Seeking Simone

Simone's Renée Olbert Nominated for Indie Intertube Awards! Wooo!

As if the Oscars weren't glamour enough this weekend!

We at Team Simone were thrilled when we got the word that Simone herself, the lovely Renée Olbert, was nominated for not one, but TWO Indie Intertube Awards! Wooo! Break out the party hats and also, the vodka!

Renée was nominated for Best Actress in a Comedy for Seeking Simone (alongside such other comedic geniuses as - gasp! swoon! - Emma Caulfield from the hilarious Bandwagon).

AND she was also nominated for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama for Good People in Love. Kudos, Renée!! Such a talented young lady.

The Indie Intertube Awards nominations are chock full of webseries goodness (including several nods to one of our fellow Canadian LGBT webseries, the awesome Out With Dad) - and there are many amazing shows for you to check out.

To find out more about the awards (live! March 11th), visit the Indie Intertube site. And many thanks for the love, Indie Intertube!! And Simone was worried she'd never find love online...

 

 

Simone's Friday Poll: Are you all excited for the Oscars?

Here at Team Simone, we are a little divided about awards shows. Some of us LIVE FOR THEM - and some of us...do not.

Anyway, the half of Team Simone who loves awards shows just reminded the other half of Team Simone that the Oscars are on this very weekend! Which prompts us to ask you folks - are you all excited for the Oscars?

Ep 2.5 Behind the Scenes Photos

CLIFFHANGER! HAHAHAAA!

Oh, Episode 2.5. I believe that the date with Leslie was only our second day of shooting but everyone got into the swing of things pretty fast. HUGE thanks to the wonderful folks at Fire on the East Side who let us film in their beautiful upstairs space.

An actor prepares...to tweet sadly about Buffy. A lot of comedy GOLD resulted from Simone's sad-tweeting shoot but we ended up only being able to use a fraction of it, mainly because we didn't want Sarah McLachlan or Joss Whedon to sue us. 

We tried to get David Bronfman to take his shirt off but couldn't get him drunk enough. That's what happens on these low-budget pictures.

Danny, Naomi and Jennifer set the scene for Simone's hot date.

Finger guns!! We had SEVEN extras on this shoot - lucky number seven. And they were all brilliant!

Chillin' at the bar, pretending to be cruising.

It can be boring on set, so Erin was smart to bring her knitting. Not just a pretty face!

Queeries Mag editor, the always dapper Suzy Malik - check out Amee King's MUCH NICER photos of this shoot over on Queeries Mag.

Gamer nerdz - on Mac AND PC! That's love.

Taking a little direction.

Something that ended up on the cutting room floor is that at the end of the episode, as Simone and Leslie leave the restaurant, they run into "Liesl", an old friend of Leslie's. Leslie and Liesl start speaking German to each other (because Jennifer Morrison, our continuity queen, and Mike McPhaden, actor extraordinaire, both speak German). It looks like they're hitting it off and maybe Leslie's found love after all! And THEN Simone spots her MYSTERY GAL and walks away from the chattering Germans. SCENE.

Check out the rest of the photos on our Flickr page or on Facebook.

Simone's Friday Poll: Your Ideal First Date

Simone's been on a few first dates now, but not one of them has been...shall we say..."ideal". Although a few of them did work out quite nicely. Quite, quite nicely.

Over to you guys - what's your ideal first date? If you don't see it here, leave it in the comments. We "promise" we won't steal it for a future episode. "Promise".

 

Ep 2. 5 in French!

The terrific Gaëlle Carrion and team at French lesbian site Univers-L have done it again. You can now tell your friends that if "they made the pick, they can deal with the dick" - in French!!

Ep 2.5 with French subtitles

Mille fois merci to Univers-L for the French subtitles - you gals help us keep it classy.

 

Simone's Friday Poll: What are you doing for Valentine's Day?

Back when they were both single, Simone and Audrey used to have a "bitter roommate" Valentine's Day tradition where they would crank call former girlfriends, drink a lot of gin and tonics and then cry a little while watching Buffy Season 5, Episode 6: "Family".

Then Audrey met Andrea. And Simone was alooooooooooooooooone. So alone. She's still a little bitter about that.

What are your plans for Valentine's Day? 

 

Simone's Friday Poll: Who did Simone run into at the end of Ep 2.5??

We here at Team Simone *think* we know who Simone sees on the street after her date with Leslie - but DO YOU KNOW?? If you haven't seen Ep 2.5: Leslie yet, go check it out - and then come back and take the poll.

 

FoQus with...Renée Olbert! Plus, Bonus Interview with Sara Gilchrist (Sylvia Grihm)

GTA dwellers! Tonight on Rogers Cable 10 & 63 will be HOTNESS.

While RogersTV FoQus with Deb Pearce host Deb Pearce is off saving the world, one diaper at a time, our own Renée Olbert is guest-hosting the show tonight! She is so multi-talented.

Another delightful tidbit on the show tonight will be Liz Stembridge (who plays Audrey's wife Andrea) interviewing Sara Gilchrist (who plays Sylvia Grihm and who is also, amazingly, the fabulous editor of our last four episodes! She, too, is extremely multi-talented) about how awesome she is and her role in Seeking Simone.

Tune in tonight at 10:30 p.m. - and if, like me, you're not in the GTA, we'll try and find some way to bring you the interview online. TECHNOLOGY FTW!

 

Ep 2.5, now with Spanish and Portuguese subtitles!

As usual, our subtitleists extraordinaire have been at it again - we are now offering Ep 2.5: Leslie with delicious Spanish and Portuguese subtitles! Now, when you're playing World of Warcraft with your nerd lover, you can ask them about their centaur intentions in three languages. Huzzah!

Ep 2.5 with Spanish subtitles

Ep 2.5 with Portuguese subtitles

To learn keen words and phrases in either of these languages, just click the little "cc" symbol on the bottom right of the YouTube player and voila! Technology!

Muchas gracias to super lovely Paola (a.k.a. Rogue) of Spanish lesbian site Lesbicanarias and the always marvellous Lorena from Portuguese lesbian site Lesbiscoito for so generously donating their mad subtitle skillz to help us share Simone with a wider audience. Ladies - you are fantastic.

 

1000 Fans = Ep 2.5: Leslie

Wow. It took us 3 years to get 948 fans and just a few hours to get the final 52 we need for that delightful, round 1000. YOU ARE THE MOST AWESOME PEOPLE EVER!! Look!

Thank you all so much for making our 1000 fan dream come true. And now...as promised...here is our final Season 2 Episode. It is called Leslie. Enjoy!