The Good:
- Spot on, as true-to-life as mass entertainment has ever gotten
- All those inspiring ROCKY allusions
- This is the greatest argument ever made on television for not going into any business that has to do with showbiz
The Not-So-Good:
Category: By Larry Brody
Not Inspector Spacetime AKA Not Doctor Who AKA Travis Richey’s First Episode is Up and Running
If you’re a COMMUNITY fan and/or a DOCTOR WHO fan, you’ll love this Travis Richey-created web series startlingly similar to the series within a series on the show. A series within a series that is, itself, startlingly similar to a certain 49+ year old BBC space/time traveling show.
And here’s a little “making of” video to go with the little video above:
Rural America Looks at TV
This article was written by a colleague of mine back in the day when I wrote a weekly column on the wonderfulness of being a city writer leading the country life. Live! From Paradise! was one of the most enjoyable gigs in my writing career, and I was crushed when Gannett Newspapers decided that Live! From Paradise Sound!, which would have been a continuation of the column about life in a small town in the Pacific Northwest didn’t float their boat.
Sonny Garrett, however, remains a highlight of newspaper writing and editing in the South. And even though he canned me, I’m a big fan, especially when he writes something like this, which proves to me with absolute certainty that he’s been reading my mind:
Sonny Garrett’s Odds & Ends: Must-see TV? Not in your wildest imagination
LB: Peggy Bechko Writes About Writing
My friend, the novelist Peggy Bechko has one of the most helpful blogs for new writers on the web, especially writers of fiction. I apologize for not recommending it till now, but I let way too much time slide between my last visit and one I paid today.
Here’s a sample:
Writing, Writer & The Writer’s Life – by Peggy Bechko
LB: TVWRITER UNIVERSITY Update for September 2012
Time now to reach out to everyone about what’s happening with the TVWriter™ Online Workshops. No time to waste, so:
I’m hoping to hold the Basic Online TV and Film Writing Workshop in October, which, yep, is next month.
The 8-week long (one meeting a week) TVWriter.Com Basic Online Workshop covers just that, the basics of TV (and film!) writing, from how to present your idea via loglines and leavebehinds, to character creation and story structure, to the writing of the 1st draft and revisions. We do this via my book (here comes the pitch) Television Writing from the Inside Out,weekly writing exercises, and of course weekly video (and text if you don’t want to do video) chat meetings.