20th Century Fox rolls out original online shows in Italy

FlopTV is Twentieth Century Fox’s new online television network. The site features some original comedy programming that is updated weekly. Users can also submit content.

This website is marketed in Italy, but is accessible in the United States. The site is pretty easy to navigate if you’ve ever used any video site before. Using my keen detective skills, I figured that the button marked “Flop Shows” probably led to shows by Flop. If I am reading this Babel Fish-translated page correctly, not all user-submitted content will be accepted. It will be scrutinized before being shown on FlopTV.

FlopTV video can be viewed in full screen, but there doesn’t appear to be an option to embed the video. However, there is a “Download” option below the video. It does not work right now, but it appears that FlopTV will offer Quicktime downloads, downloads for mobile devices, and Windows PDAs. Hulu doesn’t even allow downloads. Additionally, FlopTV has a mobile section that doesn’t seem quite finished.

If the online television experiment proves profitable for Fox, perhaps we’ll see some Internet originals from Fox here in the States.

Read: [Variety]
Company Site: [FlopTV.tv]