Category: By TVWriter.Com

Peer Production: NEIL & JOHN IN: THE KEY

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As we said earlier on TVWriter™ today (which means the article is below this one and therefore you won’t read it until later in your perusal of the site cuz…interweb), we’re always thrilled to see new writing opportunities arise.

And right here we have a new version of a slightly older but still cutting edge way of making yourself known – a successful web video that’s attracting big attention for its writer-director, Sherwin Shilati. As in, hey, this thing appearing on FunnyorDie.Com got the talented SOB a pretty good agent. (Big anyway. And that’s always good, right? Huh? Tell us…please?)

TVWriter™ Top Posts for the Week Ending 11/15/13

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

Kathy Sees Iron Man 3 read article

What Should We Expect from Comedy Central in the Months to Come?

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We’re glad you asked. What? You didn’t? Of course you did. Cuz let’s face it. Until the New Paradigm (i.e., the get everything you want, when you want it, from where you want it and then watch it whenever and wherever you want to watch it way of doing business), Comedy Central is for many of us the absolute saving grace of contemporary cable TV.

Which is why we’re gonna tell you – in Comedy Central’s own words, of course since this is a cobbling together of a couple of their press releases – what CC is up to, both development and scheduling-wise.

Take it away, highly paid press agent writer types: read article

Love & Money Dept – TV Writing Deals for 11/16/13

Latest News About Writers Who Are Doing Better Than We Are

  • David Marshall Grant (SMASH ) has written the pilot for a new CBS drama series about an ex-GI cop who uses counter-insurgency tactics to try and control gang violence. (Ooh, waterboarding the Crips? Not smart, ex-GI hero dood. Not smart at all.)
  • Peter Murrieta (WIZARDS OF WAVERLY PLACE) is writing the pilot for an unnamed NBC comedy pilot about a stand-up comedian we’ve never heard of. (“About” as in based on his life and act, and starring him. How interested in the lives of stand-up comedians are you, really? We admit that when it comes to that particular subject we’re in the negative zone.)
  • Owen Ellickson (THE OFFICE) is adapting a non-fiction book by Bruce Feiler for a CBS comedy pilot called SECRETS OF HAPPY FAMILIES. (Ooh, isn’t that the clever title? Can’tcha just taste that delicious irony oozing off the printed page and coating our big screen TVs with…you know.)
  • Dan Lagana (ZACH STONE IS GONNA BE FAMOUS) is writing the pilot for another CBS comedy pilot, this one about a newly married couple who are raising both a toddler and a teen. (Simultaneously! Wowza! That’s gonna send the CBS demographic spinning – dizzily, we imagine. )
  • Seth MacFarlane (well-known smug asshat who used to be funny) has sold BORDERTOWN, a new animated series, to Fox. (This one’s supposed to be “a satirical look at America’s cultural shifts through the evolving relationship” between a border patrol agent and his Mexican immigrant neighbor. (Hmm, we’re seriously tempted to start a pool to see who picks the exact date the first irate viewer publicly calls for MacFarlane to be lynched. Any takers?)

Why Do People Still Try to Get Into TV When We Can Do It All on the Web?

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Last week a smart and curious writer asked former M*A*S*H/CHEERS/FRASIER producer Ken Levine a very important question, and answered with something that quite simply is the Most Important Thing For Today’s New TV Writers to Know. So we’re posting it here, verbatim. Yeppers, no paraphrasing here. You can’t improve on, you know, perfection.

First, the question: read article