Month: August 2013

Love & Money Dept – TV Writing Deals for 8/24/13

Latest News About Writers Who Are Doing Better Than We Are

  • Gwyn Lurie & Gary Marks (THE MUSIC NEVER STOPPED) are writing SPARKS, a drama pilot for NBC based on the career of a real-life super neurologist. (Yep, brains are in this season. So much so that it’s making our head hurt.)
  • Matt Miller (CHUCK) is writing FOREVER, a pilot about an immortal pathologist for NBC. (The idea seems to be that he knows how everyone else dies but can’t seem to find something that will kill him. Which we understand the poor hero wanting to do since he’ll be, you know, stuck on NBC.)
  • Darren Star (SEX AND THE CITY) is writing YOUNGER, a TV Land pilot about a 40-something woman who re-starts her life by passing as a lass in her twenties. (We hate this idea because it seems to “inside” – there was a TV writer who did this very thing a few years ago – but admit we would’ve bought it too cuz, hey, fucking Darren fucking Star, you know?)
  • Thomas Moran (HOUSE) is writing the pilot for ST. NICK, a Fox drama series about a young priest going down the wrong path. (As in he allows himself to be corrupted! Can you believe it? Oh, the shock. The shame! The outraged letters from parishioners if this hits the air.)
  • Dan Fogelman (THE NEIGHBORS) has a new overall deal with ABC Studios. (And while we aren’t crazy about THE NEIGHBORS we probably would’ve signed up the guy who created the CARZ animated film franchise too. Ka-ching!)

WGAW Meet the Candidates Night Coming Soon

…And we think the whole world should go.

Support democracy and all that, fellow scribes.

Anyway:

Top TVWriter™ Posts for the Week Ending 8/23/13

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Here they are, the most viewed TVWriter™ posts for the past week:

Here are the 2013 PEOPLE’S PILOT Finalists read article

The FIREFLY Board Game is Only 1 Week Away

fireflygameboxOur favorite deadline of the year so far.

To be precise, the Firefly game is available for pre-order on Amazon.Com, with its in-house-ready-to-ship date given as September 1. As you can see at the bottom of this post, Amazon doesn’t have a lot of info, but here’s some info from the maker, Gale Force Nine:

In Firefly: The Game – based on the popular Firefly television series created by Joss Whedon – players captain their own Firefly-class transport ship, traveling the ‘Verse with a handpicked crew of fighters, mechanics and other travelers. read article

Love & Money Dept – TV Writing Deals for 8/23/13

Latest News About Writers Who Are Doing Better Than We Are

  • Dan Kopelman  (RULES OF ENGAGEMENT) has sold the pilot for THE HENCHMAN, a sitcom, to Fox. (PR descriptions remind us of both DESPICABLE ME and THE VENTURE BROTHERS plus it’s live-action, so we’re smiling in anticipation.)
  • Lee Eisenberg, Gene Stupnitsky, & Danny Chung (THE OFFICE) have sold GORGEOUS MORONS, a sitcom about two very buff but very stupid brothers to CBS. (Which reminds us of every Coen Brothers film ever made so, you know, how bad can it be?)
  • Jason Horwitch (RUBICON) has sold NOONE, a romantic detective series pilot, to Fox. (Where it’ll be run by BONES’ creator/EP Hart Hanson, so – OMG! – we’re looking forward to this one too.)
  • Mike Arnold (ARCHER) is writing the pilot for an untitled ABC sitcom, and, frankly, we don’t care what it’s about we’ll watch it anyway. (Cuz ARCHER just happens to be the best-written show in the history of the entertainment biz, so…)
  • Kelly Masterson (upcoming KILLING KENNEDY) is writing the pilot for an  ABC murder trial mystery called LIMELIGHT. (This one sadly breaking our current optimistic streak because KILLING KENNEDY is based on a book by Bill O’Reilly and, well, you know….)