"Cybergeddon," With Missy Peregrym, Hits Yahoo Yahoo Missy Peregrym in "Cybergeddon." When you've created "CSI," you don't have a lot left to prove in the entertainment business. But Anthony E. Zuiker isn't resting on his television laurels. He writes multiplatform "digi-novels" and is a partner in a YouTube channel, BlackBoxTV, that has more than 333,000 subscribers. Now Mr. Zuiker is taking his biggest step so far into new media with "Cybergeddon," a nine-part series that will be released, beginning on Tuesday, on the Yahoo! Screen video site. An executive producer, along with Matthew Weinberg and Bill O'Dowd, Mr. Zuiker is calling the video - which should total about 95 minutes and be available in 10 languages - a "motion picture event" distributed in installments directly to Yahoo's huge worldwide audience, should that audience happen to find it. (It has its own tab at the top of the Yahoo! Screen home page.) Judging from the first three installments, "event" might be an optimistic description of "Cybergeddon," but "better than your average TV-movie thriller" probably fits. Written by Miles Chapman ("Roadhouse 2: Last Call") and directed by Diego Velasco ("The Zero Hour"), it would look at home on the Syfy or USA channels and has a network star, Missy Peregrym of the ABC series "Rookie Blue." Mr. Zuiker's show is a conspiracy tale, as was Yahoo's first original drama, the animated series "Electric City," created by Tom Hanks, which went up in July. But Mr. Hanks's was set in a dreamy, postapocalyptic steam-punk future. "Cybergeddon" is very much in the here and now, positing a malevolent European criminal mastermind (Olivier Martinez, Diane Lane's lust object in "Unfaithful"), who begins a seemingly random series of digital attacks: the controls of a Los Angeles water plant, the accounts of a Hong Kong bank. Ms. Peregrym plays a coldly ambitious F.B.I. agent who spots the pattern but, before the first 10-minute episode ends, has been framed and arrested for cyberterrorism herself. This is not a show in which you want to sweat the plot details. This all happens quickly, as Mr. Chapman and Mr. Velasco, operating under standard Web video rules, squeeze more twists into each 10-to-11-minute episode than it should have to bear, a feat accomplished with the help of rat-a-tat dialogue out of an old movie serial. ("Agent Jocelyn! You're under arrest on three counts of cyberterrorism! "Are you kidding me?") Another sign that we're online: Ms. Peregrym's cleavage plays a larger role per minute than it does in prime time on "Rookie Blue." Ms. Peregrym, whose distinguishing characteristics as an actress are her sad eyes and her athleticism, makes a credible action hero but is perhaps not as convincing a tech genius. Helping Agent Jocelyn in her quest to clear her name and stop the cyberattacks is a jailed hacker named Rabbit, amusingly played by the Australian actor Kick Gurry. It would be wrong to leave a discussion of "Cybergeddon" without mentioning the commercial impediments to unfettered creativity in online drama. Among the logos prominently displayed in the opening credits is that of the digital-security company Symantec, which served as a consultant to the production but also has a significant role in the story. This isn't the kind of product placement in which a company's car or navigation system is used by the heroine - this is the kind in which a sponsor is turned into a heroic character. Producers can make all the excuses they want, but that kind of synergy puts a hard cap on how seriously their work can be taken. An earlier version of this article included a headline that misidentified the Web site where the series "Cybergeddon" is being published. It is Yahoo Screen, not YouTube.