Category: News

TVWriter™ Herbie J Pilato has a New Website

by munchman

4629759070_843x423TVWriter™ Contributing Editor Herbie J Pilato, known far and wide as, well, as Herbie J Pilato, has himself a new website, featuring everything from his authorized bio (written by famous Classic TV biographer Herbie J Pilato, no less) to a complete list of (and links to) his interweb work, books, and everything else you can think of – including all there is to know about the Classic TV Preservation site and even a link to TVWriter™.

It isn’t precisely a party in our pocket, but we definitely want y’all to come. (Herbie J may be the expert on Classic TV, but yer friendly munchamaniac still knows his Classic Underground Rock.)

Congrats on your grand opening, Herbie J Dood! read article

WGAW 2016 BOARD OF DIRECTORS ELECTION RESULTS

Congratulations to the new members of the Board of Directors of the Writers Guild of America, West:

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DOCTOR WHO spinoff starts this October

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Can’t help it. News this important needs to be posted PRONTO!

According to the usual reliable sources, the new Doctor Who spinoff, called Class, will be airing on Old Media TV – BBC and BBC America – starting in October. read article

WGAW Wants Submissions for 2016 Feature Writer Access Project.

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by TVWriter™ Press Service

Gather ’round, TVWriter™ visitors, because TVWriter™ has received a press release we can’t wait to share:

We are now accepting submissions for the 2016 Feature Writer Access Project. The project seeks to identify outstanding minority, female and age 60+ writers and make their scripts available to We are now accepting submissions for the 2016 Feature Writer Access Project. The project seeks to identify outstanding minority, female and age 60+ writers and make their scripts available to entertainment industry decision-makers, including producers, studio executives, agents and managers, in order to help raise their profile and generate potential employment opportunities. This program is modeled on the success of the TV Writer Access Project for Mid-Level Television writers.

PLEASE NOTE: At the time of submission, a Project participant must be a Current Active (including Lifetime Current) or Post-Current Active member of the WGAW. If submission is made by a writing team, both writers must be Current Active or Post-Current Active members of the WGAW. read article

It’s PEOPLE’S PILOT Success Story Time!

Vesta GilesVesta Giles, a finalist in the 2014 People’s Pilot Competition and student in the TVWriter™ Advanced Online Workshop and Larry Brody’s Master Class, has written the upcoming Lifetime TV Movie Justice Unleashed and is, in fact hard at work rewriting her second successful Lifetime sale even as we speak.

Justice Unleashed is the story of a woman judge searching for her runaway daughter, who has become the victim of human traffickers, and LB remembers its origin vividly.

“Vesta wrote a hard-hitting, totally unsentimental script in my class. I was amazed by the power in her work to start with and even more impressed by the way she responded to criticism and made it even better. Vesta knows how to listen and learn and put into practice what she learns. She has the superpower of being able to ‘get it.’ And that’s a rare and valuable power indeed.” read article