From: Joe Hamill <joeh@earthlink.net>
Date: 25 Nov 1995 04:58:10 GMT
Organization: Earthlink Network, Inc.
The NETwork, a company formed by veteran Hollywood TV producers
Dean Vallas and Bill D'Angelo, launched a major entertainment site on
November 20th. It is fully advertiser-supported. The URL is
<URL:http://www.thenetwork.net>
The site contains four Hollywood-produced entertainment programs, and
there are many more to come.
WHODUNIT? An interactive weekly murder mystery series. Each week a
new professionally-written multimedia murder mystery story will be
posted. The text is be heavily imbedded with stills, video clips, and
RealAudio dialog of the professional actors playing the characters.
Hard-boiled LA police Detective Miles Archer (played by J.D. Robbins)
and his partner Grace Ann Minetta (played by Cinamon Romers) track
the killers, with the help of the recently-paroled computer hacker,
Annie Crandall (played by April Dion). [The October 18th Orange
County Register page-one story about Whodunit's first shoot called
April Dion "the first sex symbol on the Internet."] After reading the
multi-media story, which will end about 80% of the way through, the
players will be able to solve the murder using the immense
forms-based, searchable database we have constructed.
THE RED HAND GANG: Children=92s' series. This wonderful serialized
story of a gang of kids who solve crimes is The NETwork's first
children=92s' show. Its multimedia presentation on the Web will
contain text, stills, RealAudio dialog and music, and video clips of
the adult and kid actors. It will also feature postable bulletin
boards, and scheduled live chat sessions with the characters, for the
kid viewers.
MURDER BOOK: Graphic, never-before-seen raw police evidence. In
cooperation with homicide detectives trying to solve real unsolved
murder cases, each week we will post the unedited contents of a real
Murder Book (the large thick binder police create that is filled with
all the evidence reports in a murder case). It includes crime scene
photos, witness statements, detective reports, lab reports, autopsy
reports, and much more. This is the real thing: And somewhere out on
the Net, someone may know something that may help bring a real killer
to justice.
CYBERDATES: It wouldn't be the Internet without some romance. But
this is the first truly FREE dating service. No credit cards, no
money, no 900 numbers. We don't need to know your first or last name,
your address, or your phone number. Cyberdates allows folks to fill
out a detailed questionnaire, send in a photo, and call in an
optional voicemail message. (OK, OK, it's not completely free. It may
cost you a 32-cent stamp if you use snail-mail, and a 17-cent regular
long distance phone call if you leave the optional voicemail message.
But, hey, that's a cheap date!) We will need your e-mail address to
make the thing work, so that all those potential dates out there who
see your picture and read your profile can e-mail you. The rest is up
to you.
<URL:http://www.thenetwork.net/>
Anyone who administers a "Cool Site" list of any kind is welcome to
make our site your "cool site of the day."
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e-mail: joeh@earthlink.net
Joe Hamill
VP Public Relations & Promotion
The NETwork
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