…And in our opinion, it already was the best show on TV. Even if it’s actually on CBS All Access, which means it’s really a full-length web series.
Hmm, who would’ve predicted that particular Great Thing, like, five years ago?
Month: March 2019
The Staff Of Gimlet Media Is Unionizing
The following article is one of those news items that doesn’t seem to mean much at the time but which will – TVWriter™ predicts! – be seen as a portent of the future in, you know, the future.
In other words, this is “The One Where the Writers Guild of America Recognizes, Accepts, and Opens Its Arms Wide to Audio Writers!” Wonder how much the writing minimums are going to be.
by Caroline O’Donovan
The 83-person staff of Gimlet Media, a podcasting startup acquired by music streaming service Spotify for $230 million in February, is unionizing with the Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE).
Writer-Creator of ‘The Wire,’ David Simon, Speaks Out About What’s Wrong with Agency Packaging
Yeppers, kids, this is another post derived from the current contretemps between the Writers Guild of America and the Association of Talent Agencies.
We’re bringing it to you because you and all of us at TVWriter™ are writers with a huge stake in the outcome of this negotiation. Read and learn, and it’s okay with us if, while learning, you also get angry. David Simon sure as hell is:
Gerry Conway on Today’s Headlines (and the Writing Thereof)
by Gerry Conway
Let’s take a moment to think about how unusual it is that this balls-related headline from a major national magazine isn’t all that unusual these days.
Anyone who’s heard me crack wise inappropriately knows I’m no stranger to jokes my mother would have thought were in terrible “bad taste,” so I’m not saying I’m shocked or find balls-related humor offensive. On the contrary, I think the image conjured by that headline is hilarious. But seriously…can you imagine the Vanity Fair of ten years ago, or even five years ago, running a headline like that on its online site?
Cable and Satellite TV Plunge Continues
Another acknowledgement that online streaming is the future of entertainment. Dunno about you, but we love it when an a tech site gets all excited about the same things that send us over the top:
by Jon Brodkin
Cord cutting continued at a steady rate in 2018, as cable and satellite TV providers in the United States lost more than 3 million video subscribers, a new report from Leichtman Research Group said.