Category: News

500 Scripted TV Series Rocking On-Air This Season

That we’re living in The Year of Peak TV is indisputable, but we here at TVWriter™ do have a question: Is the fact that all these shows exist and are in need of writers (whether they realize it or not) the good news? Or is it the bad?

Scripted Series Tally Brings Viewers and Networks Another Record Year
by Michael Schneider

Peak TV still hasn’t peaked. According to FX Networks chief John Landgraf, as of August there have been 342 scripted programs via broadcast, cable, and streaming services this year – up from 325 at this time last year.

That puts the year’s tally racing toward a landmark 500 scripted shows in 2017, up from 455 in 2016. (There were 216 series in 2010, so the number has already doubled.) read article

And Now a Few Words from Lou Stone Borenstein…

…About Lou Stone Borenstein, and why not?

by Lou Stone Borenstein & TVWriter™ Press Service

Tickets are now available for the remaining dates of my latest L.A.  show “A History of CENSORED in America”!

I have some free tickets available to the Aug 11th show. Let me know if you’d like any. read article

New YouTube Series Gives Us Untold Tales of Star Wars

Whoa, an authorized Star Wars Forces of Destiny is a YouTube web series…ands it’s canon!

Mother of mercy, is this the end of TV?

Yeah, the question was rhetorical, but the practical, all too real answer most probably is, “You betcha.” read article

Nielsen’s TV ratings now include Hulu and YouTube TV

The end of “real” TV is, um, nigh. Very nigh:

by Anthony Ha

Nielsen is taking a big step in measuring streaming TV today with the addition of Hulu and YouTube TV to its ratings. read article

Bryan Fuller Gives Us the Lowdown on his Exit from ‘Star Trek: Discovery’

Not so mad (actually kind of gentle) Genius Bryan Fuller has actually talked to Entertainment Weekly, of all places, about leaving his gig as showrunner of CBS’s new version of Star Trek. We found it on the interwebs…and we also found it “fascinating.”

Hehe. This show’s initials are STD. Hehehe.

Bryan Fuller on his Star Trek: Discovery exit: ‘I got to dream big’
by James Hibberd

Bryan Fuller candidly discusses his exit as showrunner from Star Trek: Discoveryin this week’s Entertainment Weekly — including his original ambitious pitch to CBS All Access.

The Hannibal and Pushing Daisies showrunner initially wasn’t envisioning a single Trek series, but multiple serialized anthology shows that would begin with Star Trek: Discovery (a prequel to Star Trek: The Original Series), journey through the eras of Captain James T. Kirk and Captain Jean Luc Picard, and then go beyond to a time in Trek that’s never been seen before. read article