inside LG15

Hi Everyone,

This has been an unfortunate, frustrating and sleep deprived night… currently it is 12pm (in Australia) and we have been working on uploading the video all night but our internet was affected by a massive power station outage which caused the need to re upload MULTIPLE times and due to the excess strain it kept timing out.  (Sibylla has been dispatched to deal with the culprits as we speak! )

It is such a shame for the delay and now with this public holiday weekend our storyline will unfortunately suffer as the video today was supposed to be a direct continuation and will not be posted until Monday .

For Monday, what we can tell you, there will be blood and someone in The Last WILL be betrayed.

Thank you all so much.  We appreciate your patience and support.

- The Lasties

Quietus:- noun

1. a finishing stroke; anything that effectually ends or settles.

2. discharge or release from life.

3. a period of retirement or inactivity.

Things won’t be quiet for long as the LG15: The Last finale begins on June 30. The “Quietus” finale will run for 6 days as we discover just who is Sibbyla Weave.

Hey everyone,

It’s been a bit since we gave you any updates about LG15 and the website, and we apologize for that. It’s been a challenging but exciting year for us at EQAL. We’ve worked hard to build a technology product, sign deals, and launch shows, all in the worst economy since the Great Depression. The advertising industry has been particularly hard hit, and as you know we finance our shows by selling sponsorships to brands. Thanks to companies like Neutrogena, 20th Century Fox, P&G, Microsoft, Orange, Paramount, Disney, Toyota, Cadburys, and others we’ve been able to produce free entertainment for all of you to enjoy. Unfortunately when the ad market “vanished” last fall it became very, very, very difficult to get advertisers to finance new original series online. We need to build a profitable company so that we can continue to produce high-quality free entertainment for all of you, and so we made a strategic shift. Over the past six months we’ve focused on extending existing entertainment brands online, and thanks to that decision the company is doing well and we’re launching really cool shows with Paula Deen, Anthony E. Zuiker’s Level 26, and Alicia Silverstone. There are even more exciting projects like this in the works that we think you’ll love.

We know that you feel like we have “forgotten” about the LG15 community. Well, we haven’t. We’ve been really busy and sometimes things slip through the cracks. We loved producing “LG15: The Resistance,” but we went out of pocket to get it off the ground and because we launched it during the economic meltdown we weren’t able to get sponsors for a Season 2. Fortunately, LG15 is doing great via LG15: TSIY and through our international licensing efforts. We’re psyched to see how well the LG15 community has responded to LG15: The Last, and we’re just excited as you are about the finale. Amanda is working with them right now to finalize the schedule. N1ck0la, LG15’s Polish spin-off, is doing great and we’re excited with how strongly the community out there has responded to it. As you may have seen, we licensed LG15 to a Japanese company, so lonelygirl15 and KateModern will find a whole new life with a Japanese audience, and they might produce a local version of LG15 for Japan. We’re working on even more international licensing of the brand.

In terms of the website: Yes, we know the software is old and cranky. Unfortunately we made a variety of deep structural database changes when we created the new version of the software and launched Harper’s Globe, so it is not simply a matter of “pushing a button” to upgrade LG15 to the new software. Tyler and Patrick are looking into this today and by the end of next week we’ll know how much work it will take to upgrade the site. If we can’t do a seamless upgrade, we have some other options as well. Either way we will be re-launching LG15.com on the new software to coincide with a new season of TSIY sometime in August/September. Once LG15 is on the new software it will receive regular upgrades just like Harper’s, Paula, and all of our other sites.

Finally, regarding my comments in the NewTeeVee and MediaWeek articles. Although we aren’t producing original online series right now, we would very much like to return to that when the advertising markets recover. As it pertains to LG15, we want to see more of the ongoing adventures of Daniel, Jonas, Sarah, Lucy, and the gang as much as you do. We don’t want to do it half-ass, so we need to wait until the time is right so that we can bring back LG15 with a bang. In the meantime we’ll be launching more international versions of the show to bring a bigger and bigger audience to the brand, and we’ll continue to add features to the LG15 website so that it’s easier and easier for you guys to contribute to the LG15 mythology.

Thanks.

Greg

Hi Everyone! Thank you for your patience as “LG15: The Last” has gone on a short hiatus.   The cast and crew are busy filming videos for a spectacular finale that will air at the end of June.  In the meantime, start working on your pilots for “LG15: The Show Is Yours” Season 2.  We will begin taking submissions very soon. Stay tuned to Inside LG15 for more details.

Mystery and intrigue, romance, and backstabbing friendships have all been sources of tension for the characters of LG15: The Last.  Each of the photos below represent these ongoing tensions.  How would you describe them?  Fill in the captions in the comments below.

Jayde and Antonia: THEY TAKE FRENEMIES TO A WHOLE NEW LEVEL!

Chas and Jayde: TOO MANY SECRETS?

Bray and Antonia: IT’S ABOUT TIME!

Hey LG15′ers! While you’re taking a break from watching LG15: The Last, please check out tonight’s premiere of Harper’s Island at 10:00 pm on CBS. If you haven’t already, please watch Episode 4 of Harper’s Globe. Hint: You’re going to see Ben in tonight’s episode of Harper’s Island.

