The Internet TV craze continued today as NBC added another announcement stating that the network will broadcast all six of their new prime-time series online one day after their TV airing. The shows will be accessible via NBC's video player, called NBC 24/7.
The announcement comes at the same time NBC unveiled their new
online TV sports channel and
online video venture dubbed nbbc.
NBC said it would air the first four episodes of its new comedies, "30 Rock," and "Twenty Good Years," and the first eight episodes of its new dramas, "Kidnapped," "Friday Night Lights," "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip," and "Heroes."
Meanwhile, ABC will be showing their seven prime time shows online. The series "Lost," "Desperate Housewives" and "Grey's Anatomy" will be shown at ABC.com the day after their broadcast airings as well as "Six Degrees," "Ugly Betty," "The Knights of Prosperity" and "The Nine."
On the CBS front, the premiere episodes of three new and returning CBS prime-time series will stream on Google Video at
http://video.google.com/cbs.html for free starting today.
The episodes being streamed include the pilot episodes of new series "Smith" and "The Class", and the premiere episode from this season's sophomore series "The New Adventures of old Christine" starring Emmy Award-winning actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus. The shows post today and will be available free of charge to viewers until September 17th. The preview of the pilot of "Smith" and the first episode of "The New Adventures of old Christine" are exclusively on Google Video. All three series are produced by Warner Bros. Television.