EXCERPT: Illeana Douglas may be quite the name in web series circles now, especially after landing six Streamy nominations for her popular comedy Easy to Assemble, which just wrapped its second season earlier this year. It even spawned a spinoff series Sparhüsen, which nabbed its own Streamy nod. But aside from those two, the Emmy-nominated TV and film actress has yet to venture into a web series where she isn’t the one calling the shots. Looks like that’s about to change.

Douglas just wrapped shooting a two-episode guest starring arc on Spherion-sponsored office comedy The Temp Life in New York this week, playing cold hearted CEO Eve Randall. Also shooting a guest spot this week is Taryn Southern who reprises her gumpy midwest IT tech Nancy Roder for a few more episodes.

The connection between Easy to Assemble isn’t hard to piece together. Temp Life creator Wilson Cleveland—who also plays the former temp agency boss Nick ‘Trouble’ Chiapetta—heads up CJP Digital Media the web arm of Manhattan-based marketing firm CJP Communications. Easy to Assemble teamed up with CJP for its latest season with Cleveland’s team helping score a suite of new distribution deals for the show including The Hotel Network and a lucrative one with My Damn Channel.

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We were BEYOND thrilled yesterday when The Temp Life received a nomination for Best Branded Entertainment Web Series in the second-annual Streamy Awards, often referred to as the Web Television equivalent of the Emmys or Oscars.  Nominees in 15 categories were selected from an initial 190,000 public submissions of over 2,000 shows from 130 countries so...you know, that's pretty awesome.

Equally exciting was seeing recent Temp Life guest stars David Nett ("Scott Richeson") get a nod for his series: Gold and "Stevie P." himself Sandeep Parikh receive a Best Actor nod for The Guild (one of our favorites) AND Best Director/Writer nods for The Legend of Neil (another huge favorite).

As always we're incredibly grateful not only to you nice people who've killed hours of temp job tedium by watching our little (Streamy-nominated) show these past four seasons, but to our killer temp agency sponsor Spherion for letting us produce a comedy series that makes fun of...temp agencies! 

There are A LOT of great nominated Web shows just waiting to be discovered during your 5-minute bathroom break or 15-minute lunch break so check them out here. So wish us luck on April 11th and we'll be sure to tell you how you can watch the ceremony which will be streamed live from L.A. 

Now get back to work.

From the Effinfunny comedy blog: Hey want to see something funny and original?  Check out our new Effinfunny featured web-series, The Temp Life.   

A show that lovingly rips on temp agencies is actually sponsored by a temp Agency.  That makes Spherion cool for having a sense of humor about themselves.  The show is riddled with appearances by familiar faces from the web such as Taryn Southern (Private High Musical, Sorority Forever) and Sandeep Parikh (The Guild, The Legend of Neil, Effinfunny creator, and guy who is writing this blog right now, maybe you've heard of him?).  Anyway, I hope you like it as much as I enjoyed being in it.  Here are my episodes: my video resume and my office bromance.  And this is Taryn's hilariously homely character(she'll be in more later).

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When it comes to TV, I have always loved a good spin-off, re-boot or crossover (so far this season, Temp Life has crossed with 2 of my favorite Web series: 'Hedge Fund and Groupthink); but my FAVORITE thing to watch was a good reunion show. A Very Brady Christmas? Sign me up! Eight is Enough? Facts of Life? Dallas? Brenda Walsh back on 90210?! Try and stop me! When the stars aligned last month and three cast members (and friends) from one of my all-time favorite Web shows: AFTER JUDGMENT, happened tone in NYC at the same time, I just had to reunite them on Temp Life!

Getting the chance to work even briefly with Taryn O'Neill, Joel Bryant and Stephanie Thorpe (and Temp Life writer/Break a Leg creator Yuri Baranovsky of course) was so very cool. Getting them to ham it up as temps who are being secretly recorded with a not-so-subtle Flip cam was a blast and a complete 180 from the 'Rapture-riffic' drama of After Judgment's post-apocalyptic L.A.  We're super-grateful they took the time to reunite on our show!

Today we released the brand-new Temp Life iPhone/iPod Touch app (App Store link)! Now you can not only catch the latest episodes, read our blog and Tweets, but we wanted to offer (especially nowadays) something even more useful. The Temp Life app includes our sponsor, Spherion's real-time Twitter stream of their available REAL temp and permanent jobs across the country (we promise you won't be working for Nick or Alina)!

An added benefit for IAWTV members is, you can use the Temp Life app as a mobile 'Streamys Screener' should you want to, of course :).

As we all work toward bringing more deserved attention to the Web TV space, creating things like mobile apps will (hopefully) improve discovery not just for Temp Life, but for the thousands of top-notch Web shows that can help any clock-watcher get through the work day!

Download the Temp Life iPhone app from the App Store: http://bit.ly/TempLifeiPhoneApp and if you like it, write a review!

Now get back to work.

-Wilson