The Onion News Network Gets An Actual TV Network
by MICHAEL TUNISON / KIDS IN THE HALL / THE ONION / TV
Perhaps this is the start of a groundswell of Internet video projects getting optioned into TV shows. Or maybe it’s just that television is in the process of picking off the few viable ones that are presently available. Either way, The Onion News Network is making its way to the Independent Film Channel. The announcement comes about a month since Funny or Die debuted its series for HBO, though, in my opinion, that series has yet to really find its footing or produce much noteworthy content since moving the airwaves.
The Onion series wasn’t the only coup that IFC has in store for us. Beginning in August, the network will air an eight-episode miniseries from the Kids in the Hall called “Death Comes to Town”. Combine that with the recent news that IFC acquired the U.S. rights to air the inspired British series “The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret”, and what has been a channel generally barren of standout programming suddenly has three of the more intriguing upcoming series on TV. And not really ever having a previous reason to watch IFC, I’ll be off checking whether I can actually get it.
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Nonpopulist
— January 20‚ 2009 —
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