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Crowdfunding: ON THE ROCKS is Off to a Big Start on Kickstarter

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For the past couple of months, Andrew Orillion has been posting about all the steps in the creation of ON THE ROCKS,  a web series he’s involved in. We at TVWriter™ have been rooting – and sometimes bleeding – for the show all the while, and we’re proud to be able to announce that last weekend ON THE ROCKS passed two big milestones.

Milestone #1:

The first episode of ON THE ROCKS, “Old Fasioned,” is now on the web and ready for your viewing pleasure. read article

Stan Lee Joins “Plotagon”

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by Team TVWriter™ Press Service

Which is way cooler than it sounds cuz…Stan Lee.

Here’s the deal. read article

Peer Production: MUTE is a Standout!

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The brilliant creators at the Dutch animation studio Job, Joris & Marieke, have made what is, to us, one of the most significant/beautiful/meaningful short animations in, um history. This is a major interweb highlight and, if we were running an interweb video competition for Best of 2014 would be the early favorite for the crown.

Love & Money Dept – TV Writing Deals for 10/24/13

Latest News About Writers Who Are Doing Better Than We Are

  • Barry Schindel (UNFORGETTABLE) is writing the CBS pilot, BLACKWOOD, a drama about a lawyer whose wife is killed, changing his life much the way Richard Kimble’s life was changed in THE FUGITIVE. Except that he isn’t a fugitive.
  • Sheldon Turner (UP IN THE AIR) & KEN NOLAN (BLACK HAWK DOWN) are writing the Fox drama pilot ATLANTIS about two brothers who are, you know, searching for Atlantis. And discovering oceanic mysteries along the way, of course.
  • Nick Santora (BREAKOUT KINGS) is writing BOOTS, a military drama for The CW about recruits who “must overcome their pasts and in so doing build their futures.” And maybe they’ll get in on a little action too?
  • Jared Bush (ZOOTOPIA) & Sam Levine (WRECK-IT RALPH) are developing PENN ZERO: PART TIME HERO, an animated series for Disney XD about a kid who fights the superest of super villains every day after school.
  • Nick Osborne (credits, credits, who knows Nick’s credits?) is wrting DAMASCUS, a CBS drama series about a crusading nun whose “beliefs are tested” when she partners up with an “elitist corporate lawyer” to help those in need of justice. (Oh, God, oh, God, we’re dying to say something snarky here, but we promised, we promised. Maybe if we dig our fingernails into our palms deeply enough…)
  • Stephanie Savage (GOSSIP GIRL) is writing a limited drama series called THE ASTRONAUTS WIVES CLUB about the, um wives of astronauts in the early ’60s, when being an astronaut was way cool. Ms. Savage being the absolutely coolest writer we’ve ever met, we’re firmly on track with making nice about this one.

And thus endeth Day Three of TVWriter™’s new snarkless writing deal announcements. Big thanks to those who wrote to say that they miss the ‘tude. Big “oh, really?” to those who’ve said they like this column better without it. And a Really Big “Shhshh…” to those who’ve pointed out that we’re still being kinda asshatish, just in a different way.

Peer Production: SHIT PEOPLE IN L.A. SAY Just Got Its Makers a Pilot Deal

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That’s right, kids. We wrote about Heidi Niedermeyer and Elena Crevello just a couple of posts ago. Check it and see.

Oh, and then see this: read article