Month: September 2013

Peer Production: THE CLINTONS Last Episode

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Believe it or not, writers and fans alike are still debating the last episode of THE SOPRANOS, just as Democrats and Republicans alike are still arguing about Hillary Clinton.

So we were delighted to see this oldie but goodie (made all the way back in 2007) on YouTube:

munchman sees ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK

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The Good:

Womens in prison! So many chances for exploitive sex! Gotta luv it, baby! read article

How Intelligent Constraints Drive Creativity

Translation: If everything’s too easy, we won’t bother getting to creative about it.

Translation of translation: Creatives function best when we have obstacles to overcome.

Damn. read article

John Hodgman’s Advice to Writers

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You can find this book HERE

Good stuff from a guy who’s been both an author and a literary agent.

We particularly like the fact that he appears so comfortable on camera. We appeared on TV once and it was…hell.

(We also think that in another life Hodgman was some guy living in Hawaii named Higgins, but he denies it.) read article

Love & Money Dept – TV Writing Deals for 9/5/13

Latest News About Writers Who Are Doing Better Than We Are

  • Kate Gersten (newbie) has made a deal to write an untitled sitcom pilot for Fox. (Kate’s a playwrighting student at Juilliard and the sitcom will be an adaptation of a play she’s written, so this should be good, dontcha know?)
  • Rob Thomas (VERONICA MARS) is developing a contemporary version of Les Miserables for Fox. (Ooh, based on a hit film/play/book, so this should be good…maybe?)
  • Liz Vassey (actress-writer on CSI once upon a time) is writing a sitcom pilot about, um, bowling for NBC. (Ooh, kinda reminds us of big hit THE BIG LEBOWSKY, so this should be awesome…huh?)
  • Matt Dearborn (EVEN STEVENS) & Racelle Rosett (BLOSSOM) are writing a CBS sitcom pilot called RAISED BY WOLVES about a guy whose buddies help him raise his young daughter. (Hey, remember THREE MEN AND A BABY? It was kinda like this, so of course – gonna be huge…yeah?)
  • Nikki Toscano (BATES MOTEL) is writing a “terrorist drama” pilot for CBS about a CIA agent who investigates terrorist training right here at home in the U.S.A. (And if this HOMELAND sound-alike doesn’t make it big, we’ll eat our…um…poison pill. Yeppers, that’s what we’ll do.)
  • Pam Veasey (CSI: NY) is writing the pilot for a Fox series based on Jonathan Kellerman’s Alex Delaware mystery series about a psychologist who solves crimes with his partner, a secretly gay LAPD detective. (Gayness! LAPD! Already a best-selling series of books…oh, and produced by the man who brought us the whole darn CSI family. Couldja ask for more? Huh?)

And there ya have it for today. Who says we can’t be positive about the future of TV?