Also, check out this new Harper’s Globe widget. Paste, embed, copy, and share it wherever you can!

Running from The Order and keeping your cool around the opposite sex can be a difficult balancing act.  How are these possible couples handling it?

 Leigh and Mitch

Admiration from afar? What are Leigh’s true intentions?

Jayde and Bray

Is there something between them?

Antonia and Bray

What do they see in each other? Weren’t they bitter enemies?

Download these and other pictures of LG15: THE LAST on the LG15 flickr account.  Follow the characters and see how their story is unfolding on the LGPedia.

Jayde is getting bored sitting around with nothing to do in that house.  To pass the time, Jayde has decided to hold a video chat during which she might be able to share a bit of information with you. Write a question or a suggested topic of conversation in the comments below and watch Jayde to see if she addresses your question.

Jayde will be chatting on her stickam account this Friday, April 3.

International times for the chat:

9:30am Saturday the 4th April Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST)

3:30pm Friday 3rd April Pacific Standard Time (PST)

7:30pm Friday 3rd April Eastern Standard Time (EST)

11:30pm Friday 3rd April Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)

From the set of LG15: The Last:

Catherine Williams, Emily Robinson, and Samantha Carr at the LG15: The Last production office.

 Andrew Stouthos directing James Olds (Bray) and Samantha (Antonia) in the video “Welcome Back”.

Catherine doing Samantha’s makeup for the video “Call Me Toni”.

Tonight at 7:00 PM PST (1:00 PM AEST) Chas from LG15: The Last will be chatting live on stickam.com/chas_sings.

Chas will be setting the record straight about her motives and answering your questions.  Do you have a question you’d like answered tonight? Leave it in the comments below.

lonelygirl15 alum Melanie Merkosky, the star of EQAL’s new show Harper’s Globe, appeared on ET Canada this week to discuss her latest role.

Miles Beckett sat down with the daily marauder to discuss EQAL’s new show, Harper’s Globe.

This is just the beginning of Harper’s Globe. Get involved now and stay tuned for the premiere on March 18!!!

Watch the new trailer for Harper’s Globe, join the discussion at www.HarpersGlobe.com, and comment on the youtube channel.

Download our new artwork for the show, embed it on your profiles, and share with your friends.

I hope you are all as excited as I am about the launch of LG15: The Last!  The trailer looked awesome and the first episode was really great.  The team in Australia is working hard to produce an amazing show for the LG15 community to enjoy so we hope you will all show your support by watching it and rooting them on.

It’s been awhile since I’ve posted, but Greg and I and the entire team at EQAL have been super busy gearing up for the launch of some exciting new projects.  As you all know, we’re rapidly approaching the launch of Harper’s Globe, which will run in conjunction with CBS’s new show, Harper’s Island.  HarpersGlobe.com will be hosted on the latest iteration of our software and will offer a ton of new features that I think you’re all going to be very excited about.  The show page, profile pages, and forums have a received a MAJOR overhaul and will make it much easier for you to enjoy the show and discuss with your friends.

Despite this, we haven’t forgotten about the LG15 community.  We can’t “flip a switch” and upgrade LG15.com, but we’ll be working rapidly to upgrade the database schema to match the new framework and re-launch LG15.com with the new features.  That’s right, all the features you see on HarpersGlobe.com will make their way to LG15.com in the near future.  Finally, I know that it’s been tough for Zoey to run the LGPedia without a lot of help, and it’s particularly frustrating for me because I love using it as a resource.  We don’t have someone inside the company dedicated to the job, but we’re very fortunate to now have user “FH14″ (Andrew IRL) who will work with Zoey as an admin on the LGPedia.  We’ve spent some time thinking about the best way to run the LGPedia and have prepared a mission statement to guide admins and community editors to make it the best resource for all members of the LG15 community:

“The goal of the LGPedia is to compile the most accurate and thorough knowledge base of everything in the LG15 Universe.  It is a community-editable wiki and will contain both official information and photos released by the LG15 team and other material created and edited by the community.  At times, we may need to lock pages and/or make “official” edits in order to correct mis-information or protect the privacy of members of the various productions.  We’ll work with the community to keep the LGPedia branding consistent with the LG15 Universe and various productions.  This may mean providing official photos for actors and crew, official logos, and other elements that will improve the information offered in the LGPedia.  Although we’re big fans of every great web series out there, because the LGPedia is dedicated to the LG15 Universe, it should only include information about shows in the LG15 Universe or featured on LG15.com.  For instance, “Harper’s Globe” will have it’s own wiki on HarpersGlobe.com where you can compile information relevant to the Harper’s Island/Globe Universe.  If unrelated shows are included in the LGPedia, it should only be as a reference or link to the appropriate external website (e.g. to reference other productions LG15 cast/crew are a part of).  Thanks for working with us to make the LGPedia the best resource for members of the LG15 community around the world.”

Thanks everyone and enjoy both LG15: The Last and Harper’s Globe.

Miles