We’ll say one thing for the out-of-touch and even more out-of-tune executives of broadcast TV. At least they aren’t giving up.
Now if they could only translate their eagerness to please into something more tangible like, oh, how about some better goddamn WRITING!?
Just a few months ago, we announced the “participants” (read: “winners”) in Universal’s 2018 Writers Program, and whaddaya know? Last week they opened the 2019 version.
Here’s how Cartoon Brew’s Amid Amidi put it:
TVWriter™, the Writers Guild of America West, and Larry Brody want to remind you that time to enter your script is running short.
Our advice to all the pros who’ve written so brilliantly during 2018: Get a move on if you want your shot at one of the most prestigious writing awards around.
The Sundance Institute’s Episodic Lab – yep, the place where they support TV writers, especially new ones – announced its latest fellows yesterday, and Deadline.Com has the story:
Sundance Institute has selected nine original TV pilots for its fifth annual Episodic Lab, which runs from September 27-October 2 at the Sundance Mountain Resort in Utah. Topics and formats range from half-hour comedies about friendships put to the test to historical dramas about the struggle for Native American land sovereignty. Read about the projects and their creators below.
They need us. They really need us.
New writers and filmmakers, we mean. Turns out we’re indispensable in the upcoming New World Order of Media.
But they still won’t love us. Nobody ever loves…writers.