Twin Cities Locals Reanimate Sci-fi/horror Puppet Comedy Tv

PRLog (Press Release) – Jun 26, 2009 – Cult comedy classics such as SCTV and Mystery Science Theater 3000 inspired the off-beat, Twin Cities’ developed puppet sitcom Transylvania Television.  Transylvania Television targets the college- and Generation X-aged audiences, drawing from pop-culture-literate riffs of stand-up comedy, television, Web, and cinema.  

The cast and crew of Transylvania Television comprises of Twin Cities professionals, including Michael Heagle, a local filmmaker who’s been successfully producing and teaching for 10 years; Gordon Smuder, who has over 18 years experience in special effects (http://www.mnfx.com) creating illustration, special effects, and props for advertising agencies, television, and movies, and a crew with over 40 years combined experience in their fields.

The original pilot episode follows Furry Ackermonster, a yeti with an associate’s degree and a dream, as he stumbles his way through the deadliest entry-level job of his life. Traveling to a low-rent UHF station deep in the Carpathian Mountains, Furry finds Transylvania Television being run into the ground by a group of business misfits - an aged and acerbic vampire grasping to stay relevant, a beatnik bat lost in a timewarp of his own, and a hand-stitched janitor monster.  In a last-ditch effort to save his job (and his life), Furry hotwires the station’s ailing antenna to the fabled Frankenstein Device and chaos ensues. Now, with worldwide broadcast range and the unpredictable power to reanimate dead TV shows, the only thing standing between the bad guys and world domination is themselves.

Transylvania Television is gathering steam as they set to launch their second season.  The producers and puppeteers of Transylvania Television hope to expand their audience base.  Utilizing the Web and other guerilla marketing tactics, Transylvania Television has been reaching out to audiences via Youtube.com (http://www.youtube.com/tvtvonline), Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Transylvania-Television/16 ...), and Twitter (http://twitter.com/TVTV) and is creating an army of zombie minions for their cult hit.