EQAL, Polish Producers Partner on ‘Lonelygirl’ Spinoff
Update from Poland: Greg and Miles are in Warsaw, Poland this week on a press tour for N1ckola. Here is an article in Poland’s leading newspaper, Gazeta. It’s a fun read if you use an internet translator. Greg and Miles are both armed with video cameras and InsideLG15 will feature video of their travels next week.
EQAL, Polish Producers Partner on ‘Lonelygirl’ Spinoff
From TV Week
By Daisy Whitney
“The producers behind “Lonelygirl15” and “KateModern” inked a deal to license a new show in the “Lonelygirl15” saga to Polish producers Agora and A2 Multimedia, the companies announced today. The new show, “N1ckola,” blends reality, documentary and fiction, said EQAL, the creators of the show.”
“It was always our hope to expand the ‘LG15’ universe into new countries through full-format licensing deals like this one with Agora,” said Greg Goodfried, one of the EQAL founders. “‘N1ckola’ is the perfect example of a business model we’d like to replicate in the future in even more countries.”
January 21st, 2009 at 10:11 am
Here’s some more (secretly encoded) information about A2 Multimedia…
(Big Brother? Supermen?)
http://www.atmgrupa.pl/FrontControler/SpolkiGrupy/A2
A2 Multimedia należy do ATM Grupa S.A. i Agora S.A. Kapitał zakładowy spółki wynosi 4 mln zł i składa się z 8 tys. udziałów o wartości nominalnej 500 zł każdy. We wspólnym przedsięwzięciu obie firmy objęły po 50% udziałów. ATM Grupa objęła 4 tys. udziałów o wartości nominalnej 500 zł każdy, pozostałe 4 tys. udziałów o takiej samej wartości objęła Agora. Spółka uzyskała wpis do KRS w dniu 12 lutego 2008.
Spółka A2 Multimedia zajmuje się produkcją i dystrybucją formatów wideo udostępnianych przez internet w postaci cyfrowej. Pierwszym przedsięwzięciem spółki jest portal TiVi.pl. Producentem materiałów do portalu są: ATM Grupa i Agora.
Najnowszy projekt platformy TiVi.pl, należącej do spółki A2 Multimedia -„BBWYŚCIG” miał swoją premierową odsłonę w styczniu 2008. „BBWYŚCIG” to internetowa gra, w której główną nagrodą jest uczestnictwo w piątej edycji popularnego reality show „Big Brother”. Projekt jest kontynuacją sukcesu poprzednich edycji BB.
We wrześniu 2007 roku w studiu ATM Grupy na wrocławskich Bielanach rozpoczęła się czwarta edycja programu “Big Brother”. Reality show – produkowane przez ATM Grupę i Endemol Polska – powstało przy użyciu najnowocześniejszych technik, a serwis bb4.tivt.pl - oparty na ideach społecznościowych oraz cross mediowych - cieszył się dużą popularnością wśród internautów. Był to jeden z pierwszych projektów w polskiej sieci, działających na tak bliskim styku telewizji i internetu.
W tym samym roku uruchomiono na platformie TiVi.pl kolejne, po serwisie BB4, kanały, takie jak „SUPERMEN-da”, „Waga” czy „Łazienka” – jedne z pierwszych w Polsce miniseriali przeznaczonych do emisji w internecie. Inne kanały to przedsięwzięcia cross-mediowe: „Happy Hour” - oficjalna strona programu plotkarskiego emitowanego na antenie TV4 i „Kiepscy od kuchni” - strona przedstawiająca kulisy powstawania kultowego serialu emitowanego w telewizji Polsat.
January 21st, 2009 at 10:14 am
Also, this info. from the original TV Week article:
http://www.tvweek.com/news/2009/01/eqal_polish_producers_partner.php
“The producers will create more than 100 episodes of the show, each one running one to five minutes, with new installments debuting four to five times each week. The show premieres Jan. 26 with sponsors including Microsoft, Hasbro, Polkomtel and Samsung.”
I wonder if this will be an original new story in the Lonelygirl15 world, or will it be a direct translation/remake into Polish as was done in a Japanese production. Will it be done in Polish?
January 21st, 2009 at 10:46 am
So “N1ckola” is in the LG15 Universe, canon, and will be made in the Polish language?
January 21st, 2009 at 10:47 am
Wait if this debuts on the 26th, why are we just hearing about it now?
January 21st, 2009 at 10:54 am
I knew you guys were up to something.
Anyone in the community speak polish? hahahaha
I’m sure we can convince some new polish fan to translate! Through whatever means necessary
January 21st, 2009 at 11:00 am
=D
Another series! This is so cool!
Except…I don’t know Polish…
…
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Is there any news about the one in Italy?
January 21st, 2009 at 11:17 am
That’s excellent! Congrats!
I hope there are plans for English translations. Also for Lucy to make an appearance.
January 21st, 2009 at 11:25 am
I wish my grandmother had taught me Polish now! I hope they translate it so we can watch it:)
January 21st, 2009 at 11:31 am
The Japanese show I mentioned was a direct remake of Prom Queen called “Tokyo Prom Queen.” http://www.promqueen.jp/
January 21st, 2009 at 12:09 pm
Here’s a broken translation of the interview from google translate:
The surgeon, a lawyer. Where in the company of LonelyGirl15?
Miles Beckett: surgeon does not work for me. I always loved writing, directors and internet. When I started from the comedy clips, spędzałem much time on YouTube. I saw how popular are wideopamiętniki. I thought: what if it was not just a diary, but part of a larger story, which will gradually stretch the distance to reveal?
