Get ready for what could possibly be the best
children’s television program of the summer.
A new HBO show, Deadwood, which debuts at 10 a.m. EST on Monday,
will challenge 10-to14-year-old viewers to solve the mystery behind the
disappearance of teenager Jessica Fisher from the town of Deadwood, Ore.,
Reuters reports.
Over the course of its 16-week run, viewers will also learn that Jessica’s is
just the latest in a string of disappearances of teens from the town dating
back to the 1800s.
The HBO Family network will promote the show with a new trailer every week.
A Web site will also be updated weekly, allowing the kids to search for
audio and video clues and interact with each other using chatrooms and
message boards.
“Deadwood is our first Web series of this kind,” Lynne Eyberg,
producer for HBO Family, which designed the program told Reuters. “This is a
hybrid of online programming and on-air promotion. We’re using the (cable)
channel to drive traffic to the Web site.
“We created the new content with the purpose of letting kids be in control
of how the story unravels and how they participate in it,” Eyberg added.
HBO Family is a unit of HBO, which is a part of media giant AOL Time Warner
Inc.
