60Frames pulls the trigger on new Web comedies

2008 marks the start of the race to produce the first successful lineup of Web TV shows, and the first horse is out of the gates....

60Frames, the Web production studio offshoot of United Talent Agency, has released its first slate of seven original online series.  Six of the shows are comedies, and in the best Web-comedy tradition, they run the wackiness gamut from somewhat to the extreme other end. 

Among the headliners is "Erik the Librarian," a creation of Brent Forrester of "The Office."  The shortish first episode has the protagonist lost in dweeby musings when along comes a fair damsel ("Office" star Mindy Kaling) to ask him a reference question, and to rock his world.

G.I.L.F (the 'G' is for Grandmother, the 'F' is for Fun!) is good giggle-inducing lunch fodder.  It follows 37-year-old "Joyce" (creatrix-star Wendi McLendon-Covey of "Reno 911") as she takes her new 'hood by storm.  In the first episode, the infant-toting Joyce hosts a neighborly book club ("So, who's read one?") and flirts a free pizza off the delivery boy, all as her grungy post-teenage son-in-law and already-preggers-again daughter look on. 

You can also check out:

--The raunchy air-travel comedy "Cockpit," a sort of a latter-day "Airplane!"

--The self-consciously stereotype-happy "Black Version," which offers an 'urban' spin on entertainment classics, starting with "Silence of the Lambs."  (In episode one, Hannibal Lecter uses his extraordinary deductive power to guess that Clarice ate lunch at KFC.)

--The reality show sender-upper "PhakeTV."

--Another reality show sender-upper about guys from New Jersey trying to find summertime love. Sorry, I can't link because the name has a distasteful word in it.  Distasteful!

--And "WhoWhatWear," which tracks celebrity fashion trends and offers sartorial tips to ladygirls on the go.

--David Sarno