The Rich Get Richer – This Time at the Expense of U.S. Soap Writers

Hey, we gotta tellya – all of us minions here at TVWriter™ are pissed off as hell at you, CBS. What the fuck do you think you’re doing?

Oh, yeah, we know what they’re doing. They’re screwing writers by pressuring them into giving up their own contractual rights and taking pay cuts.

Solidarity, bros: read article

Cannabis Journalism – the Ultimate Writing Class

This made our weekend. Probably for the wrong reason, but still….

Thank you, CBS Denver

Discovered: Agatha Christie’s Whodunnit Template

No one has ever written mystery stories more interesting and difficult for the reader to solve than Agatha Christie. But don’t let that get you down because guess what. As of this week – right now – the mystery of how she did it has been uncovered. And with enough patience, we can all do it too.

Maybe:

by Haroon Siddique

agathachristieequationFor almost 100 years, Agatha Christie has beguiled readers with her much-loved mysteries. But now a panel of experts claims to have worked out how to answer the perennial question: whodunnit? read article

Would You Invest in the TV Biz as it is Now?

Whoa! Television must be dead. Even the Wall Street Journal is starting to smell the corpse:

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Note to Media Investors: TV Isn’t Quite Dead Yet
by Paul Vigna

The media sector got walloped last week, hit hard by investors fleeing amid the panic of the “cord cutters,” people who are dropping their cable packages in favor of Internet-based platforms like Netflix , Hulu, YouTube, or Amazon. Far from a sudden crash, however, it seems that Wall Street is just starting to take seriously a phenomenon that’s been building for year. read article

Project Greenlight is Back

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Oh no! We mean, yay! We mean…well, we’ll have to see the new version of PROJECT GREENLIGHT when it returns to HBO after a hiatus of a decades. Will it really discover new filmmakers? Talented ones? Considering what came out of the original series, we’re doubtful.

But hope. We got miles and miles of hope.

Anyway, here’s the teaser: read article