Well, she doesn’t really call it that ‘cuz she’s a classy lady. Whereas we…hey, you know. Here, from Peggy’s blog, are her thoughts on writing to sell:
Should Writers Write For the Market? – by Peggy Bechko
Yes.
Month: November 2012
Job Opportunity of the Day
Found on Twitter, so you know it’s for reals:
Who’s ready to make $100k as an EP? Contact @TV_Agent_Beth or myself ASAP. (Don’t email if you have NO #TVnews experience). Mahalo.
We’d check this out but we have no #TVnews experience other than having our mug shot shown locally back when we…oh, erm, nevermind. Nobody really cares about that, right?
Love & Money Dept – TV Writing Deals for 11/4/12
“Writing for money is a totally unfulfilling waste of time. Writing for love, though, can often end up making you a ton of money.” (Anon.)
- Leslie Levings, creator of The Beastlies monster figurines, reports that she’s signed on to develop her creations into an animation project for J.J. Abrams’ company BAD ROBOT. (Which we think is really cool because it proves you don’t even have to be a writer to create a TV series these days, and writing being as hard as it is, hey, this is really awesome!)
- Jamie Paglia (EUREKA) is writing the pilot for an ABC drama called EVOLVE, based on the Toxic City trilogy by Tim Lebbon. (Which we think is doubly cool because not only has Jamie aced out the writer of the books, the title is totally different so that none of their readers will ever suspect something they love is about to be on the air. Oh, waitaminnint, that doesn’t sound quite right, does it?)
- Lew Schneider (EVERYBODY LOVES RAYMOND) & Rick Marin are adapting Marin’s Kindle Single memoir, Keep Swinging, in a sitcom for ABC. (Which we think is triply cool because, hey, Kindle, self-published stuff, making good…something all of us dream of, right? Right?)
- Jonathan Ames (BORED TO DEATH) is writing a BORED TO DEATH TV movie for HBO. (Which is quadrupaly cool because a) it was our favorite show all 3 years it was on the air b) we got the word personally from this dood named Ted Danson and we’re just all giddy cuz he even spoke to us. HBO’s official response to this, btw, is silence, but screw them. Ted’s the Man!)
And The Most Profitable 1/2-Hour TV Show in History is…
Yep, it’s SEINFELD!
According to the New York Post, SEINFELD has earned more money since it went off the air than the gross national product of most countries – $2.7 billion.
This particular info, usually top secret, was revealed at an investors’ conference last month, when Time Warner bragged to potential investors that reruns of the series on broadcast TV have grossed $2.3 billion since 1998, with another $380 mil coming in from cable reruns. SEINFELD consists of 180 episodes, so you can figure that each half-hour of the series has made more than $14,000,000 so far.
Without FUTURAMA There’d Be No WRECK-IT RALPH
The good folks at io9 bring us some words from former FUTURAMA and THE SIMPSONS director Rich Moore, whose vision backstops WRECK-IT RALPH.
How Working on Futurama Prepares You to Make One of the Year’s Best Animated Movies