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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.