Writers Room Lingo You Need to Know

If you want to get ahead, you have to speak the language. Impress your friends, relatives, rivals, and potential co-workers via this fascinating guide:

The Secret Lingo of the Best TV Writers Rooms
by Dan Reilly

A few weeks ago, Simpsons executive producer Matt Selman tweeted a list of the show’s writers room terminology, explaining how he and his colleagues use terms like “wacky stack” to describe “too much silliness at once”: read article

PJ McIlvaine: The Journey

by PJ McIlvaine

The Journey.

In two words: it sucks. read article

Last Week in Cord Cutting

More cord cutting news for all you crazy, zany refugees from the tyranny of satellite and cable TV, from CordCuttersNews. The central issues this week are Amazon’s New Home Internet Service, Starz Just $5 & More.

You can find Cord Cutters at: read article

Every IndieWire TV Review from 2019, Ranked by Grade from Best to Worst

You like overviews? You want overviews? Great! Cause you’d better believe us when we say THIS is a goddam Overview!

by Steve Greene

There may come a day when the tide of TV programming starts to subside, when networks decide that sheer quantity is not enough t– read article

Larry Brody: Live! From Paradise! #49 – “Two Dreamers”

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