Low-Budget Shows Leap From Web to TV to Attract Big Money
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Back in 2010, when YouTube was big on pugs performing tricks and Netflix hadn’t won awards for “House of Cards,” Hollywood actress Julia Stiles signed on to “Blue,” a Web series in which she plays a single mom who works at a desk by day and between the sheets at night.
“I felt why not, we wouldn’t have a network afraid of our ratings,” Stiles, a veteran of blockbuster films and Showtime’s “Dexter,” said in an interview in London last week. “Back then, I wasn’t sure what to make of the Internet as a platform.”