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Hollywood writers' strike got you down? Online alternative My Damn Channel is adding two new original shows. "Itty Bitty Liddy" and "Tim after Tim."

If the Hollywood writers' strike has got you down—and let's remember the last WGA strike in 1988 lasted six months!—then the recently launched alternative My Damn Channel has two new original shows which might help while away some of life's more aimless moments. Launched back in August, My Damn Channel is the brainchild of MTV and CBS radio executive Rob Barnett, and aims to tap into the demand for online video by offering A-list content freed from the constraints of typical television and radio programming. The service debuted with content from veteran comedian Harry Shearer (The Simpsons, Spinal Tap, and a million other things), and now is adding two new episodic comedy series from creative studio Big Fat Brain Institute: Itty Bitty Liddy and Tim After Tim.

Itty Bitty Liddy re-imagines conservative pundit and convicted Watergate conspirator G. Gordon Liddy as a 6-inch tall covert coert operative who, in the first episode, is tasks with discrediting Democratic presidential candidate and U.S. congressman Dennus Kucinich. Tim After Tim follows the adventures of character Tim as he travels back in time an interacts with his past self. In the premier episode (which should be available here, eventually) Tim's disruption of the space-time continuum eliminates the TV show House from existence. (And you thought time travel was a bad thing!).

The shows are produced by Big Fat Brain's Matt Bledsoe and Troy Hitch, who also star as Liddy and Tim, respectively. The studio has also been responsible for the My Damn Channel site and well-received promotional videos.