Broadcast TV Faces Another Fall Ratings Decline, But They’re Not Giving Up Yet

We’ll say one thing for the out-of-touch and even more out-of-tune executives of broadcast TV. At least they aren’t giving up.

Now if they could only translate their eagerness to please into something more tangible like, oh, how about some better goddamn WRITING!?

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Re-Editing ‘BoJack Horseman’ – Today’s Lesson in Adapting Your Creative Vision

Keep reading. You’ll see what we mean:

‘BoJack Horseman’ Creator on Re-Editing the Show’s Beginning for Comedy Central and If the Series Is Close to Ending
by Liz Shannon Miller

BoJack Horseman” has been a critical favorite for so long it’s hard to imagine people still are discovering it. But that’s just what happened Wednesday night, as the Netflix animated comedy pulled off an unprecedented move by premiering in syndication on Comedy Central. read article

Universal’s 2019 Writers Program has Opened!

Just a few months ago, we announced the “participants” (read: “winners”) in Universal’s 2018 Writers Program, and whaddaya know? Last week they opened the 2019 version.

Here’s how Cartoon Brew’s Amid Amidi put it: read article

Cartoon: ‘Sunrises’

Grant Snider may well be our favorite poet as well as cartoonist, philosopher, and orthodontist. For example:

This post first appeared on Grant’s website, Incidental Comics.

More of Grant Snider’s extraordinary perception of human creativity at Incidental Comics, HERE

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Web Series: See Episode 2 of ‘My Death Co.’

Last March, we saw the first episode of My Death Co and called it “Possibly the best directed and shot live action web episode we’ve ever seen…and the script ain’t too shabby either.

Last week, the long-awaited (by all of us DeathCo fans at TVWriter™) Episode 2 dropped on the interwebs. It’s every bit as good as the first, and we really think you’ll enjoy what you see: read article