Month: August 2013

Love & Money Dept – TV Writing Deals for 8/2/13

Latest News About Writers Who Are Doing Better Than We Are

  • Dana Klein (the upcoming FRIENDS WITH BETTER LIVES) has a new overall deal with 20th Century Fox Television. (And we have nothing snarky to say about this at all. Just a good old-fashioned, “Congrats!”)
  • Tony Phelan & Joan Rater (GREY’S ANATOMY) have made an overall deal with CBS Television Studios. (Nothing bitchy here either: These two worked long and hard for Shonda Rhimes and deserve their big chance here.)
  • John Sullivan (THE REAPER comic books) is developing a “supernatural family show” called BOOGEYMEN as for Nickelodeon Original Films. (It’s about time Nickelodeon risked another film. Congrats on growing a pair, guys.)
  • Danny McBride & Jody Hill (EASTBOUND & DOWN) are developing a new comedy for HBO. (Presumably it’ll be their fulltime gig after EASTBOUND finishes its last season, which starts in September of this year.)
  • Syfy has announced that it has ordered a pilot based on the feature film LEGACY. But of course the series will be named DOMINION cuz why the hell not? (Nope, no writer has been named on this deal. We’re thinking that no writer wants anybody else to know s/he is working for Syfy. The place seems to be career poison for everybody but Ron Moore.)

Ooh, Pivot TV Boss is Getting Pissy

Oh well, at least he’s good looking.

That’s what’s important to us millennials, right?

Our last post on this subject – um, today anyway: read article

Hey, Millennials, Welcome Your New Cable Network!

Um, too bad millenials don’t watch TV. When is some genius going to give us what we’ll really use – an online network of original material that we can watch on our phones or, when our parents are out, connect to their big-honking-assed TVs?

But for now:

pivot_pmby Team TVWriter™ Press Service
(yeppers, it’s a press release)

Pivot, Participant Media’s new cable network targeting millennials, The New Greatest Generation, will launch August 1, 2013. read article

Angelo J. Bell: The Countdown Has Begun

EDITOR’S NOTE: We love Angelo Bell not only for his talent but for his intensity. These powerful feelings are what the biz should always be about:

by Angelo J. Bell

The Countdown has begun.

I’m putting the finishing touches on my “Massively Big Project,” you know, the project I’ve been secretly working on in-between pitching TV series and MOW’s to NBCUniversal.  It’s do-or-die time; the moment when you realize you can tweak from now until doomsday but nothing is guaranteed, so you might as well go for broke now. read article