Venice: The Series
| Venice: The Series | |
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| Genre |
Soap opera Web series |
| Created by |
Crystal Chappell Kim Turrisi |
| Starring | Crystal Chappell Jessica Leccia Galen Gering Hillary B. Smith Gina Tognoni Nadia Bjorlin Leslie Kay Dot Jones Shawn Christian Molly Burnett Eric Martsolf Judi Evans Michelle N. Carter Jordan Clarke Harrison White Michael Sabatino Liz Keifer Adrienne Wilkinson Christian LeBlanc Annika Noelle Patti Pelton Aaron Hartzler Wesley Ramsey Tina Sloan |
| Country of origin | United States |
| No. of seasons | 5 |
| No. of episodes | 49 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Crystal Chappell Kim Turrisi Hope Royaltey |
| Producer(s) | Christa Morris (co-exec) Hillary B. Smith (supervising) |
| Location(s) | Venice Beach, California |
| Running time | 6-10 minutes (Season 1) approximately 15 minutes (Season 2-) |
| Production company(s) | Open Book Productions |
| Release | |
| Original network |
Venice: The Series (2009-present) YouTube (Seasons 1, 2 & 3) |
| Original release | December 4, 2009 – present |
| Chronology | |
| Related shows |
The Grove: The Series Guiding Light |
| External links | |
| Official website | |
Venice: The Series is a soap opera web series co-produced by and starring American actress Crystal Chappell, and is inspired in part by the "Otalia" storyline on the daytime drama Guiding Light. The series has been streamed on VenicetheSeries.com since December 4, 2009, and is currently in its fifth and final season.
Venice is described by Chappell as "a show about families, and life, and all the simplicity of it, and the turmoil of it. We're going to be following a character named Gina who is a designer, and she is a gay woman."
Crystal Chappell played Olivia Spencer on the long-running CBS daytime drama, Guiding Light, from 1999 until the September 18, 2009 network ending. She won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Daytime Drama for her work as Olivia in 2002 and was nominated again in the same category in 2005 and 2006. In 2007, she earned her first nomination in the Outstanding Lead Actress category and her second in 2010.
In 2009, after Guiding Light was cancelled, Chappell, with help from her writing partner and co-producer Kim Turrisi, decided to create Venice: The Series, based around the popular romance between her character, Olivia Spencer, and co-star Jessica Leccia's character, Natalia Rivera Aitoro, also known by the portmanteau "Otalia". However, for copyright reasons, the names of the two actresses' characters are changed, and there is no official connection to Guiding Light.
Although Chappell's character in the show is an openly gay woman, the show is not a "gay web series" but rather a show that "embodies all kinds of people, with all kinds of issues".
Chappell heavily publicized the series through the social networking sites Twitter and Facebook.
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