Latest News About Writers Who Are Doing Better Than We Are
by munchman
Marc Klein (MIRROR, MIRROR) is developing KISMET, a parallel-reality love story, for the mighty Amazon Studios. (Does this mean that Amazon’s pay scale is a little better for established writers than it is for the newbies it’s taking advantage of? Or has Marc fallen on some very hard times? Dude, let us know!)
Freemantle Media is developing a TV series based on The Hunchback of Notre Dame. (So if you know anybody there, are friends with the project’s producer-director Roland Joffe, or are an old bud of original writer Victor Hugo now is the time to get in touch with them and become part of one of the dumbest-sounding project your friendly neighborhood munchman has ever watched other people taking seriously.)
Steve Levitan (MODERN FAMILY) has just made what munchie absolutely guarantees is a better deal then Marc Klein’s with 20th Century Fox TV, where he’ll be creating, creating, creating from the luxury of his palatial estate. muncho salues you, m’friend.)
His Satanic Majesty Les Moonves and his minions have announced what shows are coming back next Fall. So all you old-timers who watch that fabulous “Least Desired Demographic” network, sit back in your recliners and take note of what CEO Moonves’ diabolical demons are up to.
“The best way to launch new shows in the fall and throughout the season is to surround them with a strong and stable lineup of successful series,” said Nina Tassler, Chairman of CBS Entertainment earlier this week. “The shows we’re picking up today cut across every night of the week and feature genre leaders, time-period winners and the most-watched shows on broadcast television.”
The 18 series announced today comprise 15.5 hours of CBS’s weekly primetime schedule and include nine dramas, five comedies, two reality series and two news programs.read article
Cuz, we assume, nobody was watching it as the Hallmark Movie Channel. In October, though, it’ll be called Hallmark Movies & Mysteries, and then, boy, will we ever see a jump in popularity.
Right?
Especially with the new logo it’s gonna get.read article
Direct from the WGAW website, the most complete and informative contest winner announcement TVWriter™ has ever seen. (We knew you could do it cuz…pro writers, y’know?)
2014 Writer Access Project
The Diversity Department of the Writers Guild of America, West is pleased to announce the honorees for the 2014 WGAW Writer Access Project, a program designed to identify excellent, diverse writers with television staffing experience.
Qualified WGAW members were invited to submit their work in one of five diversity categories: minority writers; writers with disabilities; women writers; writers age 55 and over; and gay and lesbian writers.
In other words, he’s part of a new company finding new ways to create the ever-popular old buzzword/concept “synergy.” All we can say is we hope this works better – and therefore lasts longer – than, you know, HEROES:
Now this is nerd power. Yah! (We mean that in the most positive way. For reals.)
by Mike Fleming Jr.
Heroes creatorTim Kring has joined forces with Blacklight founder Zak Kadison and longtime Farrelly brothers producer Bradley Thomas to form Imperative Entertainment, a production company launched with financing from Dan Friedkin and his Friedkin Group. The Houston-based entrepreneur made his fortune through automotive and other ventures, and he will fully finance a company designed to use the trio’s skills and relationships to exploit seams in a fast-changing industry. This, they hope, will provide a strong alternative for content creators who want to develop material across multiple platforms including television, movie, video game, books, comics and new media.
I met the quartet in the two-story Santa Monica headquarters they are building. At that time, the sheetrock hadn’t been hung over the aluminum studs, and Friedkin didn’t expect the space to be ready until early next month. The venture already has gotten up and running, though. They are building their first slate and have just hired their first executive. They’ve brought in Justin Levy, the former senior veep and Head of Scripted Series Programming at MTV, who takes the post of EVP Content. At MTV, Levy helped build the channel’s scripted programming that includes Teen Wolf and Awkward.read article
by Team TVWriter™ Press Service
