Success as a TV creative means more than just knowing how to write. It also means knowing what to do with your creations, which starts with deciding whom to take them to.
Right now, it’s looking more and more like Netflix is the in, hip, and trendy TV place. Because there can be no question that Netflix is out to be the largest supplier of TV and film product in our corner of the universe – and perhaps beyond:
“I’m a writer,” you say. “Why do I need to know a bunch of legal mumbo jumbo?”
The answer, in the proverbial nutshell, is: “Because if you don’t know how to protect yourself from the very beginning, you’re gonna get screwed.”
Here’s what we’re talking about:
Time now for another perspective on a not-so-little series called You, which not only has become a streaming TV giant, it also catapulted last week’s TVWriter™ article called From the Cable Graveyard to Netflix Darling: Something Amazing Happened to ‘YOU’ to the top of our list of visitors’ fave posts.
Here’s the skinny:
In other words, this one’s for everybody…because eventually everybody falls under the Doctor’s spell, one way – and one Doctor – or another:
With “Resolution” done and dusted, we are officially all out of Doctor Who on television until 2020. Whovians are pretty used to waiting huge lengths of time to see new episodes—like, say, that 16-year gap after the show was cancelled—but if you’re aching to get something Who in your brain, the perfect opportunity lies ahead of you: audio dramas.
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.