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This Crappy Comercial Will Make Somebody Famous

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Or infamous. It certainly should be career-changing, either one way or the other.

Know how TVWriter™ is always talking about how making your own video is a way to be discovered? This genuine, absolutely real, not in anyway a parody commercial definitely is another. Except – discovered for what? read article

Love & Money Dept – TV Writing Deals for 10/9/13

Latest News About Writers Who Are Doing Better Than We Are

  • Reed Agnew & Eli Jorne (WILFRED) are writing MAN/CHILD, a comedy about two single dads trying to balance their lives, for Fox. (It’s a Damon Wayans, Jr. vehicle, so who knows? It might turn out really good.
  • Pending a last-minute disaster in the deal, Carlton Cuse (BATES MOTEL) will be adapting the French zombie drama, THE RETURNED for A&E. (Whoa, two in a row that we find ourselves looking forward to. We must be in way too good a mood.)
  • Blake McCormick (COUGAR TOWN) is also writing the pilot for CHASING SKIPS, an “adventure comedy,” for Fox. Oops, there goes our good mood. Another series about bounty hunters? We can hardly wait…to stop yawning.)
  • Don Todd (SAMANTHA WHO?) writing the pilot for the ABC drama, BEVERLY KILLS, about – wait for it – a hit woman who tries to clean up the corruption et al in Beverly Hills. (And, yeppers, we find this a very attractive idea cuz we aint’ never seen an unattractive hit woman on TV yet. Starting to feel a little better about TV life again.)
  • Chris Romano (BLUE MOUNTAIN STATE) has sold TORCHED, a comedy project, to Fox. (With Johnny Depp as one of the producers. We love Depp’s overall creative sensibility although not his recent specific choices. But, now that we’re being all positive again, we’re allowing ourselves to have high hopes for this one.)
  • Matthew Sand (NINJA ASSASSIN) is writing the pilot for CLANDESTINE, a female CIA agent series,  for ABC. (The good news is female CIA agent series, a concept right up there with hit women. The bad news is that does a network that has MARVEL’S AGENTS OF SHIELD have room for another kickass lady spy. You’re watching Ming Na on SHIELD, right? Of course you are.)
  • Rina Mimoun (DAWSON’S CREEK) is writing the ABC pilot, SISTERLAND, based on Curtis Sittenfeld‘s novel about twin sister with psychic powers. (Hey, it’s better than twin sister bounty hunters, no? Way better. Look, Ma, we’re beaming!)

Love & Money Dept – TV Writing Deals for 10/8/13

Latest News About Writers Who Are Doing Better Than We Are

  • Scott Prendergast (WILFRED) is writing a comedy about two brothers who’ve grown up hating each other for ABC. (Where, from what we hear, hating on others is quite well understood. Ooh…did we really say that?)
  • Jordan Young & Elijah Aron (IT’S ALWAYS SUNNY IN PHILADELPHIA) are writing a comedy pilot for Fox about a romantic guy trying to rise to the challenge after falling in love with a “super cynical woman.” (Oh, hey, this one’s said to be autobiographical. We’ll root for it cuz we kinda know Jordan and Elijah, and we’re major fans of  fun TMI.)
  • Tim McAuliffe (BAD TEACHER) is also writing a Fox comedy pilot. And this one’s based on his experiences with three roommates. (One of whom is – gasp! – a babe. Yes, kids, that’s what passes for “interesting” in most writers’ lives.)
  • Albert Kim (NIKITA) writing an untitled drama about a woman imprisoned for – gasp! – a double murder she didn’t commit who earns her law degree while behind bars, proves herself innocent, and joins a high-powered law firm “that she believes is at the center of the conspiracy that framed her.” And that’s just backstory! (No word on how she gets sprung without being able to pinpoint the conspirators, or how she gets a license to practice or…so maybe there’re be something to watch after all.)

  • David Goyer (BATMAN et al) & Daniel Cerone (THE MENTALIST) are writing the pilot for NBC’s CONSTANTINE, another DC Comics hero joining the herd that’s currently invading TV. (The good news, as far as we’re concerned, is that the comic book CONSTANTINE is, well, one of our personal faves. So here’s hoping…)

  • Wendy & Lizzie Molyneux (BOB’S BURGERS) are writing WORKS WITH JERKS, a comedy pilot for ABC. (And we admit it. With a title like that, we’ll definitely watch cuz who knows, maybe we’ll see some of our friends?)

Motion Picture Academy Announces 2013 Nicholl Fellowships

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Nicholl Award Director Greg Beal – cuz it’s always good to personalize these things

by Team TVWriter™ Press Service

Ooh, a press release. And from the Motion Picture Academy!

It doesn’t get much better than this. Especially when the release is about a group of people very near and dear to TVWriter™’s heart: The finalists in the 2013 Nicholl Award Competition.

Take it away, MPAS: read article

Love & Money Dept – TV Writing Deals for 10/7/13

Latest News About Writers Who Are Doing Better Than We Are

  • Sanjay Shah (ENLISTED) has sold an untitled autobiographical comedy about an immigrant family running a fast-food franchise together to NBC. (Where they keep on commissioning family comedies regardless of how indifferent their viewers seem to be to that particular arena.)
  • Chris Case (RETIRED AT 35) has an NBC pilot deal for MAYBE IT’S ME, an autobiographical comedy about a father juggling three strong women in his life. (Hmm, not only is this another family comedy, it’s also another autobiographical comedy. And you thought writers’ lives were boring!)
  • Stefan Jaworski (“hot Danish writer” is all we could get) is writing the pilot for WHITE EYE, a procedural thriller, for ABC. (Curse you, PERSON OF INTEREST! You’re so popular that everybody’s trying to duplicate your success. And we all know where that’s going to lead.)
  • Jeff Addiss & Will Matthews are writing a HOUDINI miniseries for ABC that seems to be about the famed escape artist solving contemporary crime. (But maybe it isn’t. The art of clearly stating a premise seems to have escaped the net’s PR.)
  • Chris Keyser (PARTY OF FIVE) is writing WARRIORS, a drama about a “national military hospital,” also for ABC. (Cuz that’s the one twist on a medical show that’s never been done as far as we know. Huzzah! for creativity.)
  • David Grae (CASTLE) is writing the pilot for ABC’s LIFE IS MURDER, a mother-daughter crime drama. (Oh, God, more family. But at least it’s not a comedy…we hope.)