s (which seems to have been renamed in the media to The Tom Green Show) future simulcast on traditional TV has caused quite a stir on insider websites across the National Internet. Among the many reports comes one from Variety, the grand-daddy of all Hollywood business rags, which revealed several new details on how the roll-out of the show on the boob-tube will play out…
- In the next few weeks, Debmar-Mercury (the production company in partnership with the show), will try to get between five and eight TV stations to agree to take on the show for two months at the beginning of 2008.
- The show is looking for latenight time slots, preferably 11 p.m.
- The show is focusing on TV stations affiliated with the Fox network, the CW or MyNetworkTV.
- Participating stations will pay no cash license fees and keep all 14 minutes of per-hour commercial time. In exchange, stations agree to a specific number of promotional spots to raise viewer awareness of the series.
- After the January-February run, participating test stations get “first dibs” on the series.
- Participating stations will be allowed to rerun each episode on their websites.
The New York Times has an article out about Tom and The Channel and for those who don’t like to get their fingers smudged with ink, you can read it online.
“It seems like nobody knows what this is going to be,” Mr. MacDonald said later. “But I want to do something like this way more than I want to do anything that’s been offered to me on television. Television just seems like vaudeville to me. Nobody I know ever watches a sitcom, ever. It’s a dead medium. “So I don’t know where this is going,” he said, “but I love that Tommy’s just trying to figure it out. It’s cool to watch him try.”
Check out the full article here.
Mo Rocca made his first appearance on Tom Green Live this week and just blogged about his experience and thoughts on the show and internet broadcasting on his popular AOL blog called Mo Rocca 180°.
“I have always been a fan of Tom Green’s. I met him fleetingly backstage at The Daily Show in 1999. Not long before, he’d burst on the scene – his brand of humor outrageously funny but never cruel. Chatting with him then he struck me as startlingly modest for someone so famous for crossing so many boundaries.
[…] In this era of torturously over-prepared talk show guests (think Teri Hatcher telling some “zany” story about driving on the 405 to Jimmy Kimmel), Tom’s show bucks convention and conducts no pre-interviews. Just as we didn’t know what the girl from Australia would say, Tom didn’t know what I was going to say during our hour together. (FYI – Most late-night show bookers grill their guests harder than suspects at GITMO on what they’re going to say on camera, thereby sucking any bit of spontaneity from the actual interviews.) Tom’s interviews have pauses, false starts, even some dead ends. Thank God!
Bravo, Tom. Your quirky, funny, techno-savvy talk show also turns out to be the most human.”
You can read the entire article here.
The interview with Punchline Magainze Tom mentioned a few weeks back has just been published today, and what a great interview it is. Tom touches on subjects such as the lack of edge on television, the challenges of web-o-vision, prank calls and more! Check out the rest of their feature articles on the site for interviews with Harland Williams, Patton Oswalt, Norm MacDonald, Joe Rogan and more! You can read Tom’s entire interview here.
TV Week announced a deal between ManiaTV and ArtistDirect which would provide syndicated content of ManiaTV shows (Tom Green Live and others) to the ArtistDirect Video Channel network.
“The ArtistDirect network is a series of Web sites providing music, news and information.
Under deal, ManiaTV will program six channels for ArtistDirect with segments from original shows on ManiaTV. That includes ManiaTV shows featuring Tom Green and musician Dave Navarro. Other content will include: “Artist of the Day,” “1080 Action Sports,” Hollywood Minute,” and “Bytes” on pop culture trivia. ManiaTV will share in the ad revenue related to the content it supplies.”
Click here for the full article and here for Tom Green Live on ArtistDirect.
Denver’s Rocky Mountain News had a short interview with Tom Green Live veteran Harland Williams this week. They talked about his radio show, The Harland Highway which broadcasts on 103.5 The Fox out of Denver, Colorado every weekday. At the end of the interview they asked Harland what it was like being on Tom Green Live when Tommy Chong pulled out a pipe and lit up on live TV. Harland responded “I was waiting for the door to get kicked open and get dragged away in handcuffs.” You can read the full article here.
If you’re in the Denver area, you can tune in daily from 3PM to 7PM on 103.5. If you’re not, you can stream the show on the internet right here. If you just want to check out some highlights from the radio show, you can check out some clips from the show here.
The Channel’s very own Tom Green will be appearing on NBC’s new show Thank God You’re Here. The show has been a hit in Australia for a year and has just made it’s debut in the US in the beginning of April. Thank God You’re Here showcases the improvisational skills of a group of 4 actors every week, as they walk into a live sketch without a script or any knowledge of the scene that’s about to take place. The only clue the actors have as to the content of the sketch, and the role they will be playing is their wardrobe they are put into minutes before. Improvisation at it’s best.
Tune in and watch Tom test his improv skills on Wednesday, April 18th at 8pm EST on NBC. (US Only)
• Click here to go to the show’s official website.
Tom dropped into The Adam Carolla Show for a few minutes last Thursday to chat a bit with show hosts Adam Carolla and Danny Bonaduce. Topics ranged from the history behind the various incarnations of The Tom Green Show, Tom’s bout with cancer and how it affected his career, various other life hardships and of course, The Channel and Tom Green Live. You can read a full recap of the appearance over at The Official Adam Carolla Show Blog or listen to a clip of the the appearance below. The Adam Carolla Show airs in national syndication around the United States live from its home in Los Angeles.
• Click here to listen to the segment.
One of the hottest pieces of virtual real estate paid a visit to Tom Green Live during a recent episode featuring out-spoken comedian, Joe Rogan. Hollywood.com’s Kim Lansing takes you behind-the-scenes for a look around Tom’s living room and shares with viewers how Tom Green has taken broadcasting to an entirely new level.
“Where else on the internet can you go on live, phone in and talk to a celebrity on your computer?”, challenges Green. “The beautiful thing about something like this is that this can get everybody realizing that celebrity, the whole idea of being in front of a camera, is all bullshit”, adds Rogan. “If you have something and you put it out there and people are interested in it, a viral growth of whatever you’re putting out there will spread.”
Before a tour of the home-based set, during what Tom jokes may be the longest interview in the history of dot com journalism, Green surprises Lansing by “flipping the switch” and broadcasting the interview live.
“There’s a moment in time where I think people, funny people like Joe and myself can come along and harness their own piece of comedia.”
We agree, Tom. It’s about time.
• Click here to watch the entire interview at Hollywood.com
