Month: October 2015

The Law May Be An Ass, But So is ROSEWOOD

Usually Comic Mix’s Bob Ingersoll utilizes his legal expertise to write about liberties taken with the law in comic book Land. But last week he found errors so egregious on a certain new TV series that he just had to take a stand. And we here at TVWriter™ are very glad he did:

For a heart patient, MorrisChestnut's in pretty good shape, yeah?
For a heart patient, MorrisChestnut’s in pretty good shape, yeah?

by Bob Ingersoll

Seriously writers and producers of Rosewood, you don’t have to make it this easy for me.

Rosewood is a new TV series on Fox. It’s a police procedural; but to make it different from all the other procedurals it has a gimmick: the main character takes a drug that unlocks the full potential of his brain. No, wait, it’s that the main character is a naked amnesiac with tattoos all over her body. read article

Peggy Bechko’s 6 Tips for Getting Your Script – or Novel – Read

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…In Hollywood – or somewhere!

You’ve no doubt been told some of these things before – perhaps even here on TVWriter™, but it is worth bringing up again and reminding you of some things you should and most certainly should not do in order to get someone, somewhere to read what you’ve written.

You DO want to appear professional, don’t you? In fact I’ve no doubt you want to BE professional. So here goes. read article

Entertainment Weekly’s disgraceful decision puts “prestige” over paying writers

When is interacting with viewers and readers “audience participation,” and when is it “Hey, let’s get the punters to do our writing work for us for nothing?” This Salon.Com writer has an interesting perspective on the situation. Sure hope he got paid for it:

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by Daniel D’Addario

Entertainment Weekly, the venerable consumer-friendly magazine about movies and TV and the like, is under the same crunch as the rest of the media industry; its parent company, Time Inc., has recently gone through a series of layoffs. But the manner in which the magazine is attempting to build out its brand is the absolute worst-case scenario — bad for authors and for readers.

Lucia Moses at Digiday reports that Entertainment Weekly is to launch an online “contributor network” that is to feature readers as writers, particularly on “TV and eventually other areas […] staff reporters don’t cover deeply.” In other words, anyone can now write for Entertainment Weekly, but they shouldn’t expect a check. Per Digiday: read article

Stan Lee’s Comikaze Expo is Coming October 31

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LB mentor and friend Stan Lee wants us all to know that YouTube Spaces has partnered with Stan and his company, POW! Entertainment for a special screening and panel discussion on Halloween.

The videos in this screening series are the “best of” results from the “World of Superheroes” program YouTube Spaces, Stan, and POW! hosted last summer in L.A., N.Y., Tokyo, London, and Sao Paulo, where creators were given an original superhero’s lair set, costume designers, visual effects artists, stunt coordinators, and a flying rig to bring their big ideas to life. read article

Web Series: COMPUTER SHOW

It’s 1983, and your local PBS station is doing its best to teach you all about the wonders of the computer age. Not that the computer age has arrived yet…but according to this very funny satire, it will:

See all the episodes HERE