Month: September 2018

Endeavor Audio has Launched to Bring Audio Drama to the Big Leagues

Speaking of audio drama (and comedy) series, as we often do – check out PEOPLE’S PILOT 2018 and see – looks like TVWriter™ isn’t the only place fiction podcasting is being taken seriously. One of Hollywood’s largest talent and packaging agencies has swept into the field. Deadline.Com has the scoop:

by Patrick Hipes

Endeavor has launched Endeavor Audio, with the aim to jump into the growing podcast market via content development, financing, production, distribution, marketing and monetization. The new brand has partnered with several companies in the space at kickoff, including with Dick Wolf and Wolf Entertainment to produce dramatized podcasts in the crime genre developed by Wolf and Magical Elves’ Dan Cutforth and Jane Lipsitz. read article

CYLONS, DAGGITS, AND THE SEARCH FOR EARTH: REMEMBERING “BATTLESTAR GALACTICA” ON ITS 40TH ANNIVERSARY

Whoa, this one almost got away from us. Yesterday was the 40th anniversary of the original version of BattleStar Galactica, and The Digital Bits website presented a very thorough analysis and discussion of the series and its place in TV history.

The reason we know about this is that our illustrious Contributing Editor Emeritus, Herbie J Pilato, was a big part of the article…which is also one of the reasons we want to share it with you.

And with that in mind, heeere we go: read article

Larry Brody: Live! From Paradise! #12 – ‘St. Louis Blues’

THE USUAL NOTE FROM LB: From the summer of 2002 to  the spring of 2010, Gwen the Beautiful and I were the proud and often exhausted owners of a beautiful Ozarks property we called Cloud Creek Ranch.

In many ways, the ranch was paradise. But it was a paradise with a price that started going up before we even knew it existed. Here’s another Monday musing about our adventure and the lessons we learned.

Oh, and if y’all detect any irony, please believe me when I say it comes straight from the universe and not your kindly Uncle Larry B. read article

Peggy Bechko on Paring Down Your Prose

by Peggy Bechko

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Attention spans appear to be peaking…or is that guttering? Whatever, fact of the matter is we writers have to pay very close attention to what we’re writing and to creating white space.

Wait, you say, that may well apply to screenwriters, but surely not to novelists?!

Um, both. read article

Most Viewed TVWriter™ Posts of the Week – Sept. 17, 2018

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

‘Designing Women’ Creator Goes Public With Les Moonves War: Not All Harassment Is Sexual read article