Category: News

Starz CEO Looking for New Projects

Hey, we aren’t making this up. Chris Albrecht is all gung-ho about his network, and not only does he want and expect the best, he’s the most thoughtful, creative executive in the medium. (That one’s per our BL, LB, and who are we to argue?)

So don’t just sit there, call your agents!

Starz Prepares To Develop A Comedy But Will “Tread Cautiously”
by David Lieberman

The project to be announced “soon” will be the first half-hour sitcom developed by Starz since CEO Chris Albrecht took charge in 2010, he told analysts today. (Earlier Starz had comedies includingHead Case, Party Down, and Gravity.) But it doesn’t represent a shift from his focus on dramas. read article

The Truth About the Latest War Between Warner Cable & CBS

It ain’t whatcha think. Or at least what the combatants want you to think.

We found this analysis fascinating…in kind of a disgusted-with-humanity way. Take a look and you’ll see what we mean:

cbshatesyou read article

DOCTOR WHO’s John Barrowman has this great idea

File under “If Only…”

Just like everybody else, actors have ideas. And just like everybody else’s ideas, some of them are good. What separates actors from writers, though, is that we actually turn those ideas into stories and write them down for others to read/see/hear.

We’d love to turn this into one of those stories. Or even sit and watch as the idea’s source, John Barrowman AKA Captain Jack of DOCTOR WHO and TORCHWOOD fame, wrote his way into television history. read article

A Cautionary Tale for Hollywood Writers

Repeat after us:

“We don’t pay to be produced. The producers pay us.”

Again. Again… read article

Ooh, Pivot TV Boss is Getting Pissy

Oh well, at least he’s good looking.

That’s what’s important to us millennials, right?

Our last post on this subject – um, today anyway: read article