It's posted. Whatcha think? I'm kind of surprised that Charlie was willing to do all that for those folks.

It came done to the last minute. We had some trouble casting the mother, but we were able to talk a friend of ours into stepping in at the last moment. We shot that scene on Saturday, dropped it into place, and posted what we had.

So what's next:

This coming week we'll be premiering our new podcast, Sunday Nite Matinee. It's for people who like to listen to other people talk about things... like movies, webseries and other nonsense that has to be filmed or videotape or posted on interwebs. Confused about the things you should be paying attention to, let us inform you. Want to feel smart, listen to us ramble for a moment, you'll be feeling bright in no time.

This summer we will be making a small transition. The next series will probably not debut until early fall -- but fear not, we will still be posting programming. We have a few little gimmicky trinkets we want to trot out before we get into the next series, and we will be posting such every other week. That's right, we are moving to an every other week format, for the foreseeable future anyhow, we'll see how it goes come fall. So this Sunday, look for our new podcast, and next Sunday we'll post a little blooper reel of Casey flubbing his lines and whatnot. Also, a website design coming soon, which will have a more complete schedule posted.

Hope you enjoyed CB+TNB, and if you didn't, why did you bother watching the whole thing....

Oh, and you that just read this, why not create a log in so that you can leave a comment about how lame you think it is that you have to log in to leave comments.

Cheers.

So there's this new log-in system. Had to be done, or else we were all likely to turn into zombie-like walking erections. It's a move we had already contemplated before the spam invasion -- just as a way of collecting your email addresses so we can email you about news from the site, which of course you can opt out of, but I promise from the bottom of my apathetic heart, they will be infrequent. We also plan to offer some members-only content. Deleted scenes, new podcasts, free puppies -- you know, like Bill O'Reilly does for his fans; we are sort of like the Bill O'Reilly of webseries, only with better hair.

So this weekend is the last episode of CB+TNB. What do you think? I'm thinking Charlie might not wake up from that blow from O... or maybe the Marina will pick up with Roger...

So sign up to be a member of the site; it's not just for leaving comments. And then you'll get to be apart of a very exclusive club.

How the next few weeks will work:

This week we will be posting a commentary track for the entire Tomorrow Awakes series; featuring Camilo Ramon, Dustin and myself.

Next week will a package of CB+TNB episodes, nos. 5 - 8, much like we did for 1 - 4.

The following week will be your Charlie Brown + The New Black finale -- an extra-special, double episode event. The internet television event of the summer that everyone will be talking about.

Cats,

No.4's post. Half of a double feat you could say. We finish cocktail 'round No.5 -- slide into a touch of post. Coming in seven we order a little reprieve, name it a look-back. Get your eyes on a re-vamped 1 - 4 that'll play like a single.

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Came to the conclusion that it might be necessary to spend a little more than 6, 8 minutes a pop in this world. For it to have real impact, and to optimize coherency, one might need to spend a few more ticks with Charlie. Next week, we connect the first four episodes, improve what needs improving, and create a nice half-hour of connects, beads, posts and Charlie. No. 5 will premiere the 21st.

Podcast

From the New Yorker. There is an article in this week's edition detailing the films and relationship of Truffaut and Godard. The article isn't online, but give it a glance if you pass by a newsstand. The podcast is worth a listen, as kind of a refresher course.

You needed them both really. You needed Truffaut to challenge the stories told by the studios, to photograph stories of personal drama, a narrative that feels like life not cinema, someone to lead us to Cassavettes; and you needed someone to challenge how those stories were told.

You needed Godard to shoot films that knew they were films. The narrative, the image, sure -- but the celluloid itself can be the art, how it's handled, how it's manipulated can be the story. The film is the narrative, not the plot.

The article leaves out what I believe to be the best film created by either man -- Jules et Jim. Breathless, 400 Blows, milestones, but the culminating film of the New Wave movement is Truffaut's Jules et Jim. A film that combines both the (Godard's) visual stylings (not actually a word), and the (Truffaut's) inward-looking drama that is the New Wave. Also, come to think of it, the article doesn't mention Renior or Nicholas Ray, either. Hitchcock and Hawkes obviously -- for the creation of the auteur theory, they're essential; but when it comes the films themselves, it is Ray and Renoir's work with which Godard and Truffuat's films have a more natural connection.

Come on, the bridge scene, take another look. There's no subtitles, but who needs it.

Been a while... Wanted to take a moment to give you some insights into our newest series. We'll begin with the beginning.

Around what I guess was the sixth week of Tomorrow Awakes, Dustin and I began to panic, just a touch. The next project I had been writing was more ambitious than Tomorrow Awakes and was going to demand some serious pre-production, including some location scouting through the Mountain West. The project is what we've been calling a snow-western, so it demands the both west and the snow. The west, not a problem, snow, in LA... We could have made it work somehow, but we really wanted the snow-western to punch so... back to week six of Tomorrow Awakes, which about seven weeks ago... We're standing in the kitchen; debating, brainstorming trying to come up with a way to make the snow-western work, a way to keep putting up new work every Sunday. We decided we liked the snow-western idea too much to fuck it up with rushed production. Now what... We had about a month to air something -- there's always cheesy sketch comedy, it's a webseries favorite, fuck that we said in chorus. Adapt a play I'd once written: I didn't have the interest. Take submissions from other peeps -- didn't trust it. At one point I blurted out noir. It struck a chord, Dustin was into it. That was all that was said: noir. Within about an hour, I barged in his room -- an actor looking for a part. I'm still not sure if he knew what I was referring to. The next week I had a couple of episode written, we put out a casting notice (knew we wanted Casey for the lead) and there you have it -- the origins of the series, for better or worse.

Tomorrow Awakes began as a sort of experiment -- to see how well-versed we were in the technology, to find out how far you can stretch a two man crew and to see how far we could bend the learning curve, while still being true to the narrative.

The first draft of the first episode of Tomorrow Awakes was wildly different. It was some kind of Dark City rip-off where "agents" manipulated peoples dreams so that when they woke up they were different people than the night before -- something like that; I remember there was a lot office cubicles and instant messaging. It was pretty lame, but was written in the spirit of an experiment. I rewrote it, obviously, but the title remained.

We started shooting Tomorrow Awakes in, I guess, September of '07. We shot mostly on weekends because during the week we would be working on pre-production, and occasionally I was still writing episodes.

As we became more comfortable in what we were doing, the idea of it being an experiment began to wain, and we really started to focus in on the production and the story. To put it bluntly, we were much more satisfied with the end-product than we thought we would be.

The first day of shooting, I was of the mind-set that we would have to hire more people, that we just couldn't do all this ourselves. I felt uncomfortable behind the camera, I wanted a D.P., Dustin talked me out of it. Dustin had never worked on After Effects before, now we needed green screen work and lasers and composites and... He picked it up so quick. As our confidence grew so did the production. I still think we could use another person, just to bring us lunch; but to shoot like that you do need some talented and laid-back actors, who are willing to help carry gear on two mile hikes up rocky hillside to a cave that a stubborn director insist we use.

In the end, Tomorrow Awakes was a blast, we enjoyed everyone we worked with. We started out over heads and ended up treaded like enough to tell the story and capture a few quality images along. With new project, we feel certain, sundaynite.tv will get better and better...

Vanity note: Soon, look for the least-requested commentary track ever: The Tomorrow Awakes director/producer commentary -- if only for our own jollies.

• CB+TNB + New Podcast

• New System

• Programming Update

• Nos.(1-4)

• G+T

• CB+TNB (No.1)

• Some Final Thoughts on Tomorrow Awakes