"The Kong Show on TV!" Comedy Webseries Filmed in New York will be featured on Roku TV in an Indie Black Film Contest

New York City, New York Feb 19, 2021 (Issuewire.com)  - The pilot episode of “The Kong Show on TV!” a comedy web series filmed in New York City, in the neighborhood of Astoria/Long Island City, in the Kaufman Astoria Arts district, around the corner from the famous Astoria Kaufman studios, in the borough of Queens, is currently on Roku TV in an independent film contest on the newly launched Indie Black Film Channel.

Indie Black Film LLC is launching a Roku TV channel called Indie Black Film TV. 10 filmmakers will be picked and put on their channel every week. The winner will move to the next week. If a winner wins 4 weeks in a row he or she will be offered to be represented by Indie Black Film.

Indie Black Film specializes in helping filmmakers to compete with the major directors and studios, by building the hype that distributors and sales agents are looking for. The contest on Roku TV exposes indie short films, music videos, feature films, or documentaries to brand new, targeted movie watchers.

Independent black filmmaker Ella Smith and her co-producer and spouse Powell Leonard, are the founders of the Astoria, Queens-based Powella Productions. He’s Powell, she’s Ella, together they’re Powella Productions, producers of the onstage comedy variety show “The Kong Show” and their latest endeavor, the comedy web series “The Kong Show on TV!” Their pilot episode entitled “The Kong Show on TV: The Last Pilot!” has been chosen to be featured this week on the Indie Black Film channel on Roku TV!

Powella Productions "The Kong Show on TV!" a comedy web series filmed in Astoria, is produced by Astoria Characters Powell ‘Chuck E. Baby’ Leonard and Ella ‘Miz E’ Smith, and freelance director and editor Tom Bibla. These days, you can often spot the editor and the producers of "The Kong Show on TV!" dining outdoors at Cronin & Phelan's Bar and Restaurant around the corner from Steinway on Broadway. One of the featured performers in the comedy web series, Stand Up Comedy Magic Irish Dave Cremin, can often be found serving drinks and performing magic there. He makes the drinks appear!

Seeing familiar Astoria neighbors, friends, business owners and performers on-screen is one reason why people watch “The Kong Show on TV!” comedy web series. The scenes take place at a fictional tv station, Station KNG-TV, but are actually filmed at familiar New York City locals, like Cronin and Phelan’s Bar and Restaurant in Astoria, the Iguana VIP Lounge around the corner from “The Late Show” in Manhattan, 3308 Eats and Drinks on Broadway in Astoria, Queens and unusual spaces like the L.IC. Tonsorial, a barbershop by day, and a socially distanced event space by night. The characters on screen are familiar because in real life they may be your neighbor, your barber, your bartender, or a local musician or even a local performer that you may have also seen before on “Saturday Night Live” or “America’s Got Talent” or on QPTV, or a local business owner like Dr. Cori Stern of HealthPoint Natural Nutrition Center, who plays a doctor in a sketch comedy and is actually a doctor in real life. “The Kong Show on TV!” performers are local performers that you actually may know off-screen, or saw online in their own virtual interactive show on Zoom, or Facebook Live, or at a socially distanced special event.
The filmmakers of Powella Productions, partner with local businesses for filming locals, while providing local talent with an opportunity to represent their talents on screen.

You can watch even more magic, music, comedy, and fun now on Roku TV on the Indie Black Film channel.

A 20-minute clip of Astoria's "The Kong Show on TV: The Last Pilot!" is at the top of the semi-finalist selections! Be Kongtastic! Go register on Roku TV, go to the Indie Black Film Channel and vote for “The Kong Show!”

Many Thanks to the many Kongtastic performers that have been part of "The Kong Show!" live comedy variety shows and the web series filmed in New York City, in Astoria, Queens "The Kong Show on TV!"

"The Kong Show on TV!” takes place inside KNG-TV station, where live studio performances are being filmed. Meanwhile, behind-the-scenes, Maroney Sparks, owner of KNG-TV, is attempting to close the station in an attempt to score millions in a twisted tax fraud scheme. Hilarity ensues as billionaire Maroney Sparks is thwarted by the forces of fun frantic antics from one Chuck E Baby, Miz E with a Z!, and their loyal fans, along with an accountant who's in a witness protection program and a few secret agents from more than one side working to save and/or destroy the world. It all happens in a world that’s more than just sketch, a universe that’s more than just stand-up, a dimension that’s more than you can imagine. And, that dimension is called, “The Kong Show on TV!”

KNG-TV station and the behind-the-scenes staff are fictional, but the studio performers are real performers that you can join at a socially distanced event, interact with on Zoom or Facebook Live, or hire to perform for your own virtual or socially distanced special event.

“The Kong Show on TV!” web series is like “30 Rock” and “The Producers” with a dash of “The Twilight Zone” and “SNL” mixed with “SCTV!”

In the web series pilot episode “The Kong Show on TV!: The Last Pilot!” Rik Sansone appears as the billionaire KNG-TV station owner Maroney Sparks; Maurice Kessler as KNG-TV station accountant Mo Flemkoff; Frau Stassi as secret agent Hirself; magician Rene Clement as secret agent and talent manager Marty Portabras; Powell Leonard as comedy show host Chuck E. Baby, Ella Smith as wacky co-host Miz E with a Z, and studio performers: musician Killy ‘Mockstar’ Dwyer, SNL comedian Bob Greenberg, Stand Up Comedy Magic Irish Dave Cremin

“The Kong Show on TV!” We're Kongtastic!

In “The Kong Show on TV!” half of the fun of the show is the Kongsational editing by Tom Bibla, it’s something impressive and different, and the producers Powell Leonard and Ella Smith have recruited a variety of Kongtastically talented performers to show something amazing to the public who have a keen interest in watching sketch comedy and vaudeville-style variety!

The Indie Black Film channel promotes only the best films, TV shows, shorts, docs, etc. So, here’s a call out to other filmmakers, be ready to create something different and amazing to represent on Roku TV’s new channel.

Media Contact

Powella Productions kongshowtv@gmail.com 347-880-6813 34-26 41st Street, 3B http://KongShowTV.com