Prom Queen

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Prom Queen is the first web television series produced by former Walt Disney CEO Michael Eisner's new production company Vuguru, in collaboration with veteran web television production company Big Fantastic, the creators of Sam Has 7 Friends. The series consists of 80 episodes, each lasting 90 seconds, and is one of the best-funded entries into the realm of original programming designed exclusively for online video. The show generated revenue through sponsorships, by selling some of the clothing worn by the characters, and through advertising for Hairspray. The series premiered on April 1, 2007, on MySpace, with supplemental scenes available on MySpace as each character has a MySpace page featuring blogs, vlogs, and interactions between the characters. According to the Financial Times, it represents MySpace's boldest move into original video content. The series was also distributed on YouTube, Veoh, and on an original Prom Queen website. The first season concluded on June 20, 2007, with over 15 million views of the episodes during the original 12-week run, and it has been viewed by over 40 million people to date. A 15-episode spinoff series, Prom Queen: Summer Heat, premiered on August 27, 2007. On May 7, 2008, a Japanese remake of the series, titled Tokyo Prom Queen, began airing in a similar format.