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“Next Wave” Content Producer GopherX.net goes live with its newest web series – Tights and Fights: Ashes.

Funded by the Independent Production Fund’s cutting edge Web Series Pilot Program, Tights and Fights: Ashes picks up where the YouTube hit series Tights and Fights: Captain Euchre left off – Captain Euchre has been captured! 5 new wacky characters kick off this comedy Web and Transmedia Series that gives us a hilarious peek into the day to day lives of super heroes and super villains. Using a year-long Transmedia storytelling strategy that includes social networks, 180 webisodes, live performances on Twitter, blogs, and a UGC component called Capester.com – a sort of Facebook for DIY Super Heroes – Tights and Fights: Ashes is the most Transmedia show ever.

And it all kicked off with a soft launch on October 15.

Created by Scott Albert and Christopher Guest, along with Producer Courtney Wolfson, Tights and Fights: Ashes builds on the success of previous GopherX.net series, most notably Team Leader and Tights and Fights: Captain Euchre. The show was conceived 3 years ago, after the low budget Captain Euchre series proved to be a surprise hit on YouTube. Coming up with an idea to build a new series on the foundation of the first, Scott and Christopher turned to their roots in Toronto’s vibrant underground comedy scene. They invited seven very talented sketch and improv comedians to write and play new super hero (and super villain) characters. As an epic storyline covering a year in these character’s lives slowly took shape, the big unknown was how to raise the money required to do it right?

The answer came in late June, 2010, when they got the green light from the IPF, one of only eleven web series nationwide that were accepted into the pilot program.

A few attention grabbing episodes are already online. Until fall of 2011, fans will be able to follow the misadventures and deeply troubled personalities that dress up in leotards to battle injustice with lasers and fists. Each of them is having problems brought about by the events of Tights and Fights: Captain Euchre – Major Faultline (Jeremy Knight) and Leopard Woman (Chelsea Larkin) are a husband and wife crime fighting duo who’s marriage is on the rocks. Fantabulous Gal (Melanie Hunter) decides to move up from being a personal assistant to a super hero to an actual super hero herself. The Plumber (Scott Watkins) wants to find his super powers, regain the love of his wife and son, and make Captain Euchre pay him the overtime that he’s owed. And Evil Trojan Borscht… well… don’t you think he looks a little like the “missing” Captain Euchre? (Hint – they’re both played by writer/creator Scott Albert.)

Tights and Fights: Ashes tells an epic, but still very intimate, story that engages audiences in all the social spaces they’re already in – pushing out episodes through the entire breadth of the internet. Audiences can interact with the characters the same way they do with their real friends – they can comment, message and twitter the characters and the characters will answer right back – if they’re not out fighting (or being) evil at the time.

Tights and Fights: Ashes is the 6^th series produced by GopherX.net for multiplatform distribution. Team Leader has been seen on broadcast around the world, and Tights and Fights: Captain Euchre won numerous awards on YouTube for views in the Comedy Category.

FOR MORE INFORMATION, visit:

http://www.gopherx.net

http://www.tightsandfights.com

http://www.captaineuchre.com/

http://www.youtube.com/user/TightsandFights