Month: February 2015

Common Career Wisdom That isn’t All That Wise

As long as we’re giving networking tips, here are a few other things you need to know. Well, “not know,” actually. Erase these Old Wives Tales and proceed onward to career victory!

futureseerby Herbert Lui

Finding your first “real” job can be anxiety-inducing, stressful, and extremely confusing. A lot of classic advice isn’t exactly concrete truth, though, even though the principle might be right. Here’s some career wisdom you should consider revisiting.

Advice: “It’s Not What You Know, It’s Who You Know.” read article

Leesa Dean: Tips from YouTube

Adventures of a Web Series Newbie – Chapter 94
by Leesa Dean

youtubeThis week I went to a workshop that was part of series called Build Your Channel and held at and run by YouTube in their NYC offices. This event had been previously scheduled a few weeks back but they had to change the date because of the blizzard. The series is intended to help creators broaden audiences and this one specialized in Channel and Video Optimization. It was packed.

Since I’m planning on releasing a series later this year and promotion and audience building is what my main focus is this days, I was chomping at the bit to check this out.

Turns out a friend, Robin, who’s in the process of upgrading her site was also going so we met and went together. They took us a few flights down to a special classroom, set up just for these workshops. Which was pretty impressive. They had refreshments and about 120 people were there. read article

All the Stats You’ll Ever Need About TV Pilot Season 2015 – So Far

We’re writers. And we have great ideas for TV series. Ideas we want to sell. But it behooves us to do our level best to learn what Big Media wants, and thinks it needs, and, above all, is paying all those BIG $$$ for. Here’s what we know so far:

the numbers tell the story

by Leslie Goldberg

GRAND TOTALS

Total orders: 83 (95 in 2014, down 12)
Dramas: 40 (45 in 2014, down 5)
Comedies: 43 (50 in 2014, down 7)
Single-camera: 24 (32 in 2014, down 8)
Multicamera: 16 (17 in 2014, down 1)
Hybrid: 1 (1 in 2014, even)
TBD: 2
Series orders 2014: 54 read article

Cartoons: One Page At a Time

From the amazingly talented Grant Snider:onepageatatime-webrevised:

Why M*A*S*H Didn’t Mesh In Later Years

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by Herbie J Pilato

The classic TV series M*A*S*H, which gave the world Alan Alda and a band of brilliant actors (and which was based on the 1970 Korean War medical-military feature film dramedy of the same name), originally aired on CBS from 1972 to 1983.

But it was never really the same after its second season. In other words, it wasn’t funny anymore; and in some sectors, it wasn’t considered even likable. It was a good show beyond its sophomore year, but it wasn’t the same show. It was like some kind of bizarro version of original self (which see Superman mythology); kind of like the less-than-worthy spin-off series (AfterM*A*S*H) it spawned after it ended.

So, what happened? Why did the series change? When did the show change? What were the changes? read article