Cartoon: ‘Getting Over’

Time now for another episode of what we here at TVWriter™ sometimes think of as “the Tao of cartoonist-philosopher Grant Snider. What’s that? You don’t get it? Then get over it!

More of Grant Snider’s sensitive perception of humanity and creativity at Incidental Comics, HERE

Cartoon: “Why You Need an iPad Instead of the Morning Paper

Non Sequitur’s Wiley has learned the Meaning of Life

More Non Sequitur is HERE

We’re Not Asking for Perfection, But…

Heard at Art’s Deli back when we all could go to Art’s Deli and hear things:

“If you knew something was wrong with your script, why did you deliver it that way? The words on the page are what count, not the thoughts in your head.” read article

It Takes More than Good Writing to Built a Hit TV Series

A hit TV show needs more than good writing

Anyone remember “the shirtless vicar” on BBC?

UK series Grantchester is an example of how important casting is.

Without original star James Norton aka ‘the shirtless vicar’, the series has skidded to an untimely end.

Herbie J Pilato Remembers the Day Commercial TV was Born

Everything you need to know about the origins of the medium we so love to hate, brought to us by TVWriter™’s masterful television lover, Herbie J Pilato his very self.

July 1, 1941: The Day Commercial Television Was Born
by Herbie J Pilato

Some reports claim television began in 1925.

That’s when John Logie Baird and Charles Francis Jenkins worked independently of one another on both sides of the Atlantic and produced weak and blurry images on a screen no larger than one inch wide. Other documentation said it was 1928, when WGY, Schenectady, began broadcasting three days a week. read article