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3.5/5 Directed by Dan Beers First episode date 17 August 2010 Network NBC | 6.9/10 Genre Comedy Country of origin United States Final episode date 25 May 2012 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Written by Peter Karinen
Brian Sacca
Dan Beers Starring Peter Karinen
Brian Sacca Original language(s) English
French (Subtitled)
German (Subtitled)
Chinese (Subtitled)
Korean (Subtitled)
Spanish (Subtitled) Cast Luke Perry, Jon Heder, Donald Faison, Pauley Perrette, Kristen Schaal |
Fact Checkers Unit (FCU) was originally a short film featured in the 2008 Sundance Film Festival starring Bill Murray, and was later turned into a branded entertainment series for Samsung Mobile.
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Plot
Fact Checkers Unit is a short television series where the audience follows two overzealous fact checkers, Dylan (Brian Sacca) and Russell (Peter Karinen), who travel the world and stop at nothing to check and confirm every celebrity fact—no matter how big, how small, or how obscure. During their adventures, Dylan and Russell are each assisted by their Samsung Galaxy Note, the branded product.
Cast
The series also features a number of celebrities playing characters with the same name as themselves.
Development and release
Samsung aided in the co-development of the script in order to illustrate specific key elements of the Galaxy Note.
The FCU pilot episode was aired on August 17, 2010, and the first season was broadcast from August 17, 2010 to September 24, 2010. The second season aired from December 12, 2011 to May 25, 2012. Each episode is roughly four minutes long. FCU features celebrity guests including T-Pain, Moby, Zach Gilford, and James Franco.
FCU videos were originally available on-line and on mobile devices through MTV's international websites. Social media campaigning aided in the popularity of the show. Season 2 of FCU generated over 9 million global views within six weeks. The series has been shared through entertainment, tech, and music sites as well as publication such as Variety magazine, The New Yorker, and The Los Angeles Times.
Festivals and Awards
FCU has been shown in six different languages and has participated in film festivals such as SXSW, MIPTV, the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, the Geneva Film Festival, and the BANFF World Media Festival. In the 2011 BANFF Television Festival, FCU won the BANFF Rockie Award for "Best Branded Entertainment" for the episode, "Fear of Flying".
Season One: 2010
Season Two: 2011-2012
Unknown Season
Three-Pain (19 December 2011)