Gotta love the way the folks at Vulture.Com think. Oh, and we like the pic a lot too:
Has NBC Passed the Point of No Return?
by Josef Adalian
It’s impossible to exaggerate just how bad a 2013 NBC is having. Over the last four weeks, the network has debuted three new series (1600 Penn, Deception,Do No Harm) and watched as viewers rejected each of them. New Tuesday comedies Go On and The New Normal, which seemed to be finding an audience in the fall, have seen their demo ratings cut nearly in half since losing their lead-in of The Voice. And then there’s Smash, which NBC Entertainment chairman Bob Greenblatt last summer called “an unqualified success” and top lieutenant Jen Salke labeled “highly anticipated by its fans”: It returned this week down nearly 40 percent from its May 2012 finale, and more than 70 percent versus its premiere a year ago. In less than 30 days, whatever slow momentum NBC seemed to be building since Greenblatt’s January 2011 arrival has almost completely vanished. Once again, NBC seems destined to finish the season an also-ran, just as it has every year since Friends went away in 2004. It’s time to ask the question: Is it possible to save NBC, or has it passed the point of no return?
ORPHAN BLACK is Coming to BBC America March 30th
…And the trailer of this show is just plain awesome:
Getcher Animated Script Fix Here
JOHN OSTRANDER: Story Telling
In which the writer behind Grimjack, one of the finest anti-heroes in comics, gives up a few of his writerly secrets so that we can run wild with our own stories too.
by John Ostrander (ComicMix.Com)
I love stories. I love reading stories, I love hearing stories, I love telling stories.
Virginia Woolf on the Creative Benefits of Keeping a Diary
Whoa…and we didn’t even know Virginia Woolf was real!
by Maria Popova
Literary icon Virginia Woolf, born on this day in 1882, was not only a masterful letter-writer and little-known children’s book author, but also a dedicated diarist on par with Susan Sontag andAnaïs Nin. A fairly late journaling bloomer, she began writing in 1915, at the age of 33, and continued until her last entry in 1941, four days before her death, leaving behind 26 volumes written in her own hand. More than a mere tool of self-exploration, however, Woolf approached the diary as a kind of R&D lab for her craft. As her husband observes in the introduction to her collected journals, A Writer’s Diary (UK; public library), Woolf’s journaling was “a method of practicing or trying out the art of writing.”