This is what we've looked like while waiting for this season of Easy To Assemble to start.
Note the large bottle of alcohol on the bedside table.
"You are home. You just don't know it yet."
This season of
Easy To Assemble is all about finding your way "home." And that's a nice idea, right? Home. Where the heart is. Where you hang your hat. Where the buffalo roam. Where you sometimes have to slide head-first in order to beat the throw from left field to make sure you're safe.
Home.
And we're pretty glad that Easy To Assemble's home is My Damn Channel, you know? We like to think that we know original web series better than almost anyone, and Easy To Assemble is one of the best web series around, at least according to the
LA Times. So... while it may have taken a little longer than we originally anticipated to bring Season 3 "Finding North" to you, it feels like going home for us to be able to present it to you now since
This is what we do. This is the caliber of talent we work with. This is how it's supposed to go for us. This is home.
Oh, and there's some "making out" in the
first episode so you should totally watch it just for that.
Illeana Douglas and Mary Lynn Rajskub
(photo credit: ©2011 Kathy Hutchins / Hutchins Photo)
As you
may have heard,
Easy To Assemble: Season 3, "Finding North" premieres on My Damn Channel on October 18th.
To celebrate, we had a good old-fashioned Hollywood premiere at the Egyptian Theatre. See who was there:
John Cho
(photo credit: ©2011 Kathy Hutchins / Hutchins Photo)
Andy Dick and Dave Foley
(photo credit: ©2011 Kathy Hutchins / Hutchins Photo)
Carly Craig
(photo credit: ©2011 Kathy Hutchins / Hutchins Photo)
Craig Bierko and his dog
(photo credit: ©2011 Kathy Hutchins / Hutchins Photo)
Corey Feldman
(photo credit: ©2011 Kathy Hutchins / Hutchins Photo)
And, of course, My Damn Channel CEO/Founder Rob Barnett with Easy To Assemble creator/star Illeana Douglas and director Michael Kang.
(photo credit: ©2011 Kathy Hutchins / Hutchins Photo)
We have more pictures on our
Facebook page and actor/blogger
Lynn Chen has a nice wrap-up of the event
here.
So we're pretty excited to premiere the first episode on October 18th. Until then, may the lingonberry juice be free-flowing:
(photo via Lynn Chen)
They're back.
Illeana Douglas, Justine Bateman and their IKEA co-workers are on a Swedish tour in Season 3, "Finding North." Will Illeana ever get her award for
Coworker of The Year? Is Justine still
Forty and Bitter?
Will anyone ever tell us if lingonberries are delicious mostly because we doubt they exist in the world outside IKEA stores? Will they take a side trip to China,
where many people treat IKEA stores like amusement parks? Will they go to Germany
where IKEA restaurants are more popular than McDonalds? Will anyone just come over to our house and help us put some
BILLY bookshelves together?
We'll all just have to wait and see! (Unless you really want to help us with some furniture-building. That can happen immediately.)
So, it's Sunday night and we're just chilling at home watching HBO and
True Blood comes on, and, yeah, there's vampires and werewolves and fairies and blood and sex but then there's also something kind of familiar...
Brit Morgan!
In
True Blood, she plays "Debbie Pelt," a paranoid, hyper-sexed, formerly drug-using, possibly crazy werewolf:
In
Gigi, she plays a paranoid, hyper-sexed, currently drug-using, probably crazy prostitute:
Now you can see how we recognized her: she's got this crazy-lady character thing down pretty well.
So that's how our Sunday night played out: we sat in front of the TV watching HBO. If we watched
Entourage we'd tell you how
Illeana Douglas plays Ari Gold's sister-in-law, but we don't watch that show. If we're going to watch a show about soulless blood-suckers, we'll watch the show about vampires, not Hollywood agents, thank you very much.
We'll be here all week, folks.
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Today is a new day in the world of My Damn Channel because we officially launch the My Damn Channel Blog Network with
Slacktory (http://slacktory.com).
