Category: Misc.

Are All TV Writers Nerds? Or Do We Just Look That Way?

goodnerdsAre you cool Enough for the Writers Room?

Recently, HollywoodReporter.Com put together a photo gallery of the staffs of what the site called, “TV’s Greatest Writers Rooms of All Time.”

We aren’t sure we agree with that (actually we’re pretty damn sure we don’t), but what struck us about the gallery wasn’t the talent involved (and there was a lot of it!) but the look. It was like peering into the Extra-Curricular Activities section of a high school yearbook in a school where all the kids were in their 40s. read article

LB: So I Joined This Site Called Quora…

Quora-screenshot-005

…And while I don’t entirely understand the place yet, I’m enjoying myself, mainly because I seem to be gaining insight into how other people think.

If you’ve never heard of Quora, the nutshell description is that people become members and members ask questions. About anything. After which these questions are answered by other members. Some of the answers are right. Some are wrong. All, from what I’ve seen so far, are heartfelt. read article

In Their Own Writ: Samuel Goldwyn on TV Writing

Possibly the best comment on the subject ever (and the one in the pic ain’t too shabby either):

samuel-goldwyn

“Television has raised writing to a new low.”

Samuel Goldwyn

LB: And My Favorite of All the Shows I’ve Worked On Is…

Glad You Asked Department 5/27/13

question_ditkoTime now to once again play Answer Man. Today’s question is on a  topic near and dear to me. Yep, that’s right, it’s about  me. Well, my career anyway. (Which isn’t me, but once upon a time I sure thought it was.)

Sam T. has expressed his curiosity this way:

I saw your IMDB page the other day and was amazed by the size of your output.  Writing credits on fifty different series? Producer on ten? Story editor on ten more? That looks to me like an amazing output. Which of all those shows was your favorite? Which was your least favorite? And I have to ask one more question too. How in the world did you do it? read article

How Much Will Google’s Trojan Horse Disrupt TV?

In the, you know, best sense of “disrupt?”

broken-tv-800by John Paul Titlow

It’s a huge year for TV’s future. Yet for all the excitement about Web-first soap operas, data-driven programming and the disruption of broadcast, the Internet TV “inflection point” that 2013 has become is just the beginning. A Trojan horse is slowly rolling into town, and it’s bursting at the seams with data. Wheeling it along is none other than Google.

Indeed, if the data-fueled success of Netflix’s House of Cards is as crucial to TV’s future as many believe, what Google is most likely planning will make the transformation we’ve witnessed so far look like early innings in a very long ball game. read article