We mean it. You’re working too much, people! And the commuting time, oy! Less than 3 hours of leisure a day? That’s inhumane. Look at these stats:
And what do you do during those less-than-3 hours a day of leisure?
An hour and a half of television watching a day? One drama and one sitcom and then it’s a wrap?!
We want to say that’s an oxymoron but aren’t in the mood for the flak. Fingers to lips then as we read:
Why you should be watching Hulu’s creepy deal-with-the-devil series The Booth at the End – by Lauren Davis
That’s Will and Jada Pinkett Smith, and the guy it’s paying off for is J. Michael Straczynski of BABYLON 5 fame.
What we hear is that ABC has put a Straczynski-Smith-Smith series in development with a script-to-series commitment, which means that based on a pilot script alone ABC either will order/put into production 13 episodes of the series…or it won’t.
But, hey, at least there’s no pilot to diddle around with.
‘Cuz ABC is part of the Disney/Marvel/ABC Family, capish? Think for one minute any Marvel pilots are going to be developed at CBS?
ABC Orders Marvel’s ‘S.H.I.E.L.D.’ to Pilot From Joss Whedon – by Lesley Goldberg
Or maybe television’s already done for. Yesterday, for example, Fox premiered two new TV series on the web, although they won’t appear on, you know, Fox TV, till tonight.
Oh, and these weren’t just any web premieres. These were on f-ing Facebook. Well, kinda makes sense. Zuckermantown is as close to the closed up pablum as the web gets these days. So close that we often find ourselves thinking of it as AOL Revisited.
BEN & KATE
The times they are a’changin’. And just between us, we here at TVWriter™ are mightily well-disposed toward change.
