Here they are, the most viewed TVWriter™ posts during the past week:
Month: September 2014
TVWriter™ Contributing Editor Herbie J Pilato has Lunch with Richie Petrie
AKA the TV son of THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW’s Rob and Laura Petrie.
AKA Larry Matthews the child actor.
And TVWriter™ is there:
Peer Production: FOL’AMOR
If Disney had stayed the course, it might have produced shorts like this beauty:
This is just one of many wonderful videos available on Vimeo from Gobelins, a genuine pioneer studio in digital communication and design. Right now, Gobelins has 700 students from all over the world, and when this place calls itself “vibrant,” it ain’t kidding.
WGA Probing Producers’ Use Of “Paper Teams” to Short-Change Writers
Why We Need the Writers Guild of America, West Dept:
Always looking for the crooked angle, some unscrupulous film and TV companies have found a way to hire two writers for the price of one. Taking advantage of young, mostly inexperienced writers, these companies pair them up to form what’s called “paper teams” – two writers who are forced to work together for half the pay. Even some older experienced writers have caved to the companies’ demands that they work as a team. It’s a violation of the WGA’s contract, but so far nobody’s been caught doing it – not that the WGA West isn’t trying.
“That’s the scam — to get two writers for the price of one,” a guild source told Deadline. “It’s one of those areas that in hard times, writers, in economic self-interest, will say, ‘I need a job so bad, I’ll take it even if it’s half-scale.’ It’s been going on as long as unscrupulous producers have been taking advantage of hard-pressed writers.”
October TVWriter™ Advanced Workshop Still has Openings!
Who’d a thunk it? The next TVWriter™ Advanced Online Workshop starts October 2nd, a week from today, and we have three openings left.
If you’re ready to dive in and learn more at each of the four meetings than you ever thought you’d learn in, oh, a whole semester in a normal writing class, then now’s a perfect time to sign on and be amazed by Our Beloved Leader, Larry Brody, the dude behind this site.
Editing/cutting down on wordage is everything to LB, so we’re going to follow his lead. Which means that instead of going into all those details, details, details about what the Workshop is and how it operates, we’re sending you straight to the Advanced Online Workshop Page.