Mansfield Resident Bringing Big-Time Entertainment to the Local Area

Now the new Web show Adults Only may sound too much for most audiences but Mansfield resident and show creator Jason Burns says differently.

"It's about a formal Olympic gold medalist about 20 years later and he is forced to take a job managing his brother-in-law's adult video novelties store," Burns said. "The idea was to make the location itself less the star of the show and more of a plot device."

Burns has been living in Mansfield for the last five years. He grew up in neighboring North Attleboro, and feels that his experiences in the area helped shape his artistic and creative career.

"I've always lived in the area," he said. "When I started the company, part of the deal was that I wanted to bring stuff here. I didn't want to create the company and go shoot projects out in [Los Angeles] or New York or Vancouver. We self contained everything.”

The show itself, Burns said, could be rated at PG-13 if it were a movie. The show runs eight to 10 minute episodes that, in succession, create a full and complete story.

 Web shows are becoming more and more popular as a format for entertainment. Hit show about massive multiplayer online role-playing gamers The Guild and Mortal Kombat: Legacy have drawn large numbers in viewership and increasing star power, and Adults Only is no exception.

“It’s the one true medium where you can create and do whatever you want without outside interest people chiming in and giving their opinions,” Burns said. “We didn’t have to rely on other people telling us what to do, the only limitations were the ones that we put on ourselves. You can have a mass audience and not have to answer to other people.”

The show boasts talent from both the television and music entertainment industries, such as Danny Nucci, Vincent Pastore, Brian Austin Green, Sebastian Bach, Brianna Brown, Ronnie Marmo and Adrienne LaValley.

But regardless of the big names in the show, Burns is still keeping it local.

“It was all about bringing it full circle and keeping it here and home-based,” he said. “A large majority of the crew are people I went to school with, my script supervisor was my wrestling coach.”

The show was shot in area locations, such as North Attleboro and Mansfield.

“I worked at a video store up in North Attleboro on Kelly Boulevard pretty much my entire high school run,” he said. “The place we rented for the fake video store was just down the street from that.”

Burns said that his influences for his career were mostly comedy and horror (and sometimes a combination of the two). While the Adults Only show is a borderline racy comedy, the next project he will be working on will be a horror show.

“We don’t want to pigeon-hole ourselves,” he said. “Horror for me as a kid was like the ultimate escape of the real world. I felt like drama, comedy and stuff like that still resonated in what was going on. I liked really out-there horrors because they were fantasy.”

The show airs in March and its trailer can be viewed on the link to the right. Burns said the show is  similar in style to groundbreaking television sitcoms including “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” (FX), “The Office” (NBC), “Arrested Development” (FOX), “Happy Endings” (ABC), “30 Rock” (NBC), and “Community” (NBC).