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For TV Shows, It’s a Seller’s Market

The title above is also the title of a Wall Street Journal article that was published a couple of weeks ago. We hadn’t mentioned it before cuz we were waiting for WSJ to rethink what they’d said and, well, correct it.

Clear as mud, right? Well, here’s the skinny:

tv-show-articlesby Amol Sharma and Keach Hagey

Broadcast TV networks used to get first crack at all the best scripts in Hollywood. Nowadays, they are mere participants in a mad scramble. read article

Peer Production: More News About the “UNTITLED WEB SERIES” for DOCTOR WHO Lovers Everywhere

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By which we mean Travis Richey’s “Untitled Web Series About A Space Traveler Who Can Also Travel Through Time” which is, for those not yet in the know, an offshoot if his INSPECTOR SPACETIME TV show within a show that so many people – us included – fell in love with on COMMUNITY.

Travis did a Kickstarter thing awhile back that resulted in the first season of the new version of the series on YouTube. Then he did another Kickstarter thing for a second season preview episode which turned into a genuine prequel ep instead. As in it’s got a story and characters and dialog and action and the whole thing. read article

Love & Money Dept – TV Writing Deals for 10/4/13

Latest News About Writers Who Are Doing Better Than We Are

  • Blake Herron (THE BOURNE IDENTITY) will write an untitled action drama for TNT about a super agent. (Who just might remind some of the audience of a certain Jason Bourne. Totally coincidental, of course.)
  • Josh Heald (HOT TUB TIME MACHINE) is writing a TBS comedy  which also is untitled but probably won’t be anything like THE BOURNE IDENTITY. (Although some viewers might wish it was.)
  • Vince Gilligan (BREAKING BAD, natch) has sold an 11 year old drama spec to CBS and will share showrunner/writer duties with none other than David Shore (HOUSE). (The show’s about two “very different” cops who team up to inflict justice on the town of Battle Creek, Michigan. And after hearing that description all we can say is, it better be fucking funny.)
  • Josh Harto & Liz Garcia (MEMPHIS BEAT) are adapting Anne Rice’s Songs of the Seraphim novels into a series for CBS. (And we’re going way out on a limb here to tell ya that the series will be so much better than the original books it’ll make Anne Rice’s head bleed. No, we haven’t seen any advance script pages we just luv MEMPHIS BEAT. Watch it if you can and see why. Go on. We dare ya.)
  • Emily Goldwyn & Sasha Spielberg (newbie daughters of famous dads) are writing an ABC comedy pilot called GIRLS WITHOUT BOYS, which we really, really, really hope is about lesbians cuz we’re sort of bent that way.  (And regardless of whether it is or not, we’re hoping even more that the father of one of these fine lady writers stays totally out of the loop of the show cuz let’s face it, Stevie S. doesn’t exactly have the best TV track record in the world.)
  • Joel Hlavin (UNDERWORLD: AWAKENING) is writing the pilot for OASIS, a si-fi thriller, for CBS. (And while we’re getting a little tired of science fiction everywhere we look, we admit to being curious about any show about “the inhabitants of a new…perfect community, who discover there may be danger….” Actually, what really makes us curious here is the understatement in the announcement. It’s so unlike good ole broadcast TV.)

WGAW Calendar for October, 2013

wgaoctcal13a wgaoctcal13We dunno. Maybe it’s us, but we keep looking at this and thinking, “Where’s the WGAW Halloween Party? Don’t they know how to have fun?

But, yeah, that’s us.

Peer Production: Why You Should Watch CONVOS WITH MY 2-YEAR-OLD

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If you haven’t been watching this remarkable web series in which an adult male plays the part of  a 2 year old girl talking to her parents – saying the things she really said – rest assured that you’ve been missing absolutely the best of the best of the web.

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