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Peer Production: Death of the Firstborn Egyptians

A creator worth watching: Nina Paley
A creator worth watching: Nina Paley

One of the most important things about interweb video is that when you do something independently, which is what peer production is all about, you don’t have to answer to anyone’s taste but your own. Oh, sure, it’s good to collaborate and work with a team you love, but when you’re working for love nobody should be able to force anything down anybody else’s throat.

What brings this to our TVWriter™ hive mind is the following video by Nina Paley. Which is, simply – stunning visual art:

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Love & Money Dept – TV Writing Deals for 10/27/14

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Latest News About Writers Who Are Doing Better Than We Are=&0=& (90210) are writing an ABC comedy pilot called BOOKCLUB, about “four female friends who escape the pressures and responsibilities of adult life by pretending to be a book club.” (What I want to know is why anybody would pretend to be something that nobody in today’s culture has ever heard of. Book club? Book club? WTF? Oy oy oy!) =&1=& (I HATE MY TEENAGE DAUGHTERS) are writing the pilot for NBC’s untitled comedy centered on absolutely nothing that anybody involved will reveal. (Think that could be cuz they don’t &#%! know? All together now, what’s the word for today? “MARKETING,” kids, right!)

That’s it for now. Write in and tell munchilito what you’ve sold today. TVWriter™ can’t wait to brag to all your friends. (And, more importantly, enemies. Hehehe….)

Talk About Shiny: 1st Look at FIREFLY: THE GAME

Yesterday we brought a blast from the past of the Buffyverse. Now we’re going full Whedon with this:

Is this really what the box will look like? We dunno, but who the hell cares? It's MAL!
Is this really what the box will look like? We dunno, but who the hell cares? It’s MAL!

Now this is how we like to start a Sunday!

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TVWriter™ Top Posts for the Week Ending 10/24/14

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Here they are, the most viewed TVWriter™ posts during the past week:

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Love & Money Dept – TV Writing Deals for 10/23/14

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Latest News About Writers Who Are Doing Better Than We Are
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  • Joe Robert Cole (movie guy who wrote a script for a film based on Marvel’s THE INHUMANS so yer friendly State Farm Insurance Agent munchman’s gotta love him) is writing the pilot for a CBS cop show about a black L.A. cop who’s a Republican. (Well, hey now, kids, that’s what it sez here, and if that’s enough to sell a series to CBS, well, we’d all better get over there and pitch before their D-peeps take the needles out of their arms.)
  • Paul Downs Colaizzo (a genuine New York playwright!) is writing a CBS pilot about “New York City’s wildest and most brilliant doctors as they start their second year of residency in the city’s most prestigious hospital.” (Wow, did you hear all those buzzwords? This show has everything TV shows are supposed to have – and absolutely nothing to do with reality. Looks like CBS has another hit coming. Did I say “wow” already? Cuz…wow!)
  • Mark Heyman (BLACK SWAN) is writing an adaptation of George Pendle‘s book, Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life Of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside  for AMC. (Speaking of “wow,” do you suppose they’re going to stick with the book’s title? Cuz if they do…”Wow!” Oh, no wait, I mean, “Woe.” Ouch. Hey, they can’t all be winners. Time to move on to:)
  • Scott Silveri & Shana Goldberg-Meehan (FRIENDS) have a new comedy in development at NBC about “an uptight family man and his boomer parents who are attacking their golden years like it’s spring break.” (No letter pleeze, asking who the hell loves this junk enough to pay most people’s yearly salary for just one script on the subject. If I knew that answer I’d be one of them…so maybe it’s just as well that I don’t?)

That’s it for now. Write in and tell munchilito what you’ve sold today. TVWriter™ can’t wait to brag to all your friends. (And, more importantly, enemies. Hehehe….)