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| image        = SamHas7Friends.png
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| caption      = SamHas7Friends logo
| runtime      = 90 seconds
| creator      = [[Douglas Cheney]]<br />[[Chris Hampel]]<br>[[Chris McCaleb]]<br> [[Ryan Wise]]<br />[[Marqus Blakely]]
| producer     = Marqus Blakely
| director     = [[Douglas Cheney]]<br />[[Chris Hampel]]<br>[[Chris McCaleb]]<br> [[Ryan Wise]]
| starring     = Stephanie Marquis
| country      = United States
| related      = [[Prom Queen (internet series)|Prom Queen]]
| network      = [[YouTube]]<br />[[Revver]]<br />[[iTunes]]
| first_aired  = ((start date|2006|8|28))
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'''''Sam Has 7 Friends''''' is a 2006 series drama created, produced, and funded by the production company [[Big Fantastic]] and subsequently bought and distributed by the studio [[Vuguru]].  The series appeared on [[YouTube]], [[Revver]], [[iTunes]] and its own web site.  The show revolved around its tagline, "Samantha Breslow has seven friends.  On December 15, 2006, one of them will kill her," with each episode bringing Sam one day closer to her death.

== History ==
The series was created as an experiment by a group of young [[Los Angeles]]-based filmmakers – Douglas Cheney, Chris Hampel, Chris McCaleb, Ryan Wise, and producer Marqus Blakely – in their spare time.  The project was on a budget of $50,000.<ref name="YourLA">((Cite web| url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BJDsc1XOI4 | title = "Sam Has 7 Friends" yourLA Feature Interview | work = yourLA on [[KNBC]] | date = 2006-11-03 | accessdate = 2007-04-30 ))</ref>  Chris Hampel and Chris McCaleb were also working on [[Michael Mann (director)|Michael Mann]]'s film ''[[Miami Vice (film)|Miami Vice]]'', Hampel as Mann's assistant, McCaleb as an assistant editor.

The group formed a production company called [[Big Fantastic]] and set about creating a series of [[webisode]]s.  The producers believed there was an untapped market for people with short attention spans, or office workers with only sporadic free time, who would watch a short-form scripted, serialized drama.<ref>((Cite news | url = http://www.miamiherald.com/277/story/83355.html | title = Webisode: Think 60 seconds, not 60 minutes | author = Glenn Garvin | work = [[The Miami Herald]] | date = 2007-04-23 | accessdate = 2007-04-30 |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20070429235742/http://www.miamiherald.com/277/story/83355.html <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archivedate = 2007-04-29))</ref> The series was distributed for free on [[YouTube]], [[Revver]], [[iTunes]] and its own site, samhas7friends.com.  The series was produced with no business model, and only minimal support from advertising via post-roll Revver ads. Since the demise of Revver, all episodes and related content was moved over to [[blip.tv|Blip.TV]] which provided revenue to the producers by pre-roll ads until its demise in 2015.

== Story ==

''Sam Has 7 Friends'' is variously described as a [[soap opera]] or [[murder mystery]].  The story follows an attractive cast of young actors around LA with the knowledge, throughout the series, that one of them is going to kill Samantha Breslow, an aspiring actress.<ref name="Fool">((Cite web| url = http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2006/10/31/clip-culture-gets-clipped.aspx | title = Clip Culture Gets Clipped | author = Rick Aristotle Munarriz | date = 2006-10-31 | accessdate = 2007-04-30 | work = [[The Motley Fool]]))</ref>

The seven "friends" that appear in the series opening credits are Sam's boyfriend Patrick, her ex-boyfriend Willie, her best friend Dani, Dani's boyfriend Chivo, her neighbor Scott, Patrick's other girlfriend Vera, and Sam's agent Roman.

