Category: News

Hey, Millennials, Welcome Your New Cable Network!

Um, too bad millenials don’t watch TV. When is some genius going to give us what we’ll really use – an online network of original material that we can watch on our phones or, when our parents are out, connect to their big-honking-assed TVs?

But for now:

pivot_pmby Team TVWriter™ Press Service
(yeppers, it’s a press release)

Pivot, Participant Media’s new cable network targeting millennials, The New Greatest Generation, will launch August 1, 2013. read article

WGAW’ers! Need a Good Reason to Vote for Incumbents?

WGAW officer and Board of Directors voting is coming up in September, and here’s the sure sign that the campaigning has begun in earnest:

WGAW Guild Screenings CaptureSee, the Film Society was something members had to pay for, but Guild Screenings will be free, and the current administration approved this move plus all the renovations, so we gotta love ’em, right?

Of course, some people might say that holding the line against doing free rewrites and doing all kinds of free preliminary outlining with producers and directors might be a better way to “make things more fun,” but they’re not us. Nosirree. Give us bread and circuses over substance any time!

Will Google Put the Final Bullet into the Head of “Old TV?”

We’re thinking that if any person/place/thing can speed up the changeover from traditional stand-alone-in-the-middle-of-your-wall-TV to totally-personalized-interweb-viewing it’s Google. And now it looks like they’re thinking that too:

Report: Google Interested In Providing Cable TV On Internet Channels, But It Won’t Be Easy
by Mary Beth Quirk

The still waters of the cable TV industry might run deep, but if companies like Google keep splashing around in them, we might see an alternative to the traditional bundling model — but it ain’t gonna be easy. A new report says Google is entertaining the idea of possibly offering cable channels over broadband Internet connections, something that would likely meet with a major pushback from cable and satellite providers.

Like its fellow tech giant Intel, Google is reportedly interested in licensing TV channels for an Internet cable service, say insiders cited by the New York Times. read article

Digital tools don’t make students better writers

What? Rilly? Amaaazing–

In other words, we’re filing this in the “Why Are We Not Surprised? Department, because we know damn well that having more digital writing tools just makes us lazier writers instead of better ones.

Oh crap. We just gave away this whole article: read article

“Calvin & Hobbes” Coming to the Big Screen

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Calvin & Hobbes was the comic strip of the late ’80s and early ’90s. It was brilliantly drawn, just as brilliantly written, and installed awe in everyone who saw it, whether they were readers or artists or publishers.

Bill Watterson, its creator, retired the strip at the end of 1994, saying that he had reached the point where he would never be able to outdo what he’d already done and with that challenge behind him he was going to relax. read article