Category: By Larry Brody

LB Sees COPPER

The Good:

  • Well written, well directed, with real-sounding (if mannered) dialog, just as you would expect from a series run by HOMICIDE and OZ’s Tom Fontana)
  • Strongly evokes the time and place
  • Earnest and filled with a concern for justice, social as well as legal

The Not-So-Good: read article

Even the Writers Guild Understands How Important Contests Have Become

…Especially for TV writers:

I got the above email yesterday and really was amazed that the WGAw has actually been holding a contest – for members only – for four years. It took me completely by surprise. read article

LB Sees SUITS (and Also BOB AND RAY)

The Good:

  • When this series began it was an interesting series about a genius drug dealer who knew the law so well that he successfully did all the work his lazy lawyer “partner” was supposed to do in intriguing criminal and semi-criminal cases
  • Good looking actors, both men and women, in even better looking clothes

The Not-So-Good: read article

Whoa, Kinda Looks Like the DISH CEO is an…Well, How Does ‘Arrogant Putz’ Sound?

Saw this on The Consumerist, a – maybe the – top consumer protection side on the web. Not a healthy way to start the day:

Know Your Enemy Dept. Meet Dish Boss Charlie Ergen

Dish CEO Says His Customers Don’t Watch AMC Because “They Live In Farms & Ranches” – by Chris Morran

To all you Dish subscribers who have to go over to your friends’ houses to watch Breaking Bad because you no longer have AMC, the satellite service’s CEO has a message for you: Stop complaining and don’t watch good TV, because he never has. read article

LB: Billy Crystal is Getting $4 mil to Write a Book on Aging

All I can say is that it’d better be a lot funnier than I’m finding the actual fact of aging to be.

Billy today

A whole lot.

Billy the day after tomorrow

Okay, that’s pretty funny. read article