Six SPT Short-Form Series Launch on Online Comedy Network

CULVER CITY, March 31: Six
short-form comedy series distributed by Sony Pictures Television (SPT) are
launching on C-Spot, a new ad-supported multiplatform comedy channel.

The new series on C-Spot
are Gorgeous Tiny Chicken Machine Show, The Roadents, Gaytown, The Writers Room, Hot, Hot Los Angeles and Best of Penn Says, featuring Penn Jillette. The comedy network has
deals to air its content on the Sony Pictures Entertainment-owned Crackle.com,
YouTube, AOL Video, Hulu, Verizon Wireless’s V CAST Video service and direct to
Sony BRAVIA TVs via BRAVIA Internet Video Link. C-Spot features programming
with continuing story lines specifically produced for the web and mobile and is
programmed 52 weeks a year.

In its first 13-week
season, C-Spot will feature all six series with new episodes premiering every
week on their respective days.

On Mondays, Hot, Hot
Los Angeles premieres new episodes
featuring a sardonic take of soapy teen dramas and shows that glamorize the
excesses of the rich and not so famous. The scripted series follows two of the
most popular guys in town, Pip and Victor, as the “frenemies” battle for the
hearts of the same girls and increased popularity, while overindulging in the
best L.A. has to offer. Hot, Hot Los Angeles was created and is executive produced by Andrew
Schwartz and Bennett Baker Barbakow, and is produced by Test Pattern Media.

The Writers Room will debut new episodes on Tuesdays. The
single-camera comedy takes a satirical look at the inner workings of a
late-night talk show hosted by actor and comedian Kevin Pollak. The Writers
Room explores the ludicrous
situations and conversations that arise when a roomful of neurotic writers work
to please their overbearing and tyrannical boss. Created and executive produced
by Mark Feldstein and Brad Roth, The Writers Room is produced by Stun Creative.

Wednesdays feature new
episodes of the web series Gaytown,
starring Owen Benjamin as a straight man living in Gaytown, a place where men
wear fannypacks and adorn their Yorkies with fancy dog sweaters, and women
drive trucks and pour concrete. This weekly comedy series follows Owen's quest
to work up the courage to come out of the closet to Pierce, his fake boyfriend;
Lina, the woman he is secretly in love with; and even his dad, the rhinestone
king of Gaytown. Owen Benjamin created, wrote and executive produces the
series.

The Roadents, a 2-D and 3-D animated improvisational comedy
series centering on two guinea pigs that hit the road in a 1983 Winnebago, airs
on Thursdays. Justin Hilden created the web series that is executive produced
by Kelli Bixler and produced by Kristofer Updike. The Roadents
is from Bix Pix Entertainment, the team whose work has been featured in Saturday
Night Live’s “TV Funhouse” segments.

Fridays feature new
episodes of Gorgeous Tiny Chicken Machine Show. Ten new episodes of the series will air,
following the success of its earlier episodes airing in 2007, the first two of
which were viewed more than 2 million times. A twisted take on a crazy Japanese
talk show, Gorgeous Tiny Chicken Machine Show features Kiko, the show’s host, as she bewilders
and abuses her guests with the help of her sidekicks, Panda and Unicow (a
unicorn cow).

The weekends will feature Best
of Penn Says, a collection of the
most popular episodes from Penn Jillette’s unscripted web series, Penn Says. The outspoken host tackles a variety of topical
issues in his rants that take place whenever inspiration hits him, whether it’s
backstage at his Vegas shows, a friend’s living room or on the road. The series
is from 10-in-1 Production.

"We've tapped very
talented individuals, both established and up-and- coming, to create a spectrum
of original web series that showcase irreverent characters and stories,"
said Sean Carey, the senior executive VP of Sony Pictures Television. "By
updating the content daily, we're looking to engage, entertain and continue to
feed the appetite of digital-media users seeking more than just one-off viral
videos."

—By Ned Berke