GoFish And Icebox To Launch Made-For-Internet Program Features New And Exclusive Episodes Of Hidden Celebrity Webcam
Popular Online Animated Series to Kick Off Video Competition Judged by Executive Producers of FOX Television's 24, The Simpsons and King of the Hill
MTV Movie Awards to Sponsor Interactive Program
SAN FRANCISCO - May 14, 2007 - GoFish Corporation (OTCBB: GOFH), the leading Internet Video Network showcasing original, Made-for-Internet ('MFI') programming, today announced the upcoming launch of its latest MFI series, Hidden Celebrity Webcam. The interactive program, sponsored by the 2007 MTV Movie Awards, will premiere on the GoFish Network May 10.
Hidden Celebrity Webcam is created by Icebox, a collaborative of some of the television industry's top writers, producers and animators developing original entertainment programming on the Web. The animated parody gives audiences a voyeur's glimpse into the most private - and unwittingly embarrassing - moments of some of Hollywood's most notorious celebrities as imagined by series creator, Nell Scovell.
New episodes will air weekly over a 13-week period, and initial episodes will feature parodies of such personalities as Britney Spears, George Bush, Brad Pitt, and Isaiah Washington, among others.
Starting June 6, the program will challenge GoFish audience members to conceive, create, and upload their own Hidden Celebrity Webcam videos. The entries will be viewed and judged by some of television's top Emmy®-winning producers, including Howard Gordon (executive producer, 24), Rob LaZebnik (co-executive producer, The Simpsons), and John Collier (co-executive producer, King of the Hill), as well as the creator of Hidden Celebrity Webcam, Nell Scovell. Scovell was most recently a writer on CBS' NCIS and creator of the popular television series Sabrina, the Teenage Witch.
Contestants will be narrowed to a list of five finalists, with the winner receiving a meeting with the Rothman Brecher talent agency to discuss talent representation. The agency represents artists affiliated with hit television series, including The Simpsons, Ugly Betty, and CSI, among others. The first prize winner also will receive an Apple MacBook Pro, while runners-up will receive Apple iPods.
"We're excited to be partnering with GoFish on the development of an interactive component to our popular animated series, Hidden Celebrity Webcam," said Icebox Co-Founder and CEO, Tal Vigderson. "This program demonstrates the potential of a creative collaborative and with the contest we can give aspiring, talented writers and artists a new forum for their artistic expression."
The 2007 MTV Movie Awards have signed on as a sponsor of Hidden Celebrity Webcam. The awards show, presented annually on MTV, showcases select feature films as well as movie parodies made up of official movie footage. The show will be broadcast live from the Gibson Theater in Universal City, California on Sunday, June 3, 2007, and actress and comedian Sarah Silverman will host.
"We've partnered with the creative talents at Icebox to develop an MFI series offering artists a unique opportunity to put their video productions in front of top television executives," said Lori Macias, vice president of GoFish's MFI division. "Hidden Celebrity Webcam is also our first MFI series with animation, and it is our goal to explore a wide variety of genres with each original program."
About GoFish Corporation
GoFish Corporation, (OTCBB: GOFH) headquartered in San Francisco, is a leading consumer online video destination that, in two years, has grown to deliver millions of videos per month to a rapidly growing audience of enthusiasts. An early entrant into the user-generated video sector and the first publicly traded company in the space, GoFish is a place on the web where millions of people come to upload, share and watch their favorite videos from around the world. For more information about the company, go to www.gofishcorp.com.
About Icebox
Icebox is an online production studio that has assembled an unparalleled lineup of writers, producers and animators to create original, animated entertainment programming. The foremost destination on the Internet for animation, Icebox is a collaborative of the television industry's top writers, producers and animators, focused on the creation of original animation series. Conceived as an online writers' haven, Icebox allows original works to be produced in quick fashion and in an atmosphere of unprecedented creative liberty. On its website, www.icebox.com, the company offers a variety of cutting-edge, unfiltered programming of a superior quality - including Hidden Celebrity Webcam - that is hip and fun, funny and cool, fresh, irreverent and utterly new.
Media Contacts for GoFish
Nils Erdmann, GoFish Corporation, 415-738-8705, nils@gofish.com
Tom Sarris, GoFish Corporation, 415-738-8705, tom@gofish.com
Investor Contacts for GoFish
Nate Wright, Market Street Partners, 415-445-3239, nate@marketstreetpartners.com
Joann Horne, Market Street Partners, 415-445-3233, joann@marketstreetpartners.com