After Nine series

After Nine is a Canadian amateur web series set in the fictional city of Albion. Created and produced by Bill Conrad, the series airs an episode once a month from its website and official Facebook page. The series began airing on September 18 2009 and has produced 3 episodes to date with a planned two more for season 1.
After Nine focuses on the day life of various people working in the night time entertainment industry. Showing it's viewers how one company, After Nine Entertainment, uses manipulation and violence to secure paying gigs in Albion City, as they out the competing companies.
Premise
After Nine mainly Chronicles William Lambert's rise to power in the fictional Albion City's night time entertainment industry. Mr. Lambert owns After Nine Entertainment, a company specializing in disc Jockey services, musicians, and Karaoke shows. The show focuses on William's ability to gain more and more shows and at the same time, putting out of business any and all of his competitors. He does this using both manipulation and violence, usually performed by his right hand man Markus Brady. The two main opposing forces are LeBrock Entertainment, run by Victor Lebrock, and an individual DJ named Andrew Black, who at one time worked for Mr. Lambert. Both Andrew Black and Victor LeBrock become aware of Mr. Lambert's tactics and begin to use his own strategies against him. The show also features how the local Police force is dealing with the rising territorial style of violence associated in the Entertainment industry.
History
The After Nine Series was created by Bill Conrad in Sept 2009. After the first episode and basic season plot were written, Steve Kasan was brought into the project to help with the writing. Bill Conrad also serves as the show's main cinematographer and editor.
The Bet. According to the web site the After Nine concept was brought about on a bet. The bet was that someone with no script writing, camera or editing experience could produce a decent show before five episodes were finished. The idea was to do this also with no budget and a low end camera. Also according to the web site the show is filmed with a $200.00 camcorder and no other equipment except a computer and some imagination.
Since Sept 18th the show has gathered a small following that increases every episode. The official Facebook page has over 1300 fans and there are now unofficial After Nine pages popping up on the internet. and a 24/7 broadcast station with After Nine in the lineup. According to the official After Nine blog the show has over 17000 views in its three months of existence.
The show tracks it's viewership through BLIP TV,[] which it mainly broadcasts on and links to. According to the web page paid advertisement's will be popping up as commercials starting in Episode 4, due for release the end of January 2010. Mainly for local business in and around the Toronto/Durham region where the show is filmed. The show also broadcasts advertisement's before and during each episode. These are put on by BLIP TV.
Initially the show was contained a planned five episodes, wrapping up the serial style plot line by Episode 5. According to the web sites talks and a main story arc is being planned for a second season if the fan base keeps going up. The shows first season should conclude around March of 2010.
The show has/is constantly going through cast changes but the main characters have remained.
Broadcast history
The show originally aired on Sept 18th 2009 on You Tube. The show was removed a few days later, edited and began broadcasting on Sept 24th on BLIP TV. The video links on both the Facebook pages and the series website all linked to the BLIP TV video. Episode 2 aired five weeks later after a short delay and episode 3 aired December 22nd. Episode 4 is set for release early March 2010.. You can now find it on the IOBN channel broadcasting with other indie productions.
Reception
The original edit of Episode 1 was short lived with the only Fans being friends of the shows creators. After it's re edit and re release to BLIP TV a small base of fans began to emerge. The main complaint was the over all quality of the project and that it was too hard to follow the characters since nobody really knew who was who. The small group of people who watched the show forgave these issues however since they knew this was a completely amateur and first time project. After the release of Episode 2 which was superior in almost every way the fan base began to spread fast. By the second week of December the Facebook fan page had hit over 700 fans, a jump of more than 500 people since the release of episode 1. Episode 3 was released on December 22nd and has since jumped past the 1000 fan mark. According to the blog the cast and crew attribute this to a good idea for a story and simply to getting better at their craft. The show still suffers from some image quality issues attributed to the limits of their equipment. The main issue of the show is the audio quality which is said to be addressed by episode 4 when the crew gets an external microphone.
Cast and characters
The show premiered September 18, 2009 and the first episode originally starred Mark Harnum as Markus Brady, After Nine Entertainment's main enforcer and personal body guard to William Lambert. Patrick Crawford as Andrew Black, an independent disc jockey who at one time worked for After Nine Entertainment. Bill Conrad as William Lambert, owner and operator of After Nine Entertainment. His scheming is the focus of the show. Lorien Honoure as Chris Metrophy, a disc jockey new to Albion City looking for some work. Lady Lara as Holly Pherson, a friend of Markus and bartender in Albion City. Mat Jedd as Detective Jeffrey Barbour and Ida Jagaric as Detective Laresse, these two characters spot the problems with the entertainment industry in Albion and find William Lambert a perfect suspect. Deon Foster as Victor LeBrock, owner of Lebrock Entertainment. Will Lambert's arch enemy. Amanda Holburn as Victoria (No last name found) is friends with an up and coming DJ new to After Nine and Dave Pope plays DJ Tait. A DJ currently working for After Nine Entertainment, but accused of selling drugs as he spins.
Seasons
After Nine is still in season 1 currently filming episode 4 of 5.
Episodes
After Nine is still filming it's first season; each episode runs 10 - 14 minutes excluding commercials. There have been 3 episodes so far with a planned 2 more to finish season 1.

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