BUSINESS BUZZ – Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlanes has a deal in the works to make a web series for Google. The series, 50 two-minute-long episodes, will run in the AdSense slot on various web sites. The mini-episodes will only play when clicked on, and Google will be charging a higher advertising rate than for the usual AdSense slots. Will the future of Google advertising be content?

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1. Google’s New Ad Strategy Hopefully Invovles Stewie!
2. They Still Know They Already Own YouTube, Right?
3. Why Would You Click if You Can Already Watch?
4. Google and Funny Guy Team Up to Make Potentially Annoying Ads

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TV BUZZ – The third season of this web series about the sex lives of young urbanites living in Chicago has been picked up by IFC. There’s sex! And full-frontal nudity! It’s pretty much hipster porn, complete with awkward fumbling and poignant pillow talks. You’ll be aroused and cringing at the same time.

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1. Fleshbot Has a Hot Photo Gallery from the Web Series, Plus an Interview with Joe Swanberg
2. “…a bedroom-centric version of The Office – except with lots of full-frontal nudity and real-looking sex”
3. IFC.com Will Launch a New Web Series Every Month
4. A Great Web Series If You Love Nipple and Make Out Shots
5. Watch a Clip
6. Young American Bodies: Watch Seasons 1 and 2
7. King of Mumblecore Makes a Hard-Core Sex Soap
8. Mumblecore - Featured on BuzzFeed
9. Watch the Third Season of Young American Bodies on IFC.com

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TV BUZZ – Actor Craig Bierko from Fox’s Unhitched has a new webseries where he interviews celebrities in a bathtub. Someone needs to make a full-length feature called Bathing John Malkovich.

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1. Video: Craig Bierko Exfoliates John Malkovich’s Tender Skin While He Interviews Him
2. Craig Bierko on Taking a Bath With John Malkovich
3. Interview: Craig Bierko comes cleans about Bathing with Bierko!
4. Bierko Spongebath Interview Show Is Off the Wall
5. Did Bierko Rip Off Nerve’s Sara B.?
6. Craig’s IMDB Page

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