Emmy -nominated actress, writer, and producer Illeana Douglas (To Die For, Six Feet Under), creator and star of two of the Web's most-successful original series: The IKEA-sponsored Web comedy Easy to Assemble and its musical "mockumentary" spin-off Sparhusen; will guest star in two episodes of The Temp Life, CJP Digital Media’s Streamy-nominated comedic Web series sponsored by SFN Group (formerly Spherion Corporation), about the trials and tribulations of hourly temp workers.

In episodes scheduled for  April 5^th and April 26^th,  Douglas will play "Eve Randall," a steely CEO who crosses paths with scheming former temp agency boss "Nick 'Trouble' Chiapetta" (played by Wilson Cleveland); uptight Head of Human Acquisitions, "Alina Deloris" (played by Rachel Risen); and IT temp trainee "Nancy Roder," the fan-favorite character created/played earlier this season by actress, writer, and producer Taryn Southern, best-known to Web TV audiences for her roles in Private High Musical, Sony Crackle's Woke Up Dead and TheWB.com's Sorority Forever.

Douglas recently wrapped the second season of Easy to Assemble including last month's special three-part Easy to Assemble: Flying Solo miniseries. Easy to Assemble and Sparhusen have received a combined 8.2 million organic views since October and seven nominations in the upcoming Streamy Awards.

"We're thrilled that Illeana agreed to be a part of the show," said Temp Life creator/star Wilson Cleveland, SVP and director of CJP Digital Media. "This part is a fun departure from her recent roles on Easy to Assemble and Sparhusen and I can't wait for the audience to see it."

SFN Group has sponsored The Temp Life since 2006 when longtime agency partner CJP presented the concept of creating an original online comedy series as an alternative vehicle aimed at reaching a more message-averse and Web-savvy audience.  Since its November premiere, the first 12 episodes of The Temp Life's fourth season have garnered over 2 million views across Web, video on-demand and mobile platforms. In addition, a dedicated Temp Life iPhone application released earlier this month, now allows users to watch episodes and monitor real-time Twitter feeds of available employment opportunities across SFN Group’s family of specialized professional and general staffing businesses.

"We have had incredibly talented people involved with The Temp Life this year, and we are honored to have Illeana Douglas helping us end this season on the highest of notes," said SFN Group Senior Social Media Strategist and Temp Life Producer, Melissa Waldon.          

The Temp Life can be seen online at TheTempLife.tv, YouTube, My Damn Channel, Facebook, Effinfunny.com and Daily Motion, as well as on iTunes, Roku, Boxee and Sony Bravia Internet Video Link via Blip.tv. The current season is also available on-demand in over 2 million U.S. hotel rooms via LodgeNet and as a dedicated iPhone application.  

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