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.

Comedy Great Ken Levine Wrote a Book

…and we think you should buy it.

My new book is now available in paperback

Okay, all of you who said you’d wait for the paperback when the Kindle came out, now’s your chance to make good. Please go here to order. Many thanks. And of course the Kindle version is still available right here.
Seriously, it would make a great Father’s Day gift and if you order now you’ll have it in plenty of time.  Trust me, Dad doesn’t want a brunch.  He wants THIS.

SWIMMING WITH SHARKS

by Larry Brody

Still the most insightful, most accurate, and just plain best film ever made about the showbiz I know, with Kevin Spacey doing Jay Bernstein better than even Jay could.

And now I find out it was a play? In London?

With Christian Slater, Matt Smith, Arthur Darvill, and Helen Baxendale? read article

Ooh, You Really Love Us

Everything’s fixed now, but TVWriter™ was offline for a few hours Friday night and Saturday morning because we “exceeded [our] allowed bandwidth.” This is the first time in 15 years that’s happened.

Thanks for responding so well to the re-design.

We love you too. read article

First Look at BULLET IN THE FACE

We Dare You to Turn Your Head Away from this Trailer


And that’s just a short sample of what happens when a network lets a strong, talented writer-producer do his thing.

BULLET IN THE FACE debuts August 16th & 17th at 10 pm Eastern/Pacific time with three back to back half-hour episodes on IFC.

Yes, this is an unabashed plug for BULLET IN THE FACE creator and TVWriter™ fave Alan Spencer, without whose classic comedy series SLEDGEHAMMER (our favorite MIKE HAMMER “homage”) all of Adult Swim wouldn’t exist. read article

TVWriter™ Post of the Week


As determined by, hmm, us.

Because we can.

(We had a whole “somebody has to be the gatekeeper” explanation/argument ready and then remembered that we’re all anti-gatekeeper, and anti-hypocrisy. So it would’ve been bullshit anyway.) read article