Time now to once again play Answer Man. Today’s question is on a topic that’s broken many a writer’s heart…including, yes, my own.
Thanks to Edye P. for having the special kind of courage it took to bring this up:
I’ve been writing for a couple of years now, long enough to have an agent and specs she’s proud to send out.
Um, sorry. Watched all the previews. Nothin’ there for me.
Don’t worry, Les Moonves. I really like where you’re taking NCIS:
A Moment Alone for Abby & Gibbs?
For awhile anyway.
And, yeah, I do have some concerns. Mainly that Michael J. Fox’s new show is going to make me cry too much (for him) while I laugh.
And, just between us, I was one of the writers of the original version of IRONSIDE, and this ain’t IRONSIDE. It’s more LUTHER IN A WHEELCHAIR. (Which, come to think of it, could be better.)
BROOKLYN NINE-NINE made me laugh too (even with Andy Samberg).
How do they look to you?
Two weeks ago I answered the question, “Should I go to grad school or to L.A. as the next step to getting into the TV writing biz?”
And I followed that last week with the first part of the answer to a related query, “Why do you hate television writing programs so much?”
I said then that “my personal experience so far is that only about 20% of the programs meet my criteria” and went on and on about my one positive experience in the college TV writing arena, when I taught TV and film writing at The College of Santa Fe twenty – yikes! – years ago.