Drama

The UK's Kent County Council has launched an interactive TV drama series on its broadband video service, Kent TV (note: the latter, which launched in 2007, is intended to bring public information and features about the county to the people of Kent; it is operated by Bob Geldof's media company, Ten Alps).

MySpace UK and FremantleMedia last week announced plans to offer a new, interactive broadband video drama series, called "Freak," that has been developed by FremantleMedia's new-media arm, FMX, and that is sponsored by Red Bull and by Procter & Gamble's Tampax brand. The show--which is set to launch on MySpace UK in July (international versions of the show are slated to launch some time later), and which FremantleMedia describes as an "edgy, teenage coming-of-age story"--will have its own MySpace page, where two new short-form episodes will be uploaded each week (note: eight of the show's 13 episodes will be available in HD).