Month: June 2018

Art is an imperfect catharsis

Author Nathan Bransford of How to Write a Novel and Jacob Wonderbar fame has been thinking about recent events many of us may want to forget. But if anything is worth remembering it’s this look into the arts, and artists, and our world of pain:

We’re so glad we saw this extraordinary image at podwabbit.com

by Nathan Bransford

My heart is incredibly heavy this week with the suicides of Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain, and the ongoing poisoning of our shared culture by people who see more to gain in distracting us with hate than in inspiring love.

This is a moment in history that seems designed to bring out the worst in all of us, rather than the best. read article

‘Latvia: Europe’s Nation of Introverts’

Latvians are often self-deprecating about their culture’s tendency towards introversion, but could this personality trait be the key to their creative identity?

LB’s NOTE: I fully intended to have another post about tips for PEOPLE’S PILOT 2018 entrants today, but a funny thing happened on my way to my keyboard: The Brodys got a new puppy.

More likely than not, considering how popular dogs are in the Western world. (I hear they’re popular in the East as well, but not necessarily as friends or pets…) you know what that does to the best of intentions.

It’s – Layla, Queen of Digestive Services. Oh yeah!

Right – it turns them into grist for the real purpose of puppy owning life: Cleaning up pee and poo. So instead of writing anything, here I am, hysterically living the life (read, “breaking in the pooper scooper and buying newspapers by the half ton”  for the adorable little creature on the left. read article

Meltdown on Set of South African Epic Series – Wow!

If you’ve been feeling sorry for yourself because your showbiz career isn’t going quite the way you want it to, we bring you this little news nugget in the hope that it will brighten your day.

Assuming, of course, that seeing a huge professional TV series staffed by major pros implode can be a day-brightener. In other words, we’ll understand if you pretend not to feel better about your own lot after  you read this news report from South Africa:

Don’t complain to us, folks. This is the pic that originally ran with this news story!

by Charl Blignaut – City Press

Johannesburg – It has been a week of high drama behind the scenes of an epic new Zulu historical series called Uselwa, which is intended for broadcast on SABC1 towards the end of the year. read article

Most Viewed TVWriter™ Posts of the Week – June 18, 2018

Time for TVWriter™’s Monday look at our most popular blog posts of the week ending yesterday. They are:

Indie Video & Film: ‘Division’ read article

Herbie J Pilato’s ‘Now & Then’ Sizzle Reel

From almost the very beginning of TVWriter™, Herbie J Pilato has been part of our family. In fact, Herbie J was our first Contributing Editor.

For the last year and a half or so, Herbie J’s appearances on this site have been far too few because he has been working on his own TV series. We’re hoping to get him to give us the inside scoop on the process, but until we can corral him (as in tie him up and sit him down with his hands to the keyboard and his feet to the fire), here’s a little bit showbiz insider-ness, a sampling of several already shot episodes that, in keeping with the metaphor above is known to insiders as:

Herbie J Pilato’s Now & Then Sizzle Reel read article