Latest News About Writers Who Are Doing Better Than We Are=&0=& (COVERT AFFAIRS) is developing a TNT drama series called SIX about “the aftermath of a Category 6 tornado that obliterates the majority of a small Kansas town and unearths years of horrific secrets.” But it’ll undoubtedly leave out the most horrific secret of all: How the hell TNT ever bought this.)
Eoghan O’Donnell (TEEN WOLF) is writing the pilot for THE MESSENGERS, a CW science fiction series about people who turn into “angels of the coming Apocalypse.” (Teenage angels, we bet cuz…the CW.)
Ligiah Villalobos (she’s a household word in our house) is writing an NBC pilot for LOTERIA, a Spanish-language series about in-fighting in a wealthy Mexican-American family. (We’re thinking that the purpose of this show is to make all non-wealthy Mexican-Americans – and anybody else who watches but isn’t a zillionaire – feel like caca, but what do we know?)
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Merry Christmas from TVWriter™!
It’s Christmas, dammit, and we’re taking the day off. Our first day off in over a decade.
So enjoy this pic and the post and our warm holiday thoughts cuz that’s all you’re gonna get till tomorrow, when we’ll be back with more year-end TV writing, um, cheer.
Amazon Wants to Help Writers With Their Outlines
…By giving us, absolutely free out of the kindness of its otherwise greedy little heart a wonderful new tool called Amazon Storybuilder, which creates little virtual notecards and a virtual “corkboard” on which we can eagerly create beatsheets of our narratives.
After which we can merrily festoon said beatsheets with notes, images, tags, etc. And, of course, access our work from our desktop PC, tablet, or smartphone “whenever inspiration strikes.”
Thank you, Oh mighty Amazon, for coming to our aid. Now if we only had this “inspiration” of which you speak…
Love & Money Dept – TV Writing Deals for 12/23/13
Latest News About Writers Who Are Doing Better Than We Are
- David Spade (?!) & Dean Lorey (THE CRAZY ONES) are developing a comedy series about a rock and roll music manager struggling to stay at the top for HBO. (There are any number of ways this kind of premise can go south, but the first one says it all: It’s going to star David Spade.)
- Brian Stelter‘s book Top of the Morning, a behind-the-scenes about TV morning news shows, is being developed into a movie for Lifetime. (Which means that we don’t need to say anything further about this project except: It’s being developed into a movie for Lifetime.)
- Scott Gold (UNDER THE DOME) is developing a drama series about the NRA called COLD DEAD HANDS for the Sundance Channel. (Even our new puppy knows all the ways this premise could tank, so let’s just go with the primary one: It’s about the NRA.)
- Nick Bilton’s book about the development of Twitter, cleverly called Hatching Twitter is being turned into a TV series by Lionsgate, whose press release makes no mention of that crazy little necessity called a buyer for said show. (You may be asking yourself how this idea could possibly go wrong. To which we reply: It’s about Twitter! And the only people in the galaxy who care about Twitter are those who spend all their time tweeting, not watching, you know, TV. Sheesh.)
- David Koechner (SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE) is writing a sketch comedy pilot for NBC. (All together now, kids: The reason this one will go wrong, wrong, wrong is…yeppers, you got it – NBC! Anybody out there miss this answer? We didn’t think so.)
Binge Watching Is The New Normal For TV Streamers
by Team TVWriter™ Press Service
So sayeth Netflix. And Deadline. And…for what it’s worth, TVWriter™. Here’s the skinny:
Harris Interactive conducted a poll of nearly 1,500 TV streamers (online U.S. adults who stream TV shows at least once a week) on behalf of Netflix and found that 61% among that group binge regularly — and feel good about it. 73% defined binge watching as watching between 2-6 episodes of the same TV show in one sitting. And nearly three quarters of TV streamers say they have positive feelings towards binge streaming TV.
“Our viewing data shows that the majority of streamers would actually prefer to have a whole season of a show available to watch at their own pace,” said Ted Sarandos, Chief Content Officer of Netflix. 76% of TV streamers say watching multiple episodes of a great TV show is a welcome escape from their busy lives. 79% said watching several episodes of their favorite shows at once actually makes the shows more enjoyable. And three-quarters (76%) also say streaming TV shows on their own schedule is their preferred way to watch them.