Minisodes anyone?
The guys at Sony came up with a novel idea: Minisodes (=mini episodes) of classic television series like Charlies Angels. In the ’70s , Kate Jackson, Farrah Fawcett and Jaclyn Smith took
a half-hour to solve a crime. Now, in“minisodes,” they do it in
3 minutes. That’s the length Sony has shrunk episodes down to in order to create
what the
company hopes is an appealing new business in retooling old
shows for a new era of entertainment. As Steve Mosko, the president of Sony Television, described it, “So in
‘Charlie Angels,’ they have a meeting, Charlie’s on the intercom
telling them what the assignment is, there’s a couple of fights, and
then a chase, and they catch the bad guy. Then they’re back home
wrapping it up.”
The plan gained traction when Sony executives saw the
“Seven-Minute Sopranos,” a condensation of the 77-hour HBO series that
was posted on YouTube last March.
I guess the plot of the Charlies Angels is so thin if Sony wants they can produce 30" episodes...
Let's wait for the my dream: The Ring of Wagner in 10 minutes (sorry Eddie)
