AOL Expat Backs New Website Asking Public for TV Ideas

Associated Press: The new website I’d Watch That, which launched five months ago with heavyweight financial backers, invites aspiring TV makers to post a brief reel that demonstrates an idea’s potential to become a series. The investors include William Randolph Hearst III; former AOL chairman and CEO Barry Schuler, and John Fisher of venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson. “Crowdsourcing is part of a new generation of viewers.”