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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Harmon and Rob Schrab don't hate television. They just hate the executives who run television. And after creating what may be the most famous TV pilot that never aired--Heat Vision and Jack (1999), starring Ben Stiller, Jack Black and Owen Wilson--the impoverished writing duo took their revenge by starting an online network, channel101.com that cuts the Hollywood establishment out of the decision-making loop. The rules are simple: would-be TV producers make five-minute shows that are aired once a month at a West Hollywood bar, where a live audience votes on which ones should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comedy Forging the Future: TV Without the Networks | 4/9/2006 | See Source »

Since Harmon, 33, and Schrab, 36, don't charge for tickets or sell ads, their site is not a moneymaking venture. But now everybody in Hollywood wants them. They signed a deal with VH1. Fox has contracted them to write a movie. Their film Monster House comes out in July. And they were hired as co-creators of Sarah Silverman's upcoming show on Comedy Central, although Harmon was fired after only four episodes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comedy Forging the Future: TV Without the Networks | 4/9/2006 | See Source »

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