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Holy Moly, Kids! TVWriter™ Turned 20 Years Old This Year & We Forgot to Tell You!

The original TV Writer Home page, with its garish green scroll. Yes, a couple of the images are missing, but we think it’s amazing that a third one, the tiny yellow pencil – and the rest of the landing page – are still up on the web at The Internet Archive Wayback Machine

Talk about embarrassing. Among other things going on during the year 2018 – for better and for worse – this year also marks the 20th Anniversary of TVWriter™, and we were so caught up in the day-to-day chaos that we didn’t just forget to tell y’all, we also forgot the exact date.

So, having checked and rechecked our info, here’s an exciting factoid with which we can close out TVWriter™’s 2018 books:

Our Founder, Larry Brody registered the URL “TVWriter.Com” twenty years, five months, and four+ weeks ago, on July 1st, 1998 and went live with it the next day. read article

Why don’t women have these jobs?

Ken Levine, the best TV comedy writer everybody here at TVWriter™ wishes they knew, has one of the best blogs on the interwebs that isn’t about Doctor Who. It definitely should be on your Don’t-Miss List. The article below is a fine example of why:

by Ken Levine

So the current hot radio format is AC or Adult Contemporary. AC stations in most markets are ratings leaders or creeping up. AC stations tend not to have a great “cool” factor. Some play Michael Bolton for God sakes. Primarily AC stations play established pop artists and oldies that only go back to 2000. Some of their core artists have not had hits in awhile yet they’re still popular. John Mayer, Pink, Daugherty, and all the other AMERICAN IDOL finalists who are desperately trying to stave off that career as UPS driver. AC stations play new music but not as much as Top 40 stations. But Top 40 stations are more teen-oriented. read article

Live in L.A.? Looking for Something Good to Do Tomorrow?

…We have just the thing:

People Ask Why LB Lives in Port Townsend, WA

Port Townsend’s historic Ann Starrett Mansion, which we keep trying to buy to no avail because – yes, it’s true – yours truly LB is about as cheap as people come.

by Larry Brody

Yes, it’s true. A lot of people ask me why I live where I do.

Not why I left L.A., oh no, most people seem to get that, but why this particular place on the northeastern tip of the geographical area known as the Pacific Northwest.

There are a lot of reasons, of course. It was a very complex decision and wasn’t made in a vacuum. Gwen the Beautiful and I shared in the process and its result, just as we’ve shared everything during our 25+ year marriage. read article

WATCHMEN is a Genre Classic in Film, Comics – and soon, TV…

…Even though Stan Lee didn’t write it. Or have anything whatsoever to do with it. That’s all on Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons, and, amazingly, DC Comics.

Since our latest research (we took a quick jaunt through Google Analytics) shows that much of TVWriter™’s regular audience is made up of comic book and science fiction geeks fans who need no introduction to the Watchman film, graphic novel, comic book, and soon to be TV series world, we thought we’d introduce the rest of you to the concept. read article