Kara and the Chronicles of Krypton

[PJBoy]

From Superman Home Page:

She fights with the Justice League, made a splash in Smallville and now, in an effort to reward that show's fans, will star in her own series of animated mobisodes on Sprint. That Supergirl sure gets around. The effort is the second round of mobile shorts from Sprint, the CW network and its sibling Warner Bros. TV Group. The first, based on another Smallville character, Green Arrow, got the highest tune-in of all Sprint's entertainment offerings in winter 2007, the marketer said.
The CW, like many broadcasters, is pushing content onto various platforms to promote its primetime lineup and is finding mobile an increasingly attractive tactic to reach young adults. Going an extra step - creating original stories that parallel Smallville's action - could draw new as well as loyal viewers to the TV show.
"There are passionate fans who respond to content created just for them," said Alison Tarrant, the CW's svp-integrated sales and marketing. "And they respond to the ad partner who sponsors it."
Sprint is this sponsor in this case. The company underwrites the mobisodes as part of an overall deal with the network and advertises during Smallville, which kicks off the second half of its seventh season next week. Sprint also has brand integration that shows off the features and gadgetry of its cell phones, taking it beyond a traditional product placement.
For its entertainment ties, the marketer looks for shows with "a unique group of very highly engaged fans," said Alisa Smith, marketing manager at Sprint, Overland Park, Kansas. "Then we get ingrained with them over time."
Sprint wouldn't release specific figures on how many people watched last season's Smallville Legends shorts or subscribe to entertainment content, which ranges from NFL and Nascar highlights to interviews from Oprah's Big Give and episodes of Hannah Montana. But they, and their competitors, clearly believe it is the future.
Recent estimates are that as many as 10% of cell phone users are watching video. That translates to about 35 million people in the U.S. Of the few million consumers who now carry iPhones, a disproportionate number, 30.9%, are watching mobile TV or video, per M:Metrics, Seattle.
Networks are responding. Some release entire episodes, including behind-the-scenes segments, interviews and making-of specials, while others create fresh content. Fox, an early adopter, has developed original mobisodes around its successful 24, Prison Break and The Simple Life, while ABC has done so with, Lost.
Mobile carriers offer TV-related fare, news, sports, celebrity gossip and the like to their customers as extras, sometimes as an all-you-can-eat subscription, akin to cable TV. Unlimited voice, data and multimedia services cost $99 a month on Sprint, for instance.
Such fees could be a stumbling block, said Peter Kim, a senior analyst at Forrester Research, Cambridge, Mass. Kim thinks there's a disconnect between the premium subscriber and the young adult fan of mobile entertainment. "People using the data functions of their cell phones are older professionals," Kim said, referring to corporate BlackBerry users. "That could be too pricey for a teen demo." MyWaves, which licenses content and distributes it free on mobile phones, aims at the 18-34 year-old largely male demo with clips from MTV, Comedy Central and other networks. CEO Rajeev Raman said subscription fees above $5 or $10 a month deter young adults. "It's tough to get the MySpace crowd," Raman said. "It's a high bar."

http://www.supermanhomepage.com/news.php?readmore=4793

 

[The Caped Knight]

Interesting

 

[Cmill216]

If it's anything like last year's mobisodes, I'll pass like Tom Brady.

 

[PJBoy]

^lol

Same here, Oliver Queen Chronicles was really sucks!

 

[triplet]

So?

Does anyone really care that doesn't totally love Laura?

I don't love her so I won't be going out of my way to see them at all.

It'll turn into yet another pathetic addition to the DVD sets and they'll call it "extra content" and term it "exciting" on the back of the box...

Cheap Bastards.

They'll just give us these instead of real extra content.

No thanks.

 

[Prison Mike]

I don't care about this.

 

[PJBoy]

The CW's already showing a promo about it, called by "Kara: Chronicles Of Krypton".

 

[Prison Mike]

so it's of her time on krypton before the planet exploded?

 

[PJBoy]

The CW has launched a site to it.

http://www.cwtv.com/thecw/kara

We are gonna watch it through the site as well!

 

[The Caped Knight]

I hope we see Kara's Mother Allura finally . It really pissed me off we only saw Zor-EL (and not even the Good loving Father Zor-EL of the comics .) on the show .

 

[Prison Mike]

the look kind of reminds me of the movie Enchanted.

 

[PJBoy]

The animation looks dawn better than OQC.

 

[04nbod]

that is looking so good. I hope it makes its way to the DVD

 

[Superfreak]

Where does WB come up with this idiocy? One day, I hope that question will be answered.

 

[04nbod]

what makes it idiotic?
the money doesn't come from the smallville budget so all power to them.

 

[Captivated]

So?

Does anyone really care that doesn't totally love Laura?

I don't love her so I won't be going out of my way to see them at all.

It'll turn into yet another pathetic addition to the DVD sets and they'll call it "extra content" and term it "exciting" on the back of the box...

Cheap Bastards.

They'll just give us these instead of real extra content.

No thanks.

Exactly.

Although, I don't think it will be cheap to produce... and that's the BAD part. It takes away from ANYTHING else. Annoying.

I have less than ZERO interest in this.

 

[PJBoy]

It's 6 episodes, and each episode runs around 3 to 4 minutes. Will be online at CWTV.com/kara and available to the sprint mobile phones this Thursday. Maybe after Smallville. At least, it sounds good.

 

[Prison Mike]

so it's one episode every thursday?

 

[PJBoy]

Well, the promo trailer said so.

 

[PJBoy]

First two episodes is up:

http://www.cwtv.com/thecw/kara

 

[Prison Mike]

I'll wait for them to put this on the dvd

 

[PJBoy]

Just watched it, and it looks pretty dawn better than The Oliver Queen Chronicles, I'm really enjoying this.

 

[zerohour films]

Well, I have to say I have enoyed those first two episodes.
It's cool to see more of Krypton and the days leading up to it's destruction.

 

[LVforever]

I LOVED them too! I actually thought the last shot from Episode 2 was from the moment she got into her spaceship, but I was wrong. So did anyone see that Zor-El twist coming?

 

[b24]

i have a question is this connected with Smallville's storyline (kind of prequel)

or this is diffrent story all togehter and has nothing to do with Smallville