S.P.A.M. Theater In 2008,
S.P.A.M. Theater debuted. Each episode features a dramatization of
email spam. Originally, the series featured images and videos from
Creative Commons-licensed media from the
image hosting and
video hosting website
Flickr and the nonprofit
digital library Internet Archive. The second episode "FOR MY DAUGHTER'S SAKE/DE@L OF A LIFETIME" featured the voices of Russ Gooberman and Dana Devonshire. In the third episode "Love Song of Kseniya,"
Boing Boings
Xeni Jardin reads her own email spam. In the fourth episode "The Proposition," Erik Sheppard of Voice Talent Productions contributes a voice.
SPAMasterpiece Theater 's BBtv office. On October 1, 2008, Jardin announced the official debut of the web series
SPAMasterpiece Theater—almost a month before the American release of
John Hodgman's
satirical almanac More Information Than You Require. Hodgman described it as "true tale[s] of romance, adventure, infamy, and low-cost prescription drugs, all culled from the reams of actual, unsolicited emails, received here by us and people like you -- what we call SPAM." The hosted series included dramatic readings by Hodgman in a parody of
Masterpiece Theatre. In 2010,
Boing Boing Videos Jardin was picked as "Curator of the Month". She commended the series with "These were so much fun to put together." ==Episodes==