For those of you who feel the creative spark growing dim, here are 75 ways to rise up singing!
by Paul Brown
If you’re looking for fresh inspiration then you’ve come to the right place.
Category: Misc.
Herbie J Pilato Remembers the Day Commercial TV was Born
Everything you need to know about the origins of the medium we so love to hate, brought to us by TVWriter™’s masterful television lover, Herbie J Pilato his very self.
July 1, 1941: The Day Commercial Television Was Born
by Herbie J Pilato
Some reports claim television began in 1925.
That’s when John Logie Baird and Charles Francis Jenkins worked independently of one another on both sides of the Atlantic and produced weak and blurry images on a screen no larger than one inch wide. Other documentation said it was 1928, when WGY, Schenectady, began broadcasting three days a week.
WGAW July 2021 Calendar
Here’s what going on, socially and professionally, at the Writers Guild of America West this month:
July 2021
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So You Want to be a ‘New Yorker’ Cartoonist
Over the years, we at TVWriter™ have known many men and women who aspired to become cartoonists for New Yorker Magazine. A couple of them have been winners of the mag’s weekly caption contest, but not a one has sold an actual original cartoon there.
Maybe this will help them – and those of you we don’t know personally. This TVWriter™ minion certainly hopes so.
Herbie J Pilato Remembers ‘The New Dick Van Dyke Show’
Herbie J Pilato and the Celebrating Act2 YouTube channel take us down memory lane in a discussion of a Dick Van Dyke sitcom that wasn’t a hit. Lightning doesn’t just strike. We – the storm star chasers – have to give it a boost.
