Month: June 2012

Ooh, You Really Love Us

Everything’s fixed now, but TVWriter™ was offline for a few hours Friday night and Saturday morning because we “exceeded [our] allowed bandwidth.” This is the first time in 15 years that’s happened.

Thanks for responding so well to the re-design.

We love you too. read article

First Look at BULLET IN THE FACE

We Dare You to Turn Your Head Away from this Trailer


And that’s just a short sample of what happens when a network lets a strong, talented writer-producer do his thing.

BULLET IN THE FACE debuts August 16th & 17th at 10 pm Eastern/Pacific time with three back to back half-hour episodes on IFC.

Yes, this is an unabashed plug for BULLET IN THE FACE creator and TVWriter™ fave Alan Spencer, without whose classic comedy series SLEDGEHAMMER (our favorite MIKE HAMMER “homage”) all of Adult Swim wouldn’t exist. read article

TVWriter™ Post of the Week


As determined by, hmm, us.

Because we can.

(We had a whole “somebody has to be the gatekeeper” explanation/argument ready and then remembered that we’re all anti-gatekeeper, and anti-hypocrisy. So it would’ve been bullshit anyway.) read article

What’s the Story on MediaBistro.Com?

…Because they’ve got what looks like the world’s greatest writing/editing/producing and all-over media jobs listing service ever:

Curious…so curious…because we’re always, you know, trying to help.

THE GLADES is Back for Season 3

by Larry Brody

My wife Gwen the Beautiful and I have been enjoying A&E’s THE GLADES since its debut. For us, the series has two things going for it.

  1. It’s a cop show from the days they were cop shows instead of police procedurals, which means that although there are some unexpected twists  there’s also a light-hearted feeling that makes me glad to be watching. (As opposed to,  say, the plodding grimness of the CSIs, and the forced, usually unsuitable unclever repartee of the “Characters Welcome” shows on USA.)
  2. The star, Matt Passmore, looks just like old friend, law-enforcement-officer-turned-actor-writer-producer Chriss Anglin.
Not Matt Passmore

Last night we settled in to watch our DVR’d Season 3 opener and had a good time. This show goes especially well with tequila, and with 1800 anejo…ah. We were especially pleased to see that the spark has returned to the Jim Longworth-Callie Cargill relationship. (The hero and his honey, right.)

But– read article