Like it says, Part 2 of what started below as, you know, Part 1:
ABC Season Finale Dates
by the Deadline.Com Team
Friday, April 11
8:31-9 PM The NeighborsThursday, April 17
10-11 PM Scandal
Category: News
2014-2015 Pickups and Renewals and Finales Part 1
Ooh, we’re having a kinda, sorta TV Scheduling Thursday here on TVWriter™ today. So sit back and enjoy, Soul Writers. En-fucking-joy!
Summer Premiere Dates for New and Returning Series on Broadcast and Cable
by the Deadline.Com Team
Here’s a rundown of shows that will hit the airwaves for the first time between June 1 and the start of the 2014-15 TV season, along with those returning for new seasons or coming off hiatus. We will update when new dates are announced:
June 1:
Halt & Catch Fire (AMC, series premiere)
Love & Money Dept – TV Writing Deals for 3/26/14
Latest News About Writers Who Are Doing Better Than We Are
by munchman
- Anna Fricke (BEING HUMAN) has a new overall deal with 20th Century Fox Television and will serve as showrunner of HIEROGLYPH, for which she wrote a pilot so hot that they aren’t even wasting time shooting a pilot. It’s just go, go, go on the series itself. (Hey, Anna, you don’t know the munchman but I’m flat out calling it – munchie adores your work. Good luck on this one!)
- Matt Miller, Caitlin Barlow, Katy Colloton, Cate Freedman, Kate Lambert, Katie O’Brien and Katie Thomas have a deal with TV Land to bring their web series, TEACHERS, to the Big Time Small Screen. (And if this doesn’t get all you TVWriter™ers working on your peer production you deserve what you get…or, in that case, don’t get. CREATE YOUR OWN WEB SERIES, DAMMIT. AL OF YOU!)
- Seth Fisher & Danny MacKey (newbs!) are developing JACKASS OF ALL TRADES, a comedy about a guy trying to make his living via odd jobs on Craigslist, for TBS. (Oh frabjous day! All our announcements are belong to really cool people finally getting the kinds of chances they deserve! Halloo, hallay!)
What’s Behind the Indie TV Prodco Buying Spree?
What’s that? You didn’t know there was one? Well the good folks at Deadline.Com are here to tell you all about it…cuz they’re busy trying to prove that we should always go to them instead of sites like The Hollywood Reporter, Variety, and Deadline’s archenemy, The Wrap.
Dig in and enjoy the benefits of Deadline’s ambition dedication:
Love & Money Dept – TV Writing Deals for 3/24/14
Latest News About Writers Who Are Doing Better Than We Are
by munchman
- Walon Green (LAW & ORDER) has gotten the word to expand his National Geographic KILLING JESUS project into a 4-hour mini-series. (Your munchman is calling this show fictional cuz it’s based on a book by Bill O’Reilly and, you know. I’d never insinuate that Jesus his godly self wasn’t real. Oh no, not moi….)
- Chris Colfer (one of the glamorous and cool stars of the equally glamorous and cool series GLEE) is writing an episode of that very show. (Cuz he’s a pushy little fuck, methinks. At least he was when we took an acting class together. Hi, Chris! Love you, kiddo! Rilly!)
- Marta Kauffman (FRIENDS) & Howard J. Morris (HOME IMPROVEMENT) are developing GRACE AND FRANKIE, about two women who bond cuz their husbands have left both of them for each other for Netflix. (Oh, and the stars are already set: Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin. Could be a lotta fun watching the worlds of those two Big Names collide!)
- Ryan Murphy (AMERICAN HORROR STORY) has optioned the book, Empty Mansions: They Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune by Bill Dedman & Paul Clark Newell Jr. but nobody’s saying if he plans to make it into a film or a TV series. (And here at TVWriter™ I munchman am of course hanging on every clue cuz everybody knows yours truly has absolutely no life at all.)