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Web comedy Toyboize is set for its small screen debut, as it heads to TV channel Dave. Produced by Talkback Thames and Navelgazing, the genius premise of the show is the 20-year reunion of a former 80s child boyband, who are determined to break back into the charts. Sort of Cruise of the Gods for the MySpace generation.

Dave will be making a big deal of the five-minute episodes, screening them alongside boyband-related specials of Never Mind the Buzzcocks. Or you can watch it right now, on their own YouTube channel.

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Comedy writer Dean Cavanagh, is going back to his roots as a club promoter, writing a new made-for-online comedy series called Svengali. The premise, as hinted at by the pilot, currently viewable on YouTube, seems to be Welsh-failed-music-promoter moves to London, and sneaks into the big leagues through a (cheating) quirk of fate. They're promising cameos by music-industry insiders, and the pilot is watchable enough.

Though, guys, if you (as I presume you did) uploaded the pilot to YouTube yourself, please learn how to encode in 16:9, rather than 4:3 anamorphic, so we don't have to watch the whole series stretched. I'm sure your fellow YouTubers will be happy to help you out if you're stuck!

The creators are currently looking for funding - and a music label might be the obvious source - so they can turn this into a full series. As you can probably tell, I'm a big believer in the online-fiction-future, so here's hoping someone will have the guts to take a punt on this.