Pete's Basement

Pete's Basement is a weekly podcast filmed in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, featuring four guys, Pete, Ramon, Adam and Steve. They discuss comic books released every week, comic book related movies, cartoons, websites of interest, writers and artists in the comic book industry. They also travel to comic book conventions in the local New York City Metro area and interview various artists, writers and editors in the comic book industry such as Tom DeFalco, John Layman, J. Scott Campbell, and J.M. DeMatteis, to name a few. The podcast can be downloaded via iTunes or watched directly online at their website.
==Two Tanks Grew in Greenpoint==
==The launch of Pete's Basement==
Pete's Basement launched its first podcast (episode) on January 8, 2008. 
Season 1 consisted of 48 episodes, plus two Skrull episodes, totaling 50.
Season 2 consists of another 50 episodes. Their 100th episode (technically Episode 48 of Season 2) was aired on December 1, 2009.
Season 3 is currently in production. Each episode is aired on Tuesday every week. (information as of February 4, 2010)
==Episode layout==
Pete's Basement episodes are usually somewhere between 30 and 50 minutes in run-time. Most episodes consist of the panel (Usually Pete, Adam, Steve and Ramon) sitting at the "round table" discussing the current weeks release of comic books.
Some of their episodes will be "Segment" shows where the guys record their own reviews at their own leisure (usually in their own home), to be edited together into an episode. Roger usually directs while Steve usually edits. Frequently, various Post Production tasks will change hands.
==How it is filmed==
The show is filmed using one main camera that shoots the panel head on and two side cameras, which capture the angles of the panel discussions.
==About The Basement==
The show was created by Pete, Rogee, Adam Wiesen, Steve and Ramon.The Pete's Basement Crew, New York Daily News, November 1, 2009
The panel: Pete, Adam, Steve and Ramon, review comics each week with lively and sometimes unyielding banter. This podcast is not intended for young children. Each episode is prefaced with a "Viewer Discretion Advised!" card.
Guests grace the panel frequently throughout the series.
Guests have included: Peter "The Other Pete" Hellers, Laticha Sotero, Jessica "Skrull Adam" Mascitti, Rich DePinto and Fallen Angel artist J. K. Woodward. The Basement also got an exclusive interview via The Pete Phone with John Layman, current writer of the comic Chew. Layman gave the Basement a first look at Chew #8 before its release on January 27, 2010.
Season 3 Episode 4 has Steve reviewing Chew #8 before its release, thanks to John Layman.
==Press==
"The Basement" was interviews by the New York Daily News. The article was published in October 2009 .Greenpoint comic book fanatics score cult following with podcast 'Pete's Basement', New York Daily News, October 18, 2009
Other interviews include one done by the Greenpoint GazetteTalking about Comics in Pete's Basement, The Greenpoint Gazette, November 19, 2009 - a local news publication in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
==Interviews==
* J.K. Woodward Interviewed by Pete's BasementJ.K. Woodward on Pete's Basement Season 2, Episode 44, November 10, 2009
* J.K. Woodward Guest on Pete's Basement 100th EpisodeJ.K. Woodward on Pete's Basement 100th Episode Season 2, Episode 48 - 30:43 Time Stamp, December 8, 2009
* John Layman Interviewed by Pete's BasementJohn Layman on Pete's Basement via The "Pete Phone" Season 3, Episode 3 - 01:17 Time Stamp, January 19, 2010
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