The 11-week-old Hollywood writers strike may have turned TV into a rerun wasteland, but the creative juices are still flowing online, where Internet media syndicator 60Frames launched seven new series on Tuesday night.  The series, created by some of the same scribes now walking picket lines, will be distributed on sites like YouTube, MySpace, iTunes, Veoh and Joost, and will reach 90 percent of online video watchers, 60Frames CEO Brent Weinstein said. Episodes range in length from 90 seconds to 3 minutes.

The six-month-old company signed up veteran TV writers like Brent “The Office” Forrester and “Homicide” and “Oz” creator Tom Fontana, and has plans to syndicate more than 50 original series over the next 12 months, Weinstein said.

For writers who saw their development deals voided last week by the major TV studios, the Internet is starting to look pretty good, he said:

There are a lot of really talented writers who are immediately available, today, who would have said, “Let’s talk while I’m on hiatus”… . The world is going in a new direction in recognition of the fact that many talented artists wanted to create original programming for the Internet… in an environment where they had creative control and financial upside.

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