Category: By Larry Brody

LB: Interweb Favorites of the, erm, Day

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by Larry Brody

Yes, it’s true. I haven’t been posting much actually written by, um, me, lately. Mostly because of the pressures of moving (ooh, the Brodys finally bought a new house – yay!), health issues (ooh, all gone – yay!), house guests (ooh, still here – yay!), and coming up with the moolah to pay for it all (ooh, also still here – holy crap!) but my personal non-New Year’s resolution is to write more for TVWriter™ so I’m back for as long as you’ll have me.

(No, munchman, the “you” in the above paragraph isn’t you. It’s everyone else, AKA the wonderful visitors to this site.)

I’m a little out of practice, so let’s consider this post a kind of warm-up. Some fun stuff that’ll enable me to slide into tougher subjects in the coming weeks. So, without further ado, I’m going to share some sites/news/articles that have brought broad smiles to my face since the birth of baby 2015: read article

LB: TVWriter™ Online Workshops for January 2015

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This went out to everyone on the TVWriter™ email list yesterday. But since a few of you don’t subscribe (you can fix that HERE), I’m posting it here as well.

And in this version I actually get the year right. read article

LB: TVWriter™ Advanced Workshopper Places 3rd In Terror Film Festival Competition

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Time now for another True Life Testimonial. This time around, it’s from Dawn McElligott, a student in the TVWriter™ Advanced Online Workshop who’s been working on a short film and potential pilot called LADY OF THE LAKE in class.

And there’s no denying it: Reading this email made my day: read article

LB: Glen A. Larson Prolific TV Series Creator RIP

glen a larsonI learned this morning from members of his family that my old frenemy Glen Larson, creator of dozens of classic television series, bon vivant, and, in the words of one of my agents, “evil genius,” died yesterday.

Glen was a complex and, to those of us who spent a lot of time with him, fascinating man. Multi-talented in the true sense of the word, he was a member of the Big Deal early ’60s pop singing group The Four Preps who turned from singing to writing and became the creator (or co-creator), writer-producer of more long-running hit shows than anyone else in the world, before, during or since. We’re talking Alias Smith and Jones, Switch, Quincy, M.E., The Hardy Boys Mysteries, Battlestar Galactica, B. J. and the Bear, The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo, Magnum, P.I., The Fall Guy, Knight Rider, Manimal, Automan, and a passel of others.

I worked with Glen on many of those shows, and the experience was colorful, to say the least. In fact, often it was truly mind-gobbling. Glen was a very controversial figure in his prime, punched by James Garner, sued by several others, richer than Croesus and possibly the unhappiest man I’ve ever known. read article

LB: Goodbye to Sam Hall

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A TV writer I never knew but whose work helped me survive the ’60s died a few weeks ago. His name was Sam Hall, and he was the head writer of DARK SHADOWS.

I’m talking about the real DARK SHADOWS, the gothic daytime serial (that’s “soap opera” to those who probably watched it). Sam Hall wrote more than 300 episodes of the series and was nominated for 5 Daytime Emmys and a Peabody Award during his career.

How did Sam Hall help me survive the ’60s? If you have to ask, you probably won’t understand the answer, but I’ll give it to you anyway: read article