The characters get in various fights with each other over the course of the 80 episodes.  With webisodes of only 90 seconds a piece, each episode focused on the most interesting minute and a half of the characters' days.<ref name="YourLA" />

Throughout the series, Sam has a bad run of luck, going through two break-ups, struggling to find acting work and getting in fights with her best friend, her agent and her sister.  After attempting various reconciliations, she decides she has had her fill of LA

On the December 15, 2006 episode Sam is murdered while preparing to move out of her apartment and leave L.A. forever.  The murderer cannot be seen in this final episode, leaving the mystery up in the air.  According to the last episode posted on YouTube on June 29, 2009, the answer would be revealed in ''Prom Queen: The Homecoming''.

== Reception ==
Critics had mixed reactions ''to Sam Has 7 Friends''.  [[Virginia Heffernan]] of the ''[[New York Times]]'' described the series as "respectably viral."<ref name="NYTimes">((Cite news| url = http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F30B11FE3A5B0C758DDDAD0894DF404482 | title = Who Is the Player King Behind 'Prom Queen'? | author = Virginia Heffernan | work = [[The New York Times]] | date = 2007-04-16 | accessdate = 2007-04-30 ))</ref>  Television critic Andrew Wallenstein was perplexed by the series, and suggested that "maybe drama remains the domain of traditional mediums."<ref name="NPR">((Cite news | url = https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6619297 | title =  Online TV Series Has Drama, Lacks Staying Power | author = Andrew Wallenstein | work = [[NPR]]'s [[Day to Day]] | date = 2006-12-13 | accessdate = 2007-04-30))</ref>

The series received small audiences of several thousand viewers at YouTube, Revver and its own site.  At iTunes the show was more popular, receiving more than 10,000 downloads a day through the show's run.<ref name="Fool2">((Cite web| url = http://www.fool.com/investing/value/2006/11/07/can-youtube-me-now.aspx | title = Can YouTube Me Now? | author = Rick Aristotle Munarriz | date = 2006-11-07 | accessdate = 2007-04-30 | work = [[The Motley Fool]]))</ref>

== After Sam's Death ==

While the show attracted 3 million views during its initial run, ''Sam Has 7 Friends'' caught the eye of the [[United Talent Agency]], one of the "Big 5" Hollywood talent agencies, which operates a unit to scout for online talent.<ref name="LATimes">((Cite news| url = https://articles.latimes.com/2007/jan/23/entertainment/et-goldstein23/2 | title = Hollywood is seeing fans pull a power play | author = Patrick Goldstein | date = 2007-01-23 | accessdate = 2007-04-30 | work = [[Los Angeles Times]] ))</ref>

After shopping the series around, United Talent Agency and Big Fantastic caught the eye of [[Michael Eisner]], the former CEO of [[Walt Disney]] who was creating a studio to produce content for the internet.  Eisner acquired the rights for Season 1 of ''Sam Has 7 Friends'' as well as an option to produce any future seasons.  Through his new production company, [[Vuguru]], Eisner funded the production of Big Fantastic's second series, [[Prom Queen (internet series)|''Prom Queen'']].<ref name="Variety">((Cite news| url = https://www.variety.com/article/VR1117960952.html?categoryid=1236&cs=1 | title = Eisner unveils Web studio | author = Dade Hayes | work = [[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] | date = 2007-03-12))</ref>  That series debuted on MySpace on April 1, 2007.

In October 2012, both "Sam Has 7 Friends" and "Prom Queen" were relaunched on [[The CW Television Network|The CW]]'s website.<ref name="Zimbio">((Cite news| url = http://www.zimbio.com/TV+News/articles/5OeWZrZrGJL/Popular+Web+Series+Prom+Queen+Sam+7+Friends | title = Popular Web Series 'Prom Queen' and 'Sam Has 7 Friends' Hit the CW Website | author = Jill Slattery | work = [[Zimbio]] | date = 2012-10-15))</ref>

== References ==
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==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070402005424/http://www.samhas7friends.com/ samhas7friends.com] &mdash; Official site

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