‘This is Culdesac” – that’s the name of the comedy pilot which is under development by Spokane’s Luke Barats and Joe Bereta for NBC. The Hollywood Reporter recently listed “This is Culdesac” as one of ...

Once upon a time in an analogue world long, long ago, only big shots with big budgets were making movies. Then the Internet showed up. Now dreamers with digital cameras can entertain the masses on a ...

Forget Lonelygirl15: YouTube has spawned two new stars. Joe Bereta and Luke Barats, whose YouTube “channel” is one of the viral video site’s most popular, are making the jump into television, inking ...

This article first appeared in the August/September issue of Streaming Media magazine. Click here for your free subscription. "NBC sent us an e-mail one day out of the blue saying ‘Hey, you guys want ...

The thinking, clearly, is that such a grouping of eStars would be an instant eSuccess. Barats and Bereta's YouTube page has more than 38,000 subscribers, people who care enough about them to want to ...

When it was finished, Barats and Bereta put it on their Web site (www.baratsandbereta.com) and posted it to YouTube.com, a Web site that has, in around six months, become the Web's most trafficked ...

Forget Lonelygirl15: YouTube has spawned two new stars. Joe Bereta and Luke Barats, whose YouTube “channel” is one of the viral video site’s most popular, are making the jump into television, inking ...