Yo, Americans, You Aren’t Watching Enough TV

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:

Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics
Credit: Lam Thuy Vo

And what do you do during those less-than-3 hours a day of leisure?

Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics
Credit: Lam Thuy Vo

An hour and a half of television watching a day? One drama and one sitcom and then it’s a wrap?! read article

The Doctor Puppet is on a Roll

Yep, he’s traveling through space, time, and the interwebs, inundating us in universe-expanding posts:

August 26th:

I may be extremely clever but I’m still figuring Tumblr out. I just found this fantastic old post. read article

Hey You Lady Writers!

From the makers of BIC, those non-sexist genius pen pushers who must have spent at least a day coming up with this product:

BIC Cristal…For Her read article

HOW TO ROCK Showrunner Tells All About Its Cancellation

This is the reason God invented blogs (for all you future showrunners out there):

On The Emmus: How To Rock The Future – by David Israel

Hey, HTR Fans. read article

Web Power Grows, Soon It Will Eat TV

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.

THE MINDY PROJECT

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. read article