And now, in the showbiz spirit of”You ain’t seen nuthin’ yet,” we bring you this look into the future that has, for all practical purposes, is as good – or bad -as already here.
Over five popular seasons, the story lines of “Better Call Saul” have unfolded across nail salons, fried-chicken joints and other strip-mall staples of American life.
Listen up, gang. The ability to understