| Genre: | Comedy |
| Creator: | Yuri Baranovsky Vlad Baranovsky |
| Director: | Yuri Baranovsky Justin Morrison |
| Starring: | Yuri Baranovsky Justin Morrison Daniel George Daniela DiIorio Alexis Boozer Drew Lanning Chad Yarish Skip Emerson Flynn Kelleher |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Num Episodes: | 17 |
| Runtime: | 7–30 minutes |
Break a Leg is an American independently-created comedy web series. The show is filmed in the handheld, one-camera style associated with mockumentaries such as The Office.[1]
Unlike many other internet web series, some episodes of Break a Leg are as long as those of television sitcoms, at around 30 minutes.[1]
The show is about a writer named David Penn, whose sitcom has been picked up for production. The viewer also learns, through the lead character's narration, that David is going to die at the end of the season. The show follows David through the process of making a show and surviving a fantastical, almost satirical Hollywood. Break a Leg takes place in San Francisco with some scenes in Los Angeles. Hollywood itself is portrayed as a kind of macabre world where unions engage in actual wars and child actors live in the sewers.
In March 2006, FX held a MySpace contest through their hit show, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, asking viewers to create their own 5-minute pilot for a TV show that had never been on air. Yuri Baranovsky was already working on a feature-length independent film titled LIFE NOIR, and he, the crew, and the actors decided to enter the competition. The Baranovskys wrote the idea in one sitting and the short "episode" was shot in one day.
The show didn't win but managed to garner a small and highly dedicated fanbase who went as far as calling and emailing FX to tell them they picked the wrong show. This prompted the Break a Leg crew to create more episodes of Break a Leg under their production company name, Late Again Films.
Season one consists of 17 episodes.