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The UK has its TV Writing Giants Too

We just don’t hear much about them. Till it’s too late. TVWriter™ pays its respects to Bob Larbey:

Bob-Larbeyfrom Irish Independent

BOB Larbey enjoyed 30 years as half of one of television’s most successful sitcom-writing partnerships. He and John Esmonde had their first major hit with Please Sir! (1968-72), set in Fenn Street Secondary Modern School, with John Alderton as Bernard Hedges, the fledgling teacher trying to keep order among the unruly pupils who call him “Privet”.

Larbey and Esmonde switched to a more traditional domestic setting for their other big success, The Good Life (1975-78), but gave it a twist by making one of the two middle-class couples self-sufficient. read article

Been Reading Peggy Bechko Here on TVWriter™? Lovin’ on Her Work?

Doesn't Peggy look writerly as hell here? As well as, you know, romantic?
Doesn’t Peggy look writerly as hell here? As well as, you know, romantic?

Peggy Bechko has been one of the most popular contributors on TVWriter™ since we went to our current format. All you have to do is type her name into the searchbox on the right of this page and you’ll access dozens of her my-t-fine posts about, well, about writing for crying out loud.

In a very real way, Peggy supports all of us who engage with this site  – TVWriter™ visitors, writers, editors, and certainly our Beloved Leader, LB. So we’re thinking that it’s a pretty good idea to return some of that support. Buy her books! Visit her site!

And, for only a little added fee, wear Peggy’s extraordinary work on – heh – your chest: read article

Peer Production: abstract composition 140101

What’s that? You’ve seen this video and don’t think of it as “peer production” at all? It’s just…”art?”

Holy crap, gang, that’s exactly what peer production should be. An unsupervised, unrestrained take on…well, erm, on whatever the hell this is an unsupervised, unrestrained – and to us fascinating – take on:

Love & Money Dept – TV Writing Deals for 4/12/14

Latest News About Writers Who Are Doing Better Than We Are=&0=&(SONS OF ANARCHY) have a new overall deal with HBO, starting with the drama series, YELLOWSTONE about, uh, violence in Montana. (The munchy one has absolutely no interest in Montana, so no way am I going to watch this if it gets on the air. Well, maybe if I get on staff. Yeah, if I’m writing the damn thing I’ll be glad to watch. But only my eps, dudes, cuz that’s how munchies roll.) Steven Knight (LOCKE) is writing an 8-part BBC drama called TABOO, about a 19th century adventurer fighting with the East India Company. (Ooh, man versus corporation. I can hardly wait. What could be better than watching the guy who broke Batman’s back go up against a corporate charter? Thing better be made of some very thick paper!) David Milch has extended his overall deal with HBO. (Evidently cuz HBO thinks that having a hack has-been who’s last decent work was on the air almost a decade ago is preferable to letting anybody new and/or under 60 into the building. The Milchman is gobbling up a piece of the pie that could’ve been yours, mine, or anybody else’s. The only Big Name who’s gone lower than Milchovic is Bruce Springsteen, who now makes his living covering hits recorded by dudes at least a century younger than his botoxed self. Oh, brave new world – why hast thou forsaken us? Or something like that.) End of rant. Buh-bye for now!

TVWriter™ Top Posts for the Week Ending 4/11/14

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

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