Slacktory is helmed by one of our favorite internet users,
Nick Douglas, former editor of
Valleywag and
Urlesque, where he helped us navigate the vast internet with humor and wit. We were so impressed by him, naturally we
stalked followed Nick on Twitter and Tumblr and when he mentioned briefly that he was looking for a new challenge, we pounced. Social Media: it works!
(Nick!)
Now Nick and his merry band of writers are all part of the Damn Family. We always wanted more brothers and sisters, but Mom said "over her dead body," so this is, like, the
best kind of compromise. We get some new playmates and Mom's still alive.
Make sure you visit
Slacktory.com daily to find out what shenanigans that crazy internet has gotten itself into this time! Today, we have stories about Jessi Slaughter, a Harry Potter/Book of Mormon parody, a visit to Jack In The Box with Tom Waits and a weekly column from Mark Zuckerberg that Mark Zuckerberg has nothing to do with at all.
But, don't worry! We haven't forgotten our online video roots! Slacktory will curate, remix and mashup videos at
MyDamnChannel.com/Slacktory. Our first Slacktory
video has cats, babies and Hitler explaining "Planking," so, you know, there's something for everyone!
Slacktory is just the beginning. We're coming for you, Internet. Please continue to do ridiculous things so we always have something to talk about.
Illeana Douglas, creator and star of
Easy To Assemble, will be reading for
Celebrity Autobiography in Los Angeles, California on 2/20 and in Green Bay, Wisconsin on 3/12. Two giants of My Damn Channel
aligning their forces together!
So if you're from either of those areas - or want to travel thousands of miles cuz it'll be worth it - get your tickets
here.
And to check out more Celebrity Autobiography news, visit their
homepage.
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It's Monday, and that means it's back to work - but wait! There's good news!
"Good news?" you ask. "How could there be any good news, you jackass?" Well, Mondays mean that another new episode of The Temp Life has premiered on My Damn Channel, and this week everyone at the Celtons office is hungover - just like you are from all that New Year's celebrating you did.
So enjoy, and don't worry: Friday will be here soon enough.
We've been watching The Temp Life, a series about the head of a temp agency who falls from grace and has to temp his way back up the ladder, since CJP Digital Media created it in 2006 for Spherion Staffing Services.
With the premiere of Season 5, The Temp Life becomes the longest-running original branded entertainment web series. and we're very proud to add The Temp Life to our roster, because The Temp Life's Season 5 was written by "Legend of Neil" writers Tony Janning and Gabe Uhr, will feature guest appearances by Taryn Southern, Tony Janning and Milo Ventimiglia, and-- not least of all-- because it features some familiar faces:
Illeana Douglas as "Eve Randall"
Sandeep Parikh as "Stevie P."
Wilson Cleveland as "Nick 'Trouble' Chiapetta"
and Craig Bierko as "Eddie Chiapetta"
We won't bore you with stories of our own experiences as temps. Like the time we worked as a typist for a religious cult that sold yoga classes. Or the time we worked for a legal headhunter who made us cut and paste newspaper articles into scrapbooks that she could read each night when she took the subway home. Or the time we worked as a receptionist for a major television network and wrote down in our personal contact list all the extensions for the programming executives-- you know, just in case.
We won't tell you about all of those stories because they're not nearly as interesting as the season premiere of Season 5, which you should totally watch right now-- unless you're a temp currently on assignment, in which case: finish your work, turn in your time sheet, get your supervisor's signature and watch The Temp Life only when you're sure no one has any other work to dump on you assign you. Trust us.
Illeana Douglas dropped by The Adam Carolla Show to give us an update on everything going on in her world including her cameo on the season finale of Entourage, this Sunday (9/12) at 10pm on HBO.
Listen to Illeana's entire interview with Adam here.
And while you're at it, get ready for SEASON THREE of Easy to Assemble by watching
Flying Solo.
My Damn Channel is featured in a page one story in the Business section of The New York Times by Brian Stelter.
The full press release details breaking news about our business here.
8.9.10 is a good day.
We simply, briefly want to THANK YOU for supporting our team and our artists and business partners building a new way to deliver original entertainment. We're humbled and on fire with new energy. THANKS!