Cartoon: Performance-Enhancing Drugs for Writers

Grant Snider gets us high…again!

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Felicia Day’s Geek & Sundry Sets 3 New Series

This may seem like just another showbiz P.R. announcement, but it’s much more than that. Can anybody guess why?

Felicia is famous!
Felicia is famous!

The actress-producer’s YouTube Channel has also renewed “TableTop” and “Space Janitors” for additional runs
by Lesley Goldberg

Felicia Day’s Geek & Sundry has renewed two series for additional runs and picked up three new series.

The web sensation’s production company and YouTube Channel has renewed TableTop and Space Janitors and announced an April 1 start date for new shows Felicia’s Ark, Fetch Quest and The Player Ones. read article

Amazon Studios is Shafting the Little Guyz

Uh-oh, don't get your hopes up. Gulp.
Uh-oh, don’t get your hopes up. Gulp.

…At least, so point the signs.

The in-house Amazon.Com production company originally intended to give new writers/directors/producers/et al a shot by developing online series for Prime Instant Video announced yesterday that it was greenlighting a pilot for ZOMBIELAND, based on the 2009 Columbia Pictures film of the same name and staffed by the original creative team, including writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick.

ZOMBIELAND joins 12 other pilots produced by established Industry types which will be shown on Amazon Prime so viewers, referred to by Amazon Studios boss Roy Price as “customers,” (hey, that’s a much more honest way to talk about it) can choose which shows they want to become series. read article

Confessions of a Television Executive

We don’t know David Marko, but we want to. And we think that after you read this you will too:

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Drawing Blanks
by David Marko

I’ve kept this secret for a long time.  It’s more of an embarrassment than a secret, I suppose, shameful to me and to my beloved profession.  Creative executives in every medium get a bad rap because a few bad apples spoil the barrel.  I didn’t want my stink added to the stench. read article

The CW Season Finale Schedule 2013

Sorry, but there’s only one show we care about on The CW. (And that not very much.)

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Wednesday, May 15
8 p.m. Arrow (CW)