TV Show Bible Basics

One of the most frequently asked questions here at TVWriter™ is, “What’s up with bibles?” As in, “I keep hearing that to get anybody interested in my TV series idea I have to write down what it’s all about? Is that for real…cuz whoa, it sounds hard.”

Well, it is hard. Hard enough so that the process takes up a big chunk of LB’s sorta, kinda well-known book Television Writing from the Inside Out, which if you haven’t yet read or bought you really should so check that out HERE.

But if you aren’t sure you want to pop for five bucks – and in these strange times who can blame any of us for not being sure about anything? – here’s an excellent – and short – intro to the whole process we came across recently. So: read article

TVWriter™ Don’t-Miss Posts of the Week – February 26, 2018

Good morning!

Time for TVWriter™’s  Monday look at our most popular blog posts of the week ending yesterday. They are, in order: read article

Diana Vacc sees “The Alienist”

Nothing is happening here, which doesn’t change the fact that this could be the most exciting image in the series!

by Diana Vaccarelli

—SPOILER ALERT—SPOILER ALERT—SPOILER ALERT—

This winter TNT premiered The Alienist, a 10 episode series that showing what police work was like before the turn of the 20th Century

Set in 1896, this psychological thriller centers around the murder of a young prostitute boy. The event brings together an Alienist (at the time the term for certain experts on mental illness), a newspaper illustrator, a secretary, and Theodore Roosevelt in the job he actually had at the time, New York City Police Commissioner, all working to solve this brutal crime. read article

LB’s Writing Credo

Ah, but is it???

by Larry Brody

We all see and hear, all the time. I’m talking the dreaded BAD WRITING, self-indulgent, uncommunicative stories, poems, TV shows, films, web series, YouTube videos.

I’m not saying everything being presented to us is bad. Most of it isn’t. But there’s enough of the let’s-call-it-“disappointing” stuff to make even the most open-minded pop culture fan cry.

(Pop culture? Where did that expression come from? Oh yeah, the 1960s, before everyone living in the world today but a few old rock stars and obsolete movie stars were born.) read article

TVWriter™ Don’t-Miss Posts of the Week – February 19, 2018

Good morning!

Time for TVWriter™’s  Monday look at our most popular blog posts of the week ending yesterday. They are, in order: read article