I’ve never caught an episode of the apparently popular web show (is that a term now…?) We Need Girlfriends, but I do love the idea of an anti-Entourage that features nerds kvetching. Good for these guys.
The 11 brief episodes (the shortest is under six minutes; the longest is more than 14) have been viewed millions of times on YouTube, MySpace and WeNeedGirlfriends.tv, where they were posted monthly at midnight. As one fan wrote on the show’s MySpace page: “I watched it religiously waiting for every new episode coming out like a fat guy waiting for his MoonPie to cook in the microwave.�
Like other buzz-generating Web content, the series has attracted mainstream media movers and shakers: Greg Daniels, the executive producer of the American version of “The Office,� and Dennis Erdman, a director and producer who worked on television shows the three grew up with like “Saved by the Bell�, both sent e-mail messages to say they were fans. A pilot for CBS, with Darren Star of “Sex and the City� fame as executive producer and Mr. Erdman and Clark Peterson of “Monster� as co-executive producers, is in the works.
