Hey Whovians, Listen Up!

The BBC has released an official synopsis of the upcoming DOCTOR WHO: THE DAY OF THE DOCTOR episode, and since TVWriter™ is, well, madly in love with this series (and has been for 50 years even though that’s longer than our site has existed), we’re giving it to ya ra-cheer:

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2014 Writers Guild Awards Deadline Approacheth

Speaking of the WGA (as we did earlier today), if you’re a member don’t forget the screenplay awards deadline. Or, as the Writers Guild puts it:

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What’s the story on the TV writing awards? Damned if we know.

Writers Guild of America West November Calender

Cuz even if you aren’t in the Guild you want to know what its members will be up to, right?

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Love & Money Dept – TV Writing Deals for 11/5/13

Latest News About Writers Who Are Doing Better Than We Are

  • Alexandra Cunningham (DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES) is adapting Harlan Coben’s thriller, Gone for Good, into a drama series for NBC. (The premise seems to be: “Trust no one.” So we already want to like this project.)
  • David Rambo (REVOLUTION) & Pat Gilfillan (former Nichol Fellowship Winner) are writing the pilot for CBS’s ALLEGED, a drama about a lawyer who is defending his own brother on a murder charge. (Dunno about you, but we’re getting a tad tired of lawyers as heroes. Mostly cuz in our lives so far they’re…not. In fact, every time we see the news another lawyer looks like the enemy!)
  • Matthew Michael Carnahan (WORLD WAR Z) is writing an HBO movie about a guy who breaks into New York high society by being, you know, not what he seems. (He’s also African American cuz, hey, those guys is all shady characters, right? Or to put it another way, “Racism by any other name….”)
  • Maya Van Wagenen (15 year old newb) has sold a book based on her diary to Dreamworks. (We’re so happy for her that we aren’t even feeling bad about Maya being a mere child with a better deal than anything we’ve even come close to. Really. We lurves her. Honest. Congrats, Maya!)
  • Gabe Miller & Jonathan Green (THE OFFICE) are writing the pilot for a CBS comedy about a lifestyle design expert. (Which seems to be untitled cuz…what title could such a premise possibly inspire?)
  • Messers Miller & Green are also writing an untitled comedy for NBC, this one about two overachievers. (Overachievers, huh? As in two more human beings who are doing better than we are? And somebody thinks we’re gonna want to see them? Why? Cuz we like to cry?)

AGENTS OF SHIELD/THOR: THE DARK WORLD Crossover Coming

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by Team TVWriter™ Press Service

Here’s the scoop, straight from the Marvel P.R. peeps:

After Marvel’s “Thor: The Dark World” hits theaters November 8, “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” will feel the repercussions November 19 with an all-new episode! [Exclamation point Marvel’s, of course!]

The episode, titled, THE WELL, takes place right after THOR: THE DARK WORLD ends, which means, we suppose, that we, the loving, eager audience, have like a ten day window in which to see THOR:TDW so we know what the bloody hell is going on. According to Marvel’s synopsis, the episode is about Coulson and his crew having to pick up the pieces of whatever funkiness went down with Thor and the Gods, with one of Coulson’s cronies in danger of being, um, “destroyed.” read article