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On Sunday 9th March, KateModern, the UK's most successful show on the web will take up residence at the Radio 1 studios for a day. An episode of KateModern will be filmed in Radio 1's infamous Live Lounge during Radio 1's Sunday night show for teens, Switch with Nick Grimshaw from 7pm. The special episode will feature appearances from Radio 1 presenter Nick Grimshaw, Radio 1 hip hop legend Tim Westwood, as well as as one of the UK's hottest new acts, Scouting For Girls.*
KateModern series producer Pete Gibbons said, "The Radio 1 episode will be one of our most exciting collaborations to date. KateModern and Bebo are certainly breaking the mould when it comes to entertainment, and to be working with another unique entertainment platform like BBC Switch is a fantastic opportunity for us."
Produced by the creators of lonelygirl15, KateModern (http://katemodern.bebo.com) is one of the most successful shows not on TV. The forerunner of Snack TV, it is a new form of online entertainment that combines bite-size 1-4 minute show episodes with live interaction. The show, which was commissioned by Bebo in April 2007, received over 35 million views in its first season, and over 4 million views in the first two weeks of season two. As with lonelygirl15, KateModern's sister show, the plot is filled with the mythology of the evil 'Order' and the creepy 'Hymn Of One' offering unlimited opportunity for viewer feedback and online conversation. Using Bebo's social networking tools, fans can catch up on KateModern as well as talk to the characters, cast and producers, solve plot puzzles and suggest future ideas for the show.
Bebo recently became the world's only global Social Media Network. This radical new vision for online media combines community, self-expression and entertainment to enable its users to consume, create, discover and share content through the Bebo website. Unlike its competitors, Bebo offers access to a line-up of high quality programmes and entertainment from professional broadcasters, independent producers and other rights owners and gives users a simple set of tools to curate their favourite online media content and communicate their tastes to everyone in their network. Founded in 2005 as an online community, Bebo has a membership of more than 40 million individuals worldwide and is geared towards an audience aged under 30, with the core of 16-24 year olds spending 2.14 billion minutes on the site per month.
LEADING ONLINE DRAMA KATEMODERN TO TEAM UP WITH BBC RADIO 1 FOR SPECIAL EPISODE FEATURING SCOUTING FOR GIRLS
March 5, 2008
London, UK - Bebo and LG15's leading online drama KateModern which averages 1.5 million views per week, will be filming a special episode in collaboration with BBC Radio 1, featuring Scouting For Girls.On Sunday 9th March, KateModern, the UK's most successful show on the web will take up residence at the Radio 1 studios for a day. An episode of KateModern will be filmed in Radio 1's infamous Live Lounge during Radio 1's Sunday night show for teens, Switch with Nick Grimshaw from 7pm. The special episode will feature appearances from Radio 1 presenter Nick Grimshaw, Radio 1 hip hop legend Tim Westwood, as well as as one of the UK's hottest new acts, Scouting For Girls.*
KateModern series producer Pete Gibbons said, "The Radio 1 episode will be one of our most exciting collaborations to date. KateModern and Bebo are certainly breaking the mould when it comes to entertainment, and to be working with another unique entertainment platform like BBC Switch is a fantastic opportunity for us."
Produced by the creators of lonelygirl15, KateModern (http://katemodern.bebo.com) is one of the most successful shows not on TV. The forerunner of Snack TV, it is a new form of online entertainment that combines bite-size 1-4 minute show episodes with live interaction. The show, which was commissioned by Bebo in April 2007, received over 35 million views in its first season, and over 4 million views in the first two weeks of season two. As with lonelygirl15, KateModern's sister show, the plot is filled with the mythology of the evil 'Order' and the creepy 'Hymn Of One' offering unlimited opportunity for viewer feedback and online conversation. Using Bebo's social networking tools, fans can catch up on KateModern as well as talk to the characters, cast and producers, solve plot puzzles and suggest future ideas for the show.
Bebo recently became the world's only global Social Media Network. This radical new vision for online media combines community, self-expression and entertainment to enable its users to consume, create, discover and share content through the Bebo website. Unlike its competitors, Bebo offers access to a line-up of high quality programmes and entertainment from professional broadcasters, independent producers and other rights owners and gives users a simple set of tools to curate their favourite online media content and communicate their tastes to everyone in their network. Founded in 2005 as an online community, Bebo has a membership of more than 40 million individuals worldwide and is geared towards an audience aged under 30, with the core of 16-24 year olds spending 2.14 billion minutes on the site per month.
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