Seeking Simone

Season 2 Launch Date on Femslash4Fans Podcast

It's official, ladies, other ladies and gents! Last night in the middle of the Femslash4Fans podcast we announced the launch date for Season 2 and it is:

March 15!! Woooo! Fireworks .gif!!! Cheers!

I had a lovely time chatting with the knowledgeable Allaine from Femslash4Fans - we talked about the genesis of the show, got into some deep discussions about the characters and provided a few keen hints about what's coming up. Thanks for an extemporaneous evening, Allaine!

If you missed the LIVE event, no worries - you can still listen to it on the Femslash4Fans BlogTalkRadio page or download it free from iTunes.

So the countdown has officially begun - we're veeeeeeeeeery thankful for your patience and we can't wait to bust out Season 2!

Some Valentine's Day Love from Simone! And Season 2 Launch Date to be Announced This Week!

OH MY GOD, I KNOW - when is Season 2 STARTING?? Enough with the "soon" and the "we're working on it" and blah blah blah bullshit! Just put it up already! It's been OVER A YEAR!

I don't know about you guys, but few things drive me nuts more than that "coming soon" tease. We've been holding off posting here over the last few weeks because that's all we had. UNTIL NOW.

So - it's Valentine's Day and we thought you deserved a little love after our long season of neglect. In lieu of cupcakes, I offer these three items:

Femslash4Fans podcast - 8PM EST/ 5PM PST - Feb 17th: As part of their recent series on webseries, the lovely Allaine from F4F will be interviewing me (co-creator and writer Rose) on Thursday's show. We'll be chatting about online dating, webseries magic and what's coming up - and you should tune in, because we will announce the launch date of Season 2 on February 17th during the podcast. That's right! You heard it here that you'll hear it there first! 

Queeries Mag Behind-the-scenes scoop + photos: Suzy Malik, the super-awesome editor of brand new online magazine Queeries, joined us for some behind-the-scenes fun while we were shooting Season 2 (we even made her be an extra in one of Simone's date scenes - she was so dapperly dressed, we couldn't resist!)

Queeries photographer Amee King also came along to take some fantastic behind-the-scenes shots, including my Favourite. Photo. Ever. Be sure to go check 'em out for a little Season 2 preview!

No one makes a first impression like Simone.

Interview with Renée & Rose in Queeries: Us again! We had a lovely time chatting with Suzy about the experience of making the series, online dating, Kristin Chenoweth and of course, the underwear we get in the mail. 

I hope these little tidbits find you well on this day of love - cupcakes and cosmos to all of you and we'll be back with more updates ... sooner than last time!

 

Renée Olbert Interview on foQus with Deb Pearce

I know, I know...you're all wondering when Season 2 will kick off! We're busy little Beaverettes, editing the season and making sure that all of your lesbian entertainment needs are met.

In the meantime, we've managed to obtain the "In the Spotlight" interview our own Renée Olbert did with the hilarious Deb Pearce on the new Toronto-based show foQus with Deb Pearce. They talk about the show, why we created it, what's coming up in Season 2 and how (gasp!) we're lesbians!! It's true! Thanks to Deb Pearce and the fine folks at foQus for the great interview! 

Seeking Simone on foQus with Deb Pearce Tonight!

Hey Torontonians! 

The first ever episode of foQus with Deb Pearce airs tonight at 10:30 on Rogers Cable and one of the segments is an interview with our lovely show co-creator and star, Renée Olbert!

foQus with Deb Pearce is a new weekly show highlighting the issues and successes of the LGBTQ community while also focusing on organizations, events, artist and performers within Toronto.  Yay gay! That Deb Pearce is pretty hilarious and we were honoured to be featured in the inaugural episode.

To see what's coming up (and out!) on tonight's show, check out the preview.

So hey - if you're hanging out tonight, drinking to forget that last night, Toronto elected a homophobic dickbag blowhard as its mayor, tune in to Rogers for some laughs with lesbians.

See? Laughing! Oh, it will be fun.

Why is there no keyboard shorthand for catcalls? foQus host Deb Pearce, Renée and foQus producer Liz Stembridge

If, like Rose, you don't live in Toronto and don't get Rogers cable, we're HOPING that the show will be archived online once it has aired, so we can all enjoy! We'll definitely keep you posted. And if you are in Toronto, be sure and tune in!

 

Renée Olbert Takes Home Breakthrough Performance Award at the Indie Soap Awards!

It was a great night for homos at the Indie Soap Awards (our fellow lesbonic series Anyone But Me won in four categories and Venice won in two)!

But of course OUR big news is that our very own Simone star Renée Olbert won Breakthrough Performance! (She tied with Preston Davis of Buppies.) Here are their kicky acceptance speeches - so you can relive the magic:

Of course, we loved the Indie Soap Awards BEFORE Renée won - we felt that the organizers really went out of their way to showcase a cool, diverse group of nominees.

We discovered a few great shows we'd never heard of and just a huge variety of stories and experience and perspectives. And we're truly honoured to have been included in that. Thanks, Indie Soap Awards!

See the full Indie Soap Awards results (or watch the full telecast here) and congrats to all the nominees and winners!!

Simone Profiled in La Dixième Muse! Plus, Ep 5 in French! Frenchstravaganza!

Back in December, the lovely Cécile Duclos of French lesbian magazine La Dixième Muse contacted us about doing an interview for their January issue, because they were doing a piece about lesbian web series. Naturellement, we said "oui!", because we wanted to be all cool and French!

