Showbiz Gig: Current Series Manager @ DreamWorks TV

This TVWriter™ minion has an admission to make. I have no idea what the job we’re about to show you really entails, but given the employer and the, well, “genre” it’s in, I’d take it in a minute. (So y’all better act fast!)

There’s more, of course, and you can read it all at MediaBistro.Com HERE read article

Web Series: ‘An Emmy For Megan’

Megan Amram proves she’ll do whatever it takes to accomplish her life-long dream of winning an Emmy.

Okay. So…

After finding out about Megan Amram’s new new web series (just scroll on down or CLICK HERE and you’ll see what we’re talking about), we just had, had, had to see it.

And so, of course, do you. So here’s Episode 1: read article

From Highly Acclaimed Network TV Series Writer to Web Series Creator…?

Isn’t it supposed to be the other way around?

Megan Amram

by Pete Keeley

“I really just thought that it was my time to transition into a multihyphenate, out of a single hyphenate,” says the heretofore writer-comedian about her bold play for the outstanding actress in a short-form comedy or drama Emmy.

[This story contains spoilers from the web series An Emmy for Megan.] read article

It’s Apu Screenwriting Test Time!

Adi Shankar showrunner of The Simpsons is so eager to find a new direction in which to take the Apu character after all the hooting and hollering about, well, about racism and everything that ugly topic brings to mind, that he has started a writing contest to help find a new approach to an old and now much-maligned fave…and maybe give some lucky so-far unknown writer a big boost along the way.

Pretty darn good idea, yeah? Here’s the scoop:

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Writers Guild of America West May 2018 Calendar

Knowing what’s going on in the Writers Guild can be helpful in many, many ways, even if you aren’t a member. So, for your edification:

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