Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman’s Playtone, along with Lexus’ LStudio have launched web series The Three Minute Talk Show, which premiered last month on LStudio’s Broadband Channel. The series, which debuts a new episode every Wednesday at www.lstudio.com, features everything that audiences have come to expect from a talk show all condensed into approximately three minutes. Saturday Night Live veteran and Emmy®-nominated comedian Barry Sobel hosts the show along with Emmy-nominated actor Fred Willard, who serves as co-host. The show’s band is led by international music star Ben Lee.
Guests confirmed to appear include Jon Cryer, Bryan Cranston, Johnny Knoxville, Stephen Moyer, Wilmer Valderrama, Ginnifer Goodwin, Cedric the Entertainer, Joe Jonas, and Mike O’Malley. Series creator Tom Hanks was the star guest on the first episode.
“The Three Minute Talk Show is exactly the type of content we strive to showcase on LStudio,” said Dave Nordstrom, Lexus’ VP of marketing. “Our goal has been to create an online destination with high-quality, thought-provoking material that consumers would want to return to again and again. Playtone’s innovative and entertaining content is the perfect fit and represents the next big step in establishing LStudio as a premiere, branded entertainment site.”
Content for LStudio.com is produced and distributed by Intelligent Life Productions in collaboration with Team One Advertising for Lexus. Creative Artists Agency brokered the deal for The Three Minute Talk Show with Intelligent Life Productions.
RUCKELS BUILD DREAM HOUSE
Postproduuction vet Fred Ruckel, creative director at Stitch, New York, is now a TV series creator/producer as he and his wife Natasha have teamed on Dream House, a primetime series on the DIY Network based on their trials and tribulations in constructing a get-away home in the Catskill Mountains. The series chronicles the entire process from buying the land to applying the last coat of paint on the log cabin.
Dream House debuted last month and has been running weekly. In the first half-hour episode, the Ruckels had to deal with a nasty neighbor who puts them in a compromising position, a contractor that can’t see the light through the trees, and a robbery.
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Independent San Francisco ad agency Venables Bell & Partners has promoted Erich Pfeifer from associate creative director to creative director. A six-year veteran of VB&P, Pfeifer has played a key role in the agency’s growth from a 24-person shop to the 164-person agency it is today. While at the agency, he’s led Audi, producing some of the most talked about automotive and Super Bowl advertising. He led Audi’s “Green Police” Super Bowl spot which was not only nominated for an Emmy last year, but also received almost three billion earned media impressions with coverage on The Today Show, CNBC and The Early Show….Editorial house Beast has hired Mark Anderson as Smoke artist for its Chicago facility. He joins Beast after a two-year stint at Crash + Sues, Minneapolis, where he worked with a diverse list of clients such as Target, Best Buy, AAA, Subaru and FedEx. Prior to Crash + Sues, he spent 10 years at Avenue Chicago where his clients included Disney, Toyota, Crate & Barrel, Coca-Cola and McDonald’s. Beast maintains facilities in Santa Monica, New York, Austin, Detroit, Chicago and San Francisco….
