Sophia’s Diary Unlocks a Second Season on Bebo
The news is that the UK webseries SOPHIA’S DIARY has been picked up for a second season on the popular site Bebo (recently acquired by AOL).
“The online drama, which follows a feisty 17-year-old and her friends, invites users of the social network to vote on twists in the storyline. Sofia’s Diary typically attracts upwards of 1,000 comments each day on the show’s Bebo channel and character profile pages.” (via GuardianUK)
What’s interesting to note here is that the second season will consist of 64 episodes. This is a much larger commitment to a storyline than so many of the US webseries we’ve seen that seem to be content putting up an episode a week for a couple of months and then dying off quietly in a dark corner of the web.
Obviously, this sort of commitment takes money and clearly Bebo/AOL is investing at least some cash into this venture – though I doubt anyone is getting rich just yet.
This series is a clear decendent of lonelygirl15 and demonstrates that, given the right target audience, exposure and comittment a webseries can be a serious entertainment contender.
Tags: aol, bebo, sophia's diary, webseries
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May 29, 2008 2:35 pm
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