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SING… SING A SONG | Yet despite Day’s experience as a web series auteur, the role of Penny would present a first for her, as well. “She’d already done it, she knew what she was doing and she’s got social media by the balls.” As such, “We certainly weren’t the first,” Fillion notes.
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“If we were pioneering, she was our guide,” Fillion says. Horrible is often hailed as a shining example of what can accomplish without the backing of a major studio/outlet, Day herself had already braved this territory, with the gaming-themed series The Guild. Whedon initially shopped the project as part of a deal he had with Amazon, but even he cops to halfheartedly pitching it a la “‘And here’s the one you’re not going to want.’ And they were like, ‘Yeah, we don’t want that.’ So we did it ourselves, and by the time we got rolling the strike was over.” Horrible - or, “a weird sort of autobiographical study of someone’s descent into madness” - before the WGA strike hit. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog reunion event, where they reflected on the ambitious (but not overly so) enterprise, shared budget-cutting secrets and pondered where their characters are now.Ī HORRIBLE IDEA IS BORN | Whedon had the idea for Dr. TVLine spoke with Joss Whedon and his Horrible leads, just prior to their Saturday night Q&A at The Paley Center for Media’s Dr. Simon Helberg ( The Big Bang Theory) co-starred as Horrible’s lamely powered pal, Moist. The project starred Neil Patrick Harris (who at the time was in the midst of How I Met Your Mother Season 2) as the titular wannabe supervillain, plus Whedonverse alumni Nathan Fillion (between his Desperate Housewives arc and Castle debut) and Felicia Day (who as creator of The Guild knew a thing or two about web series), playing arch-enemy Captain Hammer and love interest Penny. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, a three-act musical comedy crafted by Whedon brothers Joss, Zack and Jed, along with Maurissa Tancharoen, and financed for barely $200,000.
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Eight years ago this November, the Writers Guild of America went on strike, a 12-week work stoppage that ultimately scored scribes (among other things) a piece of the growing digital-media pie, but also would come to be blamed for derailing shows such as Heroes and Pushing Daisies while allowing unscripted “reality” programming to gain a firmer foothold in the TV landscape.