Tom Hanks Web series to stream on Yahoo

NEW YORK (AP)

Tom Hanks

' prolonged gestating Web array is entrance to

Yahoo

.

"

Electric City

," an charcterised unconventional array Hanks has been building for years, will premiere on Yahoo this spring. The array includes 20 episodes, any three- or four-minutes long.

Yahoo, along with Hanks and prolongation partners Playtone and

Reliance Entertainment

, are set to rigourously announce skeleton for a array Tuesday during a International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

For Hanks, a recover of "Electric City" caps a actor's efforts to find a right entrance for a project. He initial attempted to make a array regulating puppets. He progressing announced it would be expelled in early 2011.

The array is set in a cl early pacific city situated in a post-apocalyptic world. Many of a themes are socially unwavering topics applicable to today, including appetite consumption.

"It was always a vigilant to have this plan live and breathe online, and we felt Yahoo would be a ideal home," pronounced Gary Goetzman, co-founder of Playtone, Hanks' prolongation company.

For Yahoo, "Electric City" is a initial entrance into scripted strange programming. Yahoo has been beefing adult a online video with existence array and wrap-up news shows, many of that arrange among a most-viewed array online.

"Electric City" will be distributed online and by inscription inclination with a common interactivity and amicable media connections, though also a few new features. Most notably, it will be accessible in several languages, including Spanish and French. Along with producing, Hanks will voice a character.

"On a surface, a Electric City is paradise and underneath a surface, Electric City is secrets and clumsy state control," says Erin McPherson, clamp boss and conduct of strange programming during Yahoo. "What we found unequivocally constrained is that this is ideal for a rarely digital audience, a lean-forward assembly who likes to implement a middle of a Internet."

In October, Yahoo launched a line-up of programming targeted during women. It's formulation another collection of programming for Feb that will concentration on comedy, including partnerships with Bill Maher and a Funny or Die website.

"Electric City" is expected to augur serve scripted ventures for Yahoo.

"There are a series of other opportunities we're looking at, and we consider we're singly staid to build these arrange of tent-pole eventuality programs," says McPherson. "I would design that you'll see us doing some-more of it."

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