He’s embracing a new medium for state-of-the art entertainment.

It’s dramedy on the web, and creator Matthew Gregory is excited by its prospects.

His goal is to make one episode each week. He’s made eight so far which appear on YouTube under the series’ title, “OUR GRACIOUS DRAWING-ROOM.”

In the first season he used a cast of three main characters using their real names, Ethan Berkley, Max Cole-Takanikos and Nicole Parnell.

The next episode, which is planned for release today, includes actor Amy Walker, who will play a recurring character named “Tiffaniey” in the series.

“It’s an ‘on-demand’ mentality that this generation has embraced,” Gregory said.

He refers to a generation cultivated on Google, smartphones, Xboxes and YouTube.

Indeed, the episodes are quick at seven minutes, because in the world of the web, audience attention will wane in just minutes, the director said.

“Ten minutes is deadly,” Gregory said.

“OUR GRACIOUS DRAWING-ROOM” follows the often super mundane daily lives of its three characters who share a house in an unnamed place, though Whidbey Island is recognizable in many shots. Gregory uses simple shots, letting the scenes play out with very few cuts. The style lends itself to the realism of the piece, with long pauses absent of dialogue and actors often walking in and out of a shot.

The production is equally spartan.

“Our production costs are nothing.

I use a Kodak K-100. It’s like a Flip camera. It shoots in 1080 (pixels). For the Web it’s pretty good definition,” he added.

Gregory said it’s the narrative that he’s after, and that just turning the camera on and letting it go, while the actors play out the pre-scripted scene, works well for him.

“I enjoy embracing tension,” said Gregory who recently studied filmmaking, directing and video production.

“I gave the actors a minimal amount of background,” he explained. “I told Max he’s a neurotic, Ethan he’s a stoner without the pot and Nicole she’s a little crazy.”

The episodes have titles that belie their action and sound somewhat esoteric. The first eight episodes are “New Roommate,” “Recycling,” “Connectionz,” “Italy Expert,” “Plastics,” “Pigs in a Blanket,” “Private Dancer” and “Decompressing.”

Gregory said the scripts reflect topical themes such as Nicole losing her job and going on a mid-day drinking binge in “Private Dancer,” or dealing with having to drive her friends around without them contributing money for gas in “Decompressing.”

In fact, these episodes are not at all esoteric and hold very little mystery. They are full of the mundane, the trivial and lots of unnecessary drama, which subsequently makes the content sometimes extraordinarily dry and funny, in an out-of-control sort of way.

“Connectionz” focuses on Max and Ethan waiting on hold for technical support on the Internet; “Pigs in a Blanket” reveals a contest between Ethan and Max who each cook their own version of that famous gourmet delicacy and have Nicole judge in an ironic parody of TV cooking shows; and “Italy Expert” grates with Max’s one week visit to Italy from which he returns pretentiously speaking like a native Italian and acting as if he is the world’s foremost expert on all things Italian. That episode ends with Max and Nicole rolling around the backyard in a mad, bleep-filled fight.

Gregory calls it “observational comedy,” similar to “Seinfeld,” or a romantic comedy like “Three’s Company,” but without the sex.

“These actors are all stage actors and I take advantage of that,” Gregory said.

But what the actors do here in front the camera may require something different from what happens onstage.

“You have to appreciate the dead air almost as much as the dialogue,” Berkley said.

Playing a character that has the same name is also strange, but Gregory said it is a trend in modern television.

“It is to a degree part of me, the more relaxed part,” Berkley said of the Ethan of “OUR GRACIOUS DRAWING-ROOM.”

“But I’m hoping to be able to show more depth in coming scenes, which will distinguish ‘Ethan’ from Ethan,” he added.

Gregory chalks it up to good luck that he has experienced actors with whom he collaborates and who inspire ideas for scripts. His goal is to create web entertainment that resonates, that gets a conversation going among the audience.

“I look at the Internet as, ‘The world is my oyster,’” Gregory said.

Watch the first nine episodes of “OUR GRACIOUS DRAWING-ROOM” at www.youtube.com/OGDRvideo. Visit the Facebook page and “like” the webseries at www.facebook.com/OurGraciousDrawingRoom and get new episodes on your newsfeed each Wednesday.