Category: News

Keely MacDonald Named Fox Writers Lab Fellow

by TVWriter™ Press Service

Fox Inclusive has named a fellow for its Fox Writers Lab.

Writer Keely MacDonald has been selected from the sixth annual group of finalists and has received a script development deal with Fox Broadcasting Company. A 2012 grad of Duke University, MacDonald became an intern on Fox’s Sleepy Hollow in 2013, eventually graduating to full-fledged writer on show with the season four episode, “Insatiable.”

Launched in 2011, Fox Writers Lab (formerly known as the Fox Writers Intensive) is an initiative designed to nurture writers who have diverse voices, backgrounds and life experiences in an effort to create a strong pipeline of talent for potential staffing on Fox television shows and films. read article

TOLDJA! – Web Series ‘Stupid Idiots’ Now has a Genuine TV Deal

Stupid Idiots (not the people, dammit, the show!)

Just a couple of weeks ago TVWriter™ gave the web series Stupid Idiots a review that included the following:

So how damning is it if I say that the two leads in this very funny web series aren’t merely perfect recreations of people I know but in true fact are perfect recreations of, well, of me, dammit? Me!

If that isn’t a rave, what is it? In other words, we knew this show was going to take off, but even the smartest, bravest, and boldest of TVWriter™ minions never imagined that before the end of the month Stupid Idiots would have a genuine, supercool, real big-time development deal with the likes of Paramount TV and Anonymous Content? read article

This Year’s Emmy Writing Nominees

We would brag about having some good friends of TVWriter™  in this list, but the truth is that these fine writers have been good friends to everybody, just for giving us their wonderful work:

Best Writing for a Comedy Series read article

Indie Video: ‘Ace and Anxious’

NOTE FROM LB: Boy, life sure is funny. Just yesterday, we were lamenting that one of our favorite contributors, Ms. Bri Castellini, was no longer writing a regular column here at TVWriter™, and lo and behold, along came the following info.

It’s a press release, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t also well-written and interesting and true. Especially since it plugs one of the most talented young creatives we know. Who, in that self-same article yesterday was heard to question her ability to self-promote. Way to overcome, Bri!

Take it away, Undead Burrito Productions: read article

You Won’t Believe How Rich These Self-Publishing Authors Are!

by TVWriter™ Press Service

Illo found at AlanRinzler.Com. Check out the site!

EDITOR’S NOTE: What’s a little clickbait between friends? Especially when it’s for a worthy cause. No, the reason we gave this article this heading isn’t so that it would make us rich. It’s because we believe so strongly in what it means to writers to be able to at least be the prime beneficiaries of working the wordsmithing craft.

‘Show me the money!’: the self-published authors being snapped up by Hollywood
by Danuta Kean

After watching Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill, self-published author Mark Dawson was inspired to create his own answer to the film’s heroine Beatrix “Black Mamba” Kiddo. And now Dawson – and his character government-employed assassin Beatrix Rose – are set to take on Hollywood, with his series on the verge of a major television deal, complete with a “triple A” producer.

Admitting he had a “‘holy shit’ moment” when he was told who the producer was, the Salisbury-based former lawyer said he had initially signed a “shopping agreement” after an approach through his website. “They have attached a writer and an extremely well-known Hollywood figure and director to it,” Dawson says. “The people linked are all serious players – household names – and they have pitched it to half a dozen studios and from that they have got an agreement [to develop it] for television.” read article