Month: July 2015

HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE NATIONAL HISPANIC MEDIA COALITION’S ANNUAL MEDIACON

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by Kelly Jo Brick

NHMC MediaCon is not only an event dedicated to exploring the achievements and challenges that Latinos face in the entertainment industry, it also a day filled with great inspiration from a wide array of panelists and an opportunity for attendees to make connections directly with managers, writers and producers.

With panels focused on getting representation, how the internet is revolutionizing Latino content creation and the business of TV writing, the day was a coming together to strategize how to infuse more Latinos into the media industry, both in front of and behind the camera. read article

New US sci-fi, fantasy and horror shows for 2016

TVWriter™ just got its paws on this geeky delight – all the news that’s fit to post about science, fiction, fantasy, and even horror shows that are coming to our small screens in 2016. So, geeks that we in fact are – here ’tis:

Judging from this pic, when Jessica Jones sez she's gonna kick our butts, she means it.
Judging from this pic, when Jessica Jones sez she’s gonna kick our butts, she means it.

by Caroline Preece

The world of TV has never been so crowded and, at the same time, geeks have never had it so good. As saturated as the big screen is with superhero films and sprawling shared universes, that mentality has well and truly bled onto the small screen too.

So there’s a lot of comic-book adaptations coming up in 2016 from Marvel, DC and others, but genre TV is represented across the board with science-fiction, fantasy and horror represented at pretty much every network and cable channel in the US. read article

David S. Goyer, Creator of DaVINCI’S DEMONS, Tells Us About Screenwriting

David Goyer, the best illustrated writer we know
David Goyer, the best illustrated writer we know

David S. Goyer is one of the greats of TV and film writing, and here he is in all his superheroic glory, talking about the subject nearest to just about every TVWriter™ visitor’s heart:

Seattle Area Playwright is Pulitzer Prize Finalist

Jordan Harrison has just been named a Finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize in the playwriting category. That in itself is cool enough, but time now for the extra-cool local spin: Jordan’s from Bainbridge Island Washington, just a hop, skip, no jump necessary from the personal HQ of our Beloved Leader, LB. When are we going to have a Pulitzer Prize winner posting on TVWriter™, boss? Huh? Huh?

 by Seraine Page

Jordan Harrison still isn’t sure he’s made it big in the writing field.

That idea may seem ludicrous to most writers considering the fact that Harrison, 37, recently scored a slot among the crème de la crème in playwriting. In April, he learned his play, “Marjorie Prime,” was selected as one of the finalist pieces in the 2015 Pulitzer Prize playwriting category. read article

TVWriter™’s Top Posts of the Week Ending July 17th 2015

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The posts TVWriter™ visitors clicked on most during the past week were:

2015 PEOPLE’S PILOT Semi-Finalists! read article