Lonelygirl15
| lonelygirl15 | |
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| Also known as | LG15 Lonely Girl |
| Genre | Video blog, drama, comedy |
| Created by | Miles Beckett Mesh Flinders Greg Goodfried Amanda Goodfried |
| Developed by | EQAL |
| Directed by | Marcello Daciano Colin Hargraves Glenn Rubenstein Amanda Goodfried Jackson Davis Kevin Schlanser Mesh Flinders Miles Beckett Yumiko Aoyagi |
| Starring |
Jessica Lee Rose Yousef Abu-Taleb Jackson Davis Becki Kregoski Alexandra Dreyfus Maxwell Glick Katherine Pawlak Bitsie Tulloch Crystal Young Melanie Merkosky Raegan Payne |
| Voices of | Kevin Schlanser |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 547 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) |
Amanda Goodfried Glenn Rubenstein Greg Goodfried Mesh Flinders Miles Beckett Yumiko Aoyagi |
| Producer(s) |
Amanda Goodfried Glenn Rubenstein Mesh Flinders Miles Beckett Yumiko Aoyagi |
| Location(s) | Marin County, California |
| Editor(s) |
Amanda Goodfried Colin Hargraves Glenn Rubenstein Ian Schwartz Kevin Schlanser Miles Beckett |
| Camera setup |
Amanda Goodfried Colin Hargraves Glenn Rubenstein Kevin Schlanser Mesh Flinders Miles Beckett Yousef Abu-Taleb |
| Running time | Varies |
| Release | |
| Original network | YouTube |
| Original release | June 16, 2006 – August 1, 2008 |
| Chronology | |
| Followed by | LG15: The Resistance |
| Related shows |
KateModern N1ckola LG15: The Last LG15: Outbreak |
| External links | |
| Website | |
lonelygirl15 is an interactive web series that ran from June 2006 to August 1, 2008. Developed under the working title The Children of Anchor Cove (by the creators of what later became EQAL), the show gained worldwide media attention when it was outed as fictional in September 2006.
lonelygirl15 focuses on the life of a teenage girl named Bree, whose YouTube username is the eponymous "lonelygirl15". However, the show did not initially reveal its fictional nature to its audience. After the fictional status of the show was revealed in September 2006, it gradually evolved into a multi-character series including both character videoblogs and action sequences, with a complex story universe involving "trait positive girls" who are sought by an evil organization called "The Order".
lonelygirl15 first came to international attention ostensibly as a "real" video blogger who had achieved massive popularity on YouTube. The show was eventually proved as a hoax by skeptical viewers who identified the actress playing Bree as 19-year-old American-New Zealand actress Jessica Rose.
The three creators of lonelygirl15 were Mesh Flinders, a screenwriter and filmmaker from Marin County, California, Miles Beckett, a surgical residency dropout turned filmmaker, and Greg Goodfried, a former attorney with Mitchell, Silberberg and Knupp, LLP.
The series began on June 16, 2006, and was slated to run through August 1, 2008. New videos appeared, eventually at a clip of four to five a week, first on YouTube and lg15.com, and later on MySpace. As of July 2008, the series had more than 110 million combined views.
lonelygirl15 has generated a number of spin-off shows. Its first, the British-based KateModern, ran from July 2007 through June 2008 on Bebo, and took place in the same fictional universe.
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