by Paula Neal Mooney

Recently on TV I caught i-CAUGHT, an ingenius new ABC show about viral videos and the stories behind them.

The premise is so smart: i-CAUGHT takes some of the most popularly viewed internet videos and gives TV (and online) viewers the stories behind them.

Like the i-CAUGHT video about David Elsewhere, a wiggly and amazing dancer whose viral video somehow escaped me as a webhead.

(Must’ve been before I started seriously blogging.)

Same with this “Battle at Kruger” i-CAUGHT video showing a baby buffalo nearly getting killed by a pride of lions — battled by a hungry crocodile in the water — who is then rescued by the buffalo herd.

Then there was the i-CAUGHT video of Merry Miller, the inept blonde newscaster (no blonde jokes here, it’s just a description) who conducted a horrible interview with Holly Hunter.

But the two sad and heartbreaking stories that caught my heart (ones that I don’t see the videos of on i-CAUGHT) were the sagas of Jon Cornbleet, whose dad was murdered; and Angelika Taylor, whose brother was found dead in a car.

Jon uploaded video of the alleged killer; Angelika Taylor used MySpace to get the word out as soon as her brother went missing.

So i-CAUGHT is doing a good service in connecting the television viewing audience with the internet, and encapsulating what’s what in the land of viral videos.

It’ll be tre cool when i-CAUGHT gets hips to YouTube viral video sensation Tay Zonday, singer of the heartrending “Chocolate Rain” song and puts him on the ABC show.


In the meantime, have you got your own video? Upload it to i-CAUGHT here.

Maybe it’ll go viral.

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