Here they are, the most viewed TVWriter™ posts during the past week:
How J.J. Abrams And Damon Lindelof Tricked ABC Into Putting LOST on the Air
Month: October 2014
Peggy Bechko: 8 Ways to Carve out Writing Time
by Peggy Bechko
If you’re a writer (notice I’m not saying ‘aspiring’ writer – a writer writes, if you write you’re a writer) it’s more than possible you’re at a time in your writing career where you have all kinds of obligations and responsibilities like putting food on the table, paying rent, maintaining a car or maybe going to school or a whole lot of other things.
It may be a novel you’re writing or a screenplay or articles for magazines or non-fiction instructional books to help others. Whatever it is it could be you’re juggling like mad and trying to figure out how to write a novel or script or whatever while you’re holding down a full time job or going to school full time.
Every writer no doubt has his or her own method of coping. I’m a full time writer now, but I’ll pass along a few things I did along the way. Some you probably won’t like to hear (there can be sacrifice involved in being a writer), others will seem more workable. Still others might just jump-start an idea that will work for you while you’re madly juggling.
Jorge c Perez: Gentlemen/women! Start Your (Writing) Engines!!
by Jorge c Perez
It’s 1 week since the official start of this year’s National Hispanic Media Coalition Fellowship (sponsored by ABC and NBC). This program was started 13 years ago by Alex Nogales, who hoped to change the TV landscape in regards to stereotypical portrayals of Latinos.
(Interesting Note: You don’t have to be Latino to submit to the program).
There is a fast-growing homework load, as well as some networking events that have already led to some doors opening. I have to watch and read at least two episodes of each show that other fellowship winners are writing: BROOKLYN 99, ORANGE IS THE NEW BACK, THE KNICK, SLEEPY HOLLOW, THE BLACKLIST, ARROW.
Coming Soon for TV Writers Everywhere
…Um, as long as you have an iSomething or other access to iTunes, that is:
Our Beloved Leader, LB, has seen this film and thinks it’s “Perfect. Exactly what it’s like to run a show. Except with less terror. Every aspiring TV writer should see this before it’s too late.”
Cara Winter: The Anglo Files 6
EPISODES
(or, how REV. may have dodged a bullet)
by Cara Winter
In doing a wee bit o’ research for my article about the British show REV., I read (here, and here) that creators Tom Hollander and James Wood had been in talks with ABC about turning their BAFTA-award winning show into an American sitcom. The American version would feature a doe-eyed pastor from the woods of Wisconsin, thrust into an inner-city parish in Chicago, yuddah, yudda… but since 2012, I can’t find anything about it in the trades. Googled it; nada, nuthin’. Not a G-D thing.
So, what’s up with that?! I suppose it could still be in development hell; lord knows there’s always that possibility. Maybe ABC is having issues with scripts, or casting, or finding it a spot in their lineup. Or maybe the person championing it at ABC now works for The Food Network.
Or maybe, just maybe, showrunner Bob Daily and/or Wood and/or Hollander happened to catch Showtime’s EPISODES… and thought better of the whole endeavor.