What's the future of Web video? Lots of giggling blond girls, if MySpace has its way. MySpace TV just launched Roommates, the first original series created specifically for the site.
Created in conjunction with Iron Sink Media, the series revolves around eight attractive females who have recently graduated from college.
Roommates seeks to appeal to the large overlap of viewership between those who strive to be attractive sorority girls, and those who just like to look at them. Both demos should be sufficiently satisfied by the highbrow subject matter tackled by the series. Says NewTeeVee: "the first episode features one of the girls standing in her underwear scolding her dog, followed by some girl-on-girl farting."
You're going to have to take their word for that one. I didn't make it that far into the first three minute webisode.
The series is scripted, though MySpace seems to be positioning it as something of an even ditzier version of The Real World, leading some on the Web to mistakenly refer to it as a "reality series" (not that reality shows are ever especially real to begin begin with, of course, but let's digress from the moment).
The interesting thing here, however, is the interaction between the series and the Myspace community. Character profiles and vlogs aren't especially groundbreaking, but the fact that MySpace audience interaction will affect the storyline certainly gives the series something of an edge.
Roommates premiers today, running Monday through Friday, until December 21, for a totally of 45 glorious episodes.
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