Why should you as a visitor to TVWriter™ be interested in making audio fiction? Why should you be interested in making podcasts? Discoverability, that’s why.
The meaning of the word podcast is evolving to include any episodic, audio-only production whether nonfiction or fiction. Agents and major studios have started trawling through podcasts and their creators for new content and talent.
So here’s the latest news to help you and your podcast get discovered:
Yesterday we brought you news about the WGA negotiations with AMPTP regarding our expiring contract. Today it’s time to talk about this year’s upcoming WGAW Board of Directors election.
Here ya go.
COVID-19 is always on our minds these days, dammit. We are, however, happy to see this positive angle from writer-turned-TV-mogul Greg Berlanti.
TV mogul Greg Berlanti has committed $1 million as part of a COVID-19 relief effort that will see funds going directly to staffers-in-need as well as industry organizations that have stepped up to help Hollywood workers during the unprecedented coronavirus pandemic.
Berlanti announced the donation Wednesday in a letter distributed to employees and production teams across 17 shows, representing a massive roster of 5,000 crew and production staffers. Per the letter, obtained by The Hollywood Reporter, the first $600,000 will go directly to his team members “most in need,” starting with the series that were shutdown “with production incomplete,” including Batwoman, Doom Patrol, The Flash, Riverdale, The Flight Attendant, Supergirl and Prodigal Son. As more is revealed about the severity and duration the pandemic will have on the industry, the hope, he writes, is to then open the fund to the other Berlanti Prods. shows including All American, Black Lightning, The Girls on the Bus, Katy Keene, Legends of Tomorrow, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Stargirl, Superman & Lois, Titans and You.
Good morning! Welcome to another new week at TVWriter™. Here’s a look at the most popular blog posts and resource pages during the last 7 days.
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Actually, this is the future everybody has feared, whether we’re talking showbiz or not. Time now to escape our personal life-or-death situations and turn our attention to the film biz. Who knows? It might even lighten our load.
The movie industry was already on a precipice. Did the pandemic just give it a push?
With theaters shuttered all over the world and hundreds of millions of people ordered to stay at home, it’s unclear when the movie industry can resume business as normal, or even whether that “normal” will look anything like Hollywood wants it to. Pivotal pieces of the film calendar — including the summer-blockbuster season and the year-end awards gantlet — have been thrown into disarray, and in their absence the gulf between streaming media and the theatrical experience may only widen further.