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Love & Money Dept – TV Writing Deals for 11/7/13

Latest News About Writers Who Are Doing Better Than We Are

  • Tim Heidecker & Eric Wareheim (TIM & ERIC AWESOME SHOW) are developing TIM AND ERIC’S BEDTIME STORIES, an anthological fantasy series, for Adult Swim. (And any show on Adult Swim is a friend of ours, so, “Yay, Tim and Eric!” See how easy we really are?)
  • Larry Golin (ROCKY MARCIANO? What kind of credit is that?) is adapting Eddie MacKenzie’s memoir, Street Soldier, into a Fox “event series” about the Boston Irish mob. (Brace yourselves for the coming of the Irish Anti-Defamation League. After all, if the mafia Italian-Americans could do it….)
  • Ian Sobel & Matt Morgan (newbies!) have sold their spec pilot, HARVEST, to A&E. It’s about a guy who’s life goes all to hell when his crooked father forces him into the body-trade business. (In other words, somebody sees a chance to give the audience what it clearly desires – a newer, even more disgusting variation of BREAKING BAD. Which could work, wethinks…if it’s as funny as BREAKING BAD.)
  • David Wilcox (666 PARK AVENUE) has parlayed that series remarkable success into an ABC drama pilot called ENTRAPMENT, about a beautiful, young, female prosecutor accused of murder. (Oh wait, 666 PARK AVENUE bombed. Guess nobody told ABC.)
  • Continuing his distinguished career, His Geniusship Mr. Wilcox  is also writing the pilot for BADLANDS, a supernatural Western, for The CW. (Whoa, a shoe with roots on The CW and 666 PARK AVENUE. This is true Do Not Miss TV – especially if you’re driving a very big truck.)
  • Ed Burns (yeppers, that Ed Burns) is writing PUBLIC MORALS, a period cop show for TNT. (He’s also directing the pilot and starring as well cuz…fucking Ed…fucking Burns, bitches!)

Peer Production: Cross-Training with Jesus

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This has to be absolutely our favorite interweb video find of all time. Ya gotta see it! Ya gotta!

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Crowdfunding: The Makers of MYST and RIVEN Want Us to Help ‘Em Create a New Game

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If you were a player of either MYST or RIVEN back in the day, then you know that a new adventure game by its makers is a Very Big Deal. It’s been a long wait for more from the Cyan team, and now they need our $$$ to help get the show game on the road–

But why type/read when you can watch/listen? read article

Crowdfunding: OUR STUDIO

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Yep, this is the most exciting action you’re gonna get! Way cool, no?

A newlywed couple living in a tiny space in a very big place:

So here’s the deal. We saw the Indiegogo page for OUR STUDIO and thought that it was so sincere that it was just plain charming. “A new Web Series funded by the Wedding of Adam Rini and Megan Hughes?” We also thought that if we liked two of the three characters as much as we did (the third character is a cat; we aren’t cat people, sorry), then so would the general audience cuz it’s the interaction of the regular “family” that makes a TV series a hit. (Or a miss but why go there?)

We bookmarked the page and scheduled a time to post the recommendation and the link and then… read article

Love & Money Dept – TV Writing Deals for 11/6/13

Latest News About Writers Who Are Doing Better Than We Are

  • Drew Chapman is adapting his conspiracy thriller, The Ascendant into a drama series for Fox. (“Conspiracy thriller?” Ooh, conspiracies always give us chills of delight…but we can say no more cuz, you know, it isn’t safe.)
  • Michael Horowitz (BURN NOTICE) is writing the pilot for another Fox drama series, ALLEGED, which we’re told is a drama about “three friends who find their up-and-coming battery start-up threatened by a lack of lithium and…use unconventional techniques to solve the problem….” (What? You don’t get it? Get what? We can’t help because we fell asleep after typing the first 8 words in the description.)
  • Arika Lisanne Mittman (DEXTER) is adapting Sara Shephard’s book series The Perfectionist” into a drama series for The CW. (No, we aren’t telling what it’s about. It’s the CW. So you already know what the series will be.)
  • Bret McKenzie (FLIGHT OF THE CONCORDS) is developing an animated comedy about NASA for Fox. (We always get excited about potential Fox animated comedies. Probably because our mom watched so much of THE SIMPSONS while we were still floating around in her womb. Yep, we come from that kinda family. Thanks, Mom.)
  • Sara Heyward (GIRLS) is writing the pilot for SISTER-IN-LAW, a comedy about a woman who has to find a way to get along with her whacky future sister-in-law. (A family where ignoring each other isn’t an option? What planet do they live on?)
  • Stephen Chin has sold a private eye show about a disabled detective to ABC. (But nobody’s telling us what the disability is…which usually means that by the time the show gets on the air – if it does – the disabled part will be gone, gone, gone cuz that’s how networks roll.)