Author: LB

A legendary figure in the television writing and production world with a career going back to the late ’60s, Larry Brody has written and produced hundreds of hours of American and worldwide television and is a consultant to production companies and networks in the U.S. and abroad . Shows written or produced by Brody have won several awards including - yes, it's true - Emmys, Writers Guild Awards, and the Humanitas Award.

Even Bigshot Writers Get Rejected Dept

Man, this bugs us!

In a recent article in the U.K.-based Telegraph, Russell T. Davies, the man who brought us the 21st Century DOCTOR WHO, creating not just a fan fave but the biggest cash cow in BBC telly history, explains why he moved to the U.S. and then returned recently to the U.K. and also fills us in on his part in upcoming DOCTOR WHO 50th anniversary festivities: read article

LB: TVWriter™ Passed a Milestone Last Weekend

TVWriter™, which started way back in 1997 as “The TV Writer Home Page,” passed a milestone last week: Our 1000th blog post in our current format, which began on June 1, 2012.

Supplementing our basic How-To Write This, That and the Other Thing page content, we’ve blogged about a lot of topics over the past 5 months, including announcements about the various TVWriter™ contests (that’s the People’s Pilot and Spec Scriptacular to be specific) and classes (TVWriter University, natch), interviews with showrunners, advice to future sitcom writers, various peer-produced/user-generated web series, why Charlie Sheen rocks, DOCTOR WHO (and the Doctor Who Puppet), Louis C.K,. writing and productivity tips up the wazoo, TV series reviews, everything the minions and I could think of that would make life better/more fulfilling/easier/more entertaining for writers, aspiring writers, and fans. read article

LB: Congrats, Creative Bros & Sisters, These Guys Say We’re All Nuts

Back in college, my parents made me visit a psychologist because they wanted me to get along better with others. During the first session, after she and I had talked for awhile she started writing away on her notepad.

When I asked what she was writing, the psychologist said, “My diagnosis.”

“Already? How can you do that so soon?” I said. read article

LB: Comic Books on the Newsstand When I was Born

Because what could be more important for any writer than this:

To be precise, these are just some of the comics on the sales racks in the month/year I was born. But the reason it’s only some is because this is all I could screen capture. Every single other comic also popped right up on the page. read article

The Hudsonian Sees PARTNERS

by Josh Hudson

This new CBS comedy originally aired on September 24, 2012. Considering the time slot, it was a rather dismal ratings performance. Much like the acting and the writing.

4 people, 3 couples. That’s the unofficial tagline of this show. If you can’t read between the lines, I’ll translate: read article