Well, NOW WE ARE. The magazine arrived this afternoon and it was quite a thrill to flip past the pages of sexy lesbian graphic artists and an interview with Leisha Hailey to find...US! Mere pages away from Leisha Hailey and cartoon boobs! Jealous??

I wish I could tell you that we answered these questions in French (because Renée and I do speak a little French) but the reality is that Cécile translated our answers into French for us so that we didn't sound like five year olds talking about our web series. Merci, Cécile!!

Now, I know you think I'm just saying this because we're in it, but La Dixième Muse is a terrific magazine - really fun and very sexy, so if you speak the French, GET ON IT. You can buy the magazine online or pick it up when you're hanging out and being cool in France.

Or, for the Simone highlights, we have copies of the French and the English version of the interview just for you. Merci beaucoup to Cécile and La Dixième Muse for featuring Seeking Simone!

In other awesome French news, the wonderful gang over at French lesbian site Univers-L have provided us with French subtitles for Episode 5! Talk about your perfect timing...

Now, if you want to sexily tell your lady friend that her hands are "so soft and smooth" in French, YOU CAN. Between the beautiful French and Carmella's winning smile, we're swooning all over again...

Episode 1.5 in French

Merci to Magali, Lindsay, Virginie and toute la gang over at Univers-L for translating Episode 5! Vous êtes merveilleux!

Not sure how to toggle between subtitles on YouTube? Check out our handy YouTube caption instructions.

Seeking Simone and Naked Girl - Together At Last

The lovely and talented Zoe Beaumont from Naked Girl in a Big Gay World is doing a series of hilarious, insightful and innuendo-laden posts called Webisodes Killed the Gay-for-Pay Star and her second post is about Seeking Simone. Naturally, we were thrilled to be included - we love naked girls!

Zoe has a lot of great things to say about lesbian representation in the media which we really identified with - particularly in the intro of her piece, when she's talking about Law & Order: SVU's delicate whiff of lesbonic action:

SVU is a good example of mainstream media recognising their gay audience without placing any real effort into maintaining or progressing it: They tease with possibility because they know our expectations are low but our hopes are high. We will tune in religiously for the merest proximity between female characters, and write them into a Shakespearian romance in our heads, without the producers of a show ever having to “compromise” their mainstream audience.

This really rang true for us - we're always a little desperate to see ourselves represented and always a little too excited when something *might* be about us. Which is one of the reasons we wanted to create Seeking Simone -so that it could for SURE be about us. Yay homos!

Zoe goes on to say many very kind things about Simone - plus, she created a very hot screenshot collage as well. Behold!

Enjoy the full article (and more lovely lady pics) over on Zoe's blog - and thanks so much to Zoe for talking us up and making us blush all dirty-like.

Oh, and be sure to check out her first piece about We Have to Stop...Now too - it's equal parts eloquent and awesome. And don't fret, Otalia fans - a post about Venice - the Series is up next, so stay tuned to Naked Girl!

Simone Makes Curve Magazine's Lesbian Web Series List

Welcome, Curve readers! We're huge fans of Curve Magazine - so when they published their list of Lesbian Web Series We Can't Get Enough Of, we were thrilled to be included! 

(If it's your first time to our site, please visit our Seeking Simone Episode List to check out the show!)

 

The article is a great survey of lesbian web series with short write-ups about each one - we're in some delightful web series company here, people. Plus, there were a couple of series even we'd never heard of and are now excited to watch!

Be sure to check out the hot online action at CurveMag.com. Thanks, Curve!

Seeking Simone's Renée Olbert on SistersTalk Radio Tonight!

Set your dials!

The lovely and talented Genia Stevens of SistersTalk Radio will be interviewing the lovely and talented Renée Olbert tonight at 6 p.m. Eastern on her podcast.

With all that loveliness and talent, who knows what they'll talk about? Politics? Q-tips? Muff jokes? ANYTHING COULD HAPPEN! Be sure to tune in.

If you don't have a chance to tune in live, don't fret - you can always download the podcast later and enjoy at your leisure. Over and over again! Or, you know, just once. Ladies' choice.

Simone Interviewed by Crazed Buffy Fan on Univers-L

As you may recall, last week French website Univers-L published an interview with Seeking Simone creators Rose and Renée. (scroll down for the English version)

But the gals at Univers-L ALSO had a very special correspondent - BuffyFan3927 - interview Simone herself! What followed...well, you'll have to read the interview in English or in French to find out.

Here's a snippet, to whet your appetite:

Are you aware that a weird photo of you having an eargasm circulating on the web??? It’s a pretty intimate thing, how do you deal with that? (any sex tape available soon? Want to do like the famous other chicks of LA?) (By the way, do you think you could sign me that photo? Just for me!! Pleaaaaaase!!!)

SIMONE :  I actually appreciate the opportunity to talk about that photo…I was young, obviously…well, younger, it was last year…and that photo is just one of many I took for an ad campaign for Q-Tips. Of course, the ads never ran because the photographer did not actually have a contract with Q-Tips – he actually conned several young women into posing with Q-Tips and then sold the photos to a fetish website. I was not paid for that job. I switched agents shortly after that incident – and that’s how I ended up getting on CSIS:ForensicSWAT! So in a way, I have that Q-Tip snapping perv to thank for my big break.

Head over Univers-L to check out the interview in English and in French. And thanks to the hilarious Magali and Gaëlle of Univers-L for hooking Simone up with her biggest fan!! Her biggest, creepiest fan.