At Garage TV we aim to offer DIY shows from talented comedy producers of all levels of success, but we won't put up just anything. Like Hulu or Netflix we put up shows we like and that we think our audience will enjoy, but unlike those Big Streamers our submission process is wide open! To find out more or to submit your show you can email [email protected].
To be clear, we are taking submissions of finished shows, or shows you are planning to make yourself. We are not going to finance your series or podcast, but if we like it we will host it and stream it, and you'll get a percentage of subscription earnings. GarageTV is a tool that you can use to get eyes on your work and earn some dough. You retain ownership and you can actively shop your work to bigger streamers, for instance if you sell your GarageTV hosted show to Disney, no prob, you can remove or disable your content on GarageTV with a click of a button, and send it to Disney, no hard feelings.
I'll start with what we are NOT looking for: - Your improv or sketch show filmed with one camera from the back of the theater. - Your reel or a series of raw unedited tiktoks - Twitch stream of you playing a video game - A series of inside jokes about your local theater's management team - A static 5-panel layout of 5 people doing improv on zoom - Content deemed politically regressive in terms of attacking or scapegoating marginalized groups with cruel intention
Here are some things we ARE looking for: - Polished, edited comedy shows with tight writing, solid improv or compelling conversation. - Funny Podcasts in both audio and video form. If you have a compelling podcast we can host the audio, plus you can record video with a few cameras and add some bumpers and release the live video companion series too. - Sketch comedy shows that are shot on video and edited with titles for TV. If you think you're show looks good enough to be on Hulu or Netflix, or at least Amazon Video, we want to see it! - Improv shows with a good hook. Animated or multi-media improv. Prop Improv. Puppet improv. Just not boring improv. - Game shows and competition shows with comedy hosts and compelling editing. - Talent shows, topical shows, comedy magic shows - An Animated series of any kind - Progressive political talk shows - A sit-com or single-cam written series - A show that showcases failed pilots or rejected content - Companion shows and Re-watches. Do you have a favorite series and want to do an episode by episode re-watch series, or maybe you actually have a show on Hulu, you can use GarageTV to host companion videos and edited behind the scenes content.
You can also release: - Your filmed pilot that never got picked up. If you still own it and we green light it, you can release it as a one-episode series. - Your finished indie film. Do you have a finished film that you're shopping to big streamers or a film that didn't sell but you want to self-release? You can host it on GarageTV and show the big streamers what it looks like streamed from an app to the home screen. It could lend your film some streaming cred and work as a stepping stone
More Details: - We stream audio shows (Podcasts) and video shows (Series). You can't post audio on a video series, but you can create a podcast to release audio and an associated series to release video. Or if you have a current audio podcast on another host, you can keep that where it is and and still create a video version of it for GarageTV. - Episodes of your show can be any length. A show could be a series of 5 minute episodes, or a show could be 1 hour long episode, or it could have 50 episodes ranging from 3 to 40 minutes. - Episodes can drop any time you want. There are no rules or deadlines for your release schedule. If you want to spend three months perfecting each episode, that fine, or you can release an episode a day, or each thursday at noon. It's up to you. - You can make episodes of your show "Subscriber Only" which can compel people to subscribe to watch, which helps you earn streaming proceeds. An entire Series might be Subscriber Only, or you might choose to drop new episodes as Subscriber Only and then release them publicly two weeks later, for example. - You can port your current podcast to garagetv and save money. If we green light your podcast and you have all the released mp3s on another podcast host, we can port them over to GarageTV hosting for free. GarageTV may not contain all the features that your current host provides, but again it would be free so... - If you already release your show on Patreon or YouTube you can still host your episodes on GarageTV, and you might ever earn more money from your current fanbase by bringing them over. The idea of GarageTV is you get a bigger percentage of the subscriber proceeds than YouTube and you get an app specifically designed to stream comedy shows unlike either Patreon or YouTube..
