You don’t believe us? Read, baby, read:
Lifetime has ordered the drama pilots The Secret Lives of Wives (working title) and Witches of East End for 2013, it was announced today by Rob Sharenow, Executive Vice President, Programming, of Lifetime Networks.
Sorkin Cleaning the “Newsroom”
by Soo Youn
Aaron Sorkin has been doing press all week defending his critically-panned HBO show, “The Newsroom,” but behind the scenes he’s cleaning house.
Most of the writers on the cable drama about a Keith Olbermann-type television news demagogue have been fired, sources with knowledge of the show told The Daily. “They’re not coming back, except for Sorkin’s ex-girlfriend [Corinne Kinsbury],” one source said.
The show was renewed early for a second season and it’s unclear how many writers will replace the departing staff.
We like to think of her as the Anti-Zooey (Deschanel). But it turns out there’s much, much more going on here:
Zoe Kazan, ‘Ruby Sparks’ Writer & Star: ‘Quirky’ Means Nothing
by Christopher RosenFor her screenwriting debut, actress Zoe Kazan wrote what she knew: A story about the writing process.
At last!
Sorry I’ve been away, but it’s been just too hot out to do much traveling. Take it on my authority that New York City has been like the surface of Venus for the past few weeks.
Saluting our own:
Emmy Award-winning writer and comedian Tom Davis passed away today from throat and neck cancer in his home in Hudson, NY
by Alison WillmoreOne of the original writers for “Saturday Night Live” when it premiered in 1975, Davis formed the comedy team “Franken & Davis” with Al Franken when the two were still in high school in Minneapolis. When the pair were first hired at SNL, Lorne Michaels negotiated for them to split a single writer’s salary of $350 per week. In addition to their years of writing and creating famous characters on the comedy institution, they also sometimes performed together on air in sketches like “The Brain Tumor Comedian.” Off air, they cowrote the 1986 film “One More Saturday Night.”