Do you guys watch any shows that are only broadcast on the web? I actually do not enjoy watching tv over the web so I rarely do it.

 When I think about Web series, I tend to think: Well, I can go to Hulu.com and watch “Lou Grant” free. Why would I watch “Ask a Ninja” or “Hardly Working”?

 

That’s grossly unfair and reflects, unflatteringly, my age and generally mainstream taste. It’s also true. If someone were making “Seinfeld” right now and putting it online a week at a time, I’d be there. (If I somehow stumbled onto its existence.)

 

But as my colleague Virginia Heffernan pointed out in The New York Times Magazine on Aug. 24, serialized Web shows are popping up faster than ever, partly as a result of the recent writers’ strike. (She has posted a handy list of current series at her blog, themedium.blogs.nytimes.com.) And the television industry, hedging its bets, is heavily involved in the format, even if the most notable results so far — remember “quarterlife”? — won’t remind anyone of “Seinfeld” or “Lou Grant.”

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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/02/arts/television/02seri.html