Month: September 2013
Binge Watching – Snuggling Up with Your Honey…Oops, We Mean Your TV
Are you a binge watcher? We used to be – but then we ran out of shows to binge on.
Used up all our faves, we did. Just like we do our lovers.
Oh, wait, we didn’t mean that. Noooo….
Love & Money Dept – TV Writing Deals for 9/6/13
Latest News About Writers Who Are Doing Better Than We Are
- Justin Spitzer (THE OFFICE) is writing an NBC pilot for a sitcom about events at a Detroit auto company. (Detroit? The American car biz? Funny? If Justin can pull off he’ll prove what a genius he is!)
- Jonathan Nolan (PERSON OF INTEREST) is set to adapt Michael Crichton‘s old film WESTWORLD into a series for HBO. (No Yul Brynner scary robot gunslinger stuff here. We hear that the show will dig into what already is PERSON OF INTEREST territory – the beginning of consciousness for artificial intelligence. One trick pony time? We hope not.)
- Brian Gallivan (THE McCARTHYS) is writing an unnamed sitcom about a guy who takes a long vacation with his family in New Hampshire…(Eh? What? Sorry, we fell asleep just typing that. Sheesh.)
- Brandon Schwartz (newbie) has written the pilot for an untitled Fox sitcom. (Although Brandon has written a couple of scripts at Nickelodeon, this is his first official network sale. Kudos, dude!)
- Chris Black has the gig to redevelop SAGA an ABC drama pilot written by Andrew Miller that the network rejected last year. (These are always tough jobs cuz everybody’s expecting the new writer to “save” a project that didn’t come from that writer’s gut.) Good luck, dood.)
Are You Crazy Good or…Crazy Bad?
What? You aren’t sure? It could go either way?
Yeah, we absolutely get that. So we went looking for some guidelines.
Here’s the amazingly helpful video we found:
Andrew Orillion: Brewing Up “On the Rocks” 3
Writing Staff
by Andrew Orillion
Welcome to part three of the behind the scenes look at the making of On The Rocks. Last time, I wrote about the creation of the pilot episode with showrunner Sam Miller and executive producer Chris Wu. This time, I’m going to take you into the writers’ room to meet the rest of the writing staff and find out how we take a story from concept to script.
The Best Laid Plans of Mice and Writers
With the pilot episode locked, it was time to outline or “break” episodes 102 through 106. Miller felt that first season should have a six-episode arc ending with a bottle episode where all the issues and tensions that had been brewing since the pilot would come to a head, but what would the bigger plot elements in between look like to lead the characters to that point?