Last Week’s Most Important Cord Cutting Developments 11/20/19

Cord Cutters News’ Luke Bouma gives us the latest on the cord cutting front, from Disney+’s debut to the startling announcement that Hulu is now the largest live TV streaming service with 2.7 users.

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Dawn McElligott: Composer Cracks Glass Ceiling on Way to Carnegie Hall

Composer Diane Jones

by Dawn McElligott

Frustrated as a female musician? Fear not! Diane Jones has been featuring women in music on her radio shows and writing new tunes so women won’t be stuck singing the blues.

When Trio Casals performs “Earth Rise,” at Carnegie Hall on February 5th, it will kick off a new year for its Central New York Composer, Diane Jones.

Leading up to the winter concert, Jones had been creating a virtual symphony of synergy for women in music. At the 16th annual Syracuse International Film Festival, Jones debuted her new score for the screening of a century-old film, “The Doll.” read article

LB: Latest News from the Writers Guild of America-Talent Agency Battlefront

by Larry Brody

Last night, members of the WGA received the following email about a situation with ramifications everywhere. (P.S. This seems to me to be a Good Thing and, I hope, a harbinger of even Better Things to come:)

November 18, 2019
Dear Members, read article

LB: Hey, Trekkers, Have You Seen the Official Star Trek Timeline?

by Larry Brody

For reasons so personal that it’s embarrassing, I admit to being thrilled to learn that startrek.com, which is a genuine, real life CBS-owned official Star Trek site, has issued a timeline for the entire Trek universe, including all its alternate dimensions and casts.

This in itself is a very cool thing for Trekkers and even casual fans, but here’s what’s so wonderful to me:

STAR TREK: THE ANIMATED SERIES
IS NOW CANON!!!

And as canon, its stories now are genuine records of events that happened during the last year of the 5 year mission to go where no man one had ever gone before of a certain star ship called The Enterprise, commanded by this dimension’s Capt. James T. Kirk. read article

10 Most Viewed TVWriter™ Posts of the Week – Nov. 18, 2019

Happy Monday morning everybody!

Hope your weekend has been a great one. Time now for TVWriter™’s latest look at our most popular blog posts and resource pages during the week ending yesterday. They are, in order: read article