Month: July 2018

Welcome to Hollywood’s Age of Anxiety

Feeling a tad insecure these days, bunky? You aren’t alone. Stress has become the name of the game everywhere, and showbiz is no exception:

by Stephen Galloway

In mid-December, Adi Shankar boarded a plane at Los Angeles International Airport, ready to embark on the two-day journey to Bangalore, India. He was agitated and unable to sit still. An undefined sense of dread was consuming the 33-year-old producer, a feeling of fear and uncertainty that seemed to grow ever worse the better he did professionally. With credits such as 2012’s Dredd and the current Netflix series Castlevania, he’d become successful, but he couldn’t sleep, couldn’t think straight; in tip-top shape physically, thanks to a grueling exercise regimen and hyper-nutritious diet, he was functioning in a mental fog. read article

Stop What You’re Doing & Spend an Hour with Paul McCartney

The real Paul McCartney or an amazingly lucky – and talented – lookalike?

We interrupt our regularly scheduled dose of TV writing related material to bring you this very important cultural artifact.

Yeppers, we’re talking about yesterday’s video interview with Paul McCartney. Not sure what he wanted it to be, but for us it’s a clear and concise backgrounder on how today’s entertainment scene came to be.

Regardless of your age, and whether or not McCartney and the Beatles mean anything to your current consciousness, watch this and you’ll have a much better understanding of where you came from. read article

Interview with The Creators of Grosse Misconduct – Colby Ryan & Anne Schroeder – Part I

by Kathryn Graham

These two talented hyphenates (actor-writer-producers), Colby Ryan (who plays Mitch) and Anne Schroeder (who plays Sarah), told me all about their new web series: Grosse Misconduct. It’s a dramatic and absurd workplace comedy that focuses on the HR department and features two leading LGBTQ characters! We discussed their writing process and how actors are getting into the writing/producing game (so you non-acting writers have no excuses!)

Kate: Are you both actors first and foremost? Or do you consider yourselves actors and writers in equal measure? read article

Dealing With Fear And Loathing In The Writer’s Room

What’s that? You think that the most stressful environment you’ve ever been in was the high school cafeteria at noon? Sorry, gang, but, truth to tell, the anxiety level there was nothing compared to…

THE WRITERS ROOM!?!?!?

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Coming to Your Home Theater Soon

Starting last weekend, a hell of a lot of bandwidth has been eaten up by articles/posts/stories about San Diego Comic-Con 2018 and what the various presentations coming from it have to say about the shows and films coming our way within the next year.

The way TVWriter™ looks at it, all that verbiage seems like a highly inefficient waste when the selfsame Comic-Con 2018 is also pumping gigabyte after gigabyte of what used to be called “coming attractions” so we can actually watch instead of having to read.

So, in the name of passive audiences everywhere, we’re proud to bring you: read article