ControlTV media archive

CNN Showbiz on the live, viewer-controlled series.

ESPN on what happens when you hand your daily decisions to the internet.

Entertainment Weekly on Seth Green’s interactive experiment.

The Herald on six weeks of crowd-sourced decisions.

The hometown NBC station on the premise.

An interview on living six weeks by audience vote.

A profile of the experiment and its subject.

A launch-day Q&A on the format, technology, and audience choices.

Jake Coyle’s Associated Press launch report; duplicate syndicated copies are omitted.

A launch-week television discussion of the premise and its subject.

A detailed look at audience participation, viewing, and the branded-entertainment model.

An on-site report from the ControlTV loft during the final stretch of the experiment.

A surviving Mediaweek excerpt with an early audience and traffic report.

MediaPost on the show’s sponsorship, distribution, and participation model.

Pre-cast industry context on ControlTV as an early test of branded, web-native programming.

A pre-cast announcement of the series concept.

A television-industry brief on the partners and viewer-controlled premise.

ControlTV appears among Gizmodo’s weekly web-video picks.

A launch-day item in Ellen Gray’s television column.

An educational explainer and classroom discussion prompt about the format.

Italian coverage of the interactive-reality premise before the cast announcement.

French-language commentary on Tristan, ControlTV, and its “Truman Show” premise.

Croatian coverage of ControlTV’s format and early audience response.

ControlTV received the 2011 Digital Luminary Award for Branded Entertainment Series.

The official audiovisual record of the awards program.

The UConn economics department, on a recent grad’s odd turn on camera.

Director Douglas Cheney’s production retrospective.

Background on the series, created by Seth Green and Matthew Senreich.

The series listing.