Category: News

Adult Swim Makes Our Day

‘Cuz not only do we love the show, we have friends hard at work on it! Yay, friends! (Taking us out for dinner soon?)

This has been on for 6 seasons already? Gulp…

Adult Swim Renews ‘Robot Chicken’ for Seventh Season – by Leslie Goldberg (Hollywood Reporter)

Adult Swim has renewed Robot Chicken for a seventh season.

Co-creators and executive producers Seth Green and Matthew Senreich used their platform Friday at New York Comic-Con to make the announcement that the series will return with all new episodes in 2013. read article

H’wood Mounts Its Gender Bias Defense

…And puts women showrunners in the front lines so everybody knows the ladies are being exploited at the same time they’re being dissed getting a fair shake after all.

14 Women are in The Hollywood Reporter’s Top 50 Showrunners of 2012 – by Kerensa Cadenas (Hollywood Reporter)

The Hollywood Reporter recently named their Top 50 Showrunners of 2012 for both comedy and drama. 14 of the 50 showrunners named were women. And women made up 4 of the 11 on the Showrunners to Watch list. Despite the recent and continuing frustrating news regarding women in television, I’m hoping that the recentinflux of women-created television news continues to up these numbers. read article

Who Says Web Series Aren’t the Future of TV?

Fairfax, one of Australia’s largest media companies, says it is.

And inasmuch as they’re Big Dogs in the country that gave us WILFRED, we’re all ears:

Show Doing Well on BitTorrent? We’ll Buy It, Says Media Giant – by Ernesto

Fairfax’s head of video Ricky Sutton has admitted that his company’s acquisition strategy is in large part based on what content is popular on BitTorrent. Not only is Fairfax using BitTorrent as a market research tool, the company also admits to advertising their content offerings directly on BitTorrent sites, in an attempt to convert pirates into paying customers. read article

Love & Money Dept – TV Writing Deals for 10/16/12

The Beverly Hills are alive with the sound of, “Cha-ching!”
  •  Jeff Lowell (COMMON LAW, JOHN TUCKER MUST DIE) & Emma Koenig are writing a sitcom pilot for NBC based on Koenig’s blog, “F*ck! I’m in My Twenties” (proving that TV executives love titles they can’t put on TV).
  • Kenya Barris (SOUL FOOD, GIRLFRIENDS, THE GAME) is “co-creating” FIVEHEAD, a sitcom for ABC, with Tyra Banks, on whose life the show is based (the fact that Barris is listed as “co-creator” and not “writer” proving that even though this is supposed to be a “scripted” series, Ms. Banks has no idea whatsoever what that means).
  • Joseph McGinty Nichol & Daniel Cerone (creators of SUPERNATURAL, CHUCK, CHARMED, DEXTER)) have sold #RESISTANCE, a series about a kickass woman cop turned vigilantes to CBS (the hashtag proving CBS is much younger/hipper/nerdier than the world previously believed.)
  • NBC is planning a new series, WUNDERLAND, written by Anthony Zuiker (CSI), about a time in the future when Alice has become an evil queen fighting to stop a young rebel from – you guessed it – the other side of the looking glass – from overthrowing her (proving that nobody at NBC knows what Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland was all about. Nor, it would seem, do they care).

Another Top Pro Brings a Project to Kickstarter

The Good News:

After 2 years of trying to find a studio home for it, David Fincher still wants to do a feature film version of The Goon (our roommate’s favorite comic), and he has Eric Powell, the creator of the book, on his side and Paul Giamatti and Clancy Brown as the stars. So, hat firmly in hand, he’s taken to Kickstarter.Com. read article