Lisa Kudrow Talks About Moving 'Web Therapy' to TV (VIDEO)
by Nick Zaino, posted Jul 20th 2011 2:30PM
Adapting a Web series for TV comes with its own unique set of advantages and drawbacks. Lisa Kudrow is familiar with the process, having just moved her 'Web Therapy' show from the Internet to Showtime, adapting it from short segments to a 30-minute weekly format. It was surprisingly easy, she said Wednesday on 'Access Hollywood Live' (weekdays, syndicated on NBC)."We always had some kind of narrative going that, I think when you just watch one Webisode online, you miss that," said Kudrow. "And that's fine, because they were built to stand alone. But when you can put them together in a half-hour form, you can see the narrative more, and it actually works as a half-hour TV show. We were so thrilled."
One of the benefits of 'Web Therapy's' format is that it has very low production costs, which has helped Kudrow and her team land guest stars willing to get treatment from Kudrow's therapist character. "It takes a weekend to shoot," she said. "And any guest star is only there for half a day, so why not do it, anybody?" Plus, it's improvised around an outline, so there are no lines to learn.
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