Greg Goodfried: As a lawyer represented clients who are doing exciting things. One of them was Miles. He told me about the idea at the series, so it started. It was something new - it hits on YouTube 10 million people watched, but they were isolated filmiki - pirated recording of the “Saturday Night Live” or a clip, as wygłupia someone in the garden.
Intentionally not ujawnialiście that this is not amateur production?
GG: In this way we could encourage more people to show them that it is in general something like seriale online. That you can see something on the Internet and track each day, as the story develops. When people are przyzwyczaili, you can tell them: to fictitious characters, professional production. Yes we did with “KateModern” Bebo service - from the beginning advertised it as a professional show.
MB: That if they knew that it was fiction or not, had no meaning. Because when we heard, the audience “LonelyGirl15″ even increased! It is essential to spin those productions, so that sprawiały real impression. That recall is that the Internet is another medium - the audience, sitting at your computer, click on a moment to check e-mail or send a friend something. Sections must be brief, because people are not able to focus on something more than two three minutes. Half-hour show will not work here. I need to engage the audience to dialogue with the characters.
In total, your seriale accessed more than 200 million times. How many of them are steel viewers?
GG: Only on our side, we have LG15.com month more than 100 thousand. unique users. In total, from YouTube and other channels will be probably 250-300 thousand. So more or less the same as a program on MTV.
Chwalicie interactivity with the audience how many of them send messages, comments, puts your own photos or videos?
M.B.: 10, may 15 thousand. people.
That much?
M.B.: Exits about 10 percent. viewers. This is a good result, because higher than the conversion rate for online services [the percentage of users of our service, which establish the account]
G.G.: If these 10 percent. it was not active, the rest of Internet users after two minutes znikałaby the site. And so people spend on it 10-12 minutes, the most active - after two or three hours.
What money?
HH: Ads do not have even if you will, is very short: two-, three-. We sell licenses for local versions of “LonelyGirl15,” advises television stations, as the series moved from the TV screen to the Internet. At this time, the cost is covered mainly sponsors - enough to pay the writers, director, actors, etc. And a small profit. It is not a big amount, but soon the money will flow from television to the Internet a wider stream. When you work on every series, there are three or four brands, which are part of a series that przewijają in the following sections. For example, if it was a jam [Greg raises it from the table], the series can play a company specializing in producing jams. Or the hero of the series needs to find a message on the table and it turns out that the label on the jar is stored in the bar code.
Product placement jam?
M.B.: No, it’s just an example (laughs). But in? KateModern? was a guy who parted with my girlfriend. In office, he ruins the router, so together with a partner are going to shop Orange. And there is Julia, a really good grace. They are beginning to flirt with her, and Julia is trying to sell them to the router. Julia then appear in subsequent episodes. For this event we did in London: actors betrayed that they would be the next morning in a shop Orange. He met with fans and chose to tour around the city.
One day become a competition for television?
G.G.: Probably part of it. People will always want to watch an hour or even half-hourly gate programs. But if you love “CSI”, it should have an Internet version of the series. Already begun in this direction to work with CBS station - in April launched a new series “Harper’s Island”, we want to tell this story on the Internet, to develop some threads. Start earlier than television, even in March. Some of the heroes of the television screen will appear in the web series, and vice versa.
We will not compete with TV. Rather, the 15-latką from YouTube or someone who will be recorded talk-show in the middle of your room.
January 21st, 2009 at 12:20 pm
Gratulacj&
Cokolwiek zdarzał się któremu dziewczyna *N1kola*?
January 21st, 2009 at 1:14 pm
oh it would be great to see it subbed in english
January 21st, 2009 at 1:52 pm
That’s awesome, congrats!
January 21st, 2009 at 2:38 pm
Wow! My country? Really? How cool is that? ;D
I wanted to translate the text for you, but when i was in the middle of it, my firefox crashed and i lost it, so i’m too frustrated now to translate it again, sorry! Maybe later…
January 21st, 2009 at 2:53 pm
Hopefully someone on YouTube can translate it to English.
So wait, is there still plans in the works for an Italian series? Or was that given up for this Polish series?
January 21st, 2009 at 5:30 pm
Mjuzz you’re from Poland?!?!?!
You might quickly become the most popular LG15 fan! (i.e. people will be begging for translations….)
Thanks for trying, even if firefox crashed on you!
January 21st, 2009 at 6:41 pm
Well it sounds exciting but too bad it will be in a language that most of us here don’t understand so we can’t really enjoy it.
Hopefully there will at least be English subtitles.
January 22nd, 2009 at 9:59 am
Ok… does anyone have a translation for the opening page of the n1ckola site?
wkrotce dowiesz sie wiecej….. the dowiesz translates to “you will inform”… but I can’t seem to translate the rest.
January 22nd, 2009 at 10:39 am
Ive got some polish members on my own website, and they are looking out for news stuff for me. They found these.
http://www.wirtualnemedia.pl/article/2607355_Powstala_polska_wersja_LonleyGirl15.htm
http://media2.pl/internet/46410-n1ckola-nowy-serial-internetowy-agory.html
http://www.stopklatka.pl/wydarzenia/wydarzenie.asp?wi=51923
The last one has pictures, cast maybe?
January 22nd, 2009 at 12:40 pm
Use your phone keyborad and recode: n1ckola = 6125652.
Then go on www.6125652.pl
There is the a teaser…
January 22nd, 2009 at 3:12 pm
“wkrótce dowiesz się więcej” = “soon you’ll know more”
January 31st, 2009 at 6:46 pm
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June 20th, 2009 at 2:32 am
Да,согласен с предыдущими неудачниками
^..^