Good-Bye to a TV Great

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What with all the excitement about the end of a the old year and beginning of the new one, with its tumult and hope and celebration, we forgot to post this announcement last week, when it happened.

It’s TVWriter™’s sad duty to report the death of one of the greatest creators of genre material in TV, the UK’s Gerry Anderson, at the age of 83. Anderson’s creation include THUNDERBIRDS, SPACE: 1999, SUPERCAR, CAPTAIN SCARLET AND THE MYSTERONS, UFO, FIREBALL XL5, STINGRAY, and even more science fiction series (all, sadly, before our time, but we’ve certainly loved the compilations). read article

And Now a Few Words About Amazon Studios Comedy Line-Up

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The story so far:

Amazon.Com has decided to get into the online streaming TV series cuz, you know, they’ve been having a good year and want to find a new way to lose money. Professional TV production just bleeds $$$, but it appears that this most popular of shopping sites just can’t keep itself from creating more loss leaders. (Like all those Kindle variations, dig?) read article

The 10 Most Popular (& Unpopular) Posts on TVWriter™ in 2012 Were…

Because you asked for it.

Well, really, you didn’t, but we’re sure you would have if you’d thought of it.

Anyway, here we go, the 10 most popular articles on TVWriter™ since we went to our current format June 1st. “Look on our works, ye mighty, and,” erm, “despair?” read article

The Terracotta Warriors are Coming!

…Thanks to LB’s old friend co-worker  Avi Arad. (Yeah, there’s a story there, but we can’t tell it. Gotta wait for the boss to regale us instead.)

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by Meredith Woerner

Hollywood is hot for China. Both Looper and Iron Man 3 courted the Chinese audience by setting chunks of their movies in the far East. Now, Sony big wig and The Amazing Spider-Manproducer, Avi Arad, is cashing in and starting up a whole new movie franchise based around Chinese lore. read article

munchman: ‘All My Children’ and ‘One Life to Live’ Could Relaunch in January

Okay, okay, so I’m a huge, erm, Susan Lucci fan. So what? Does that mean I lose all my cred?

I’m thrilled, I tells ya, thrilled, to learn the following:

Susan Lucci soap returns-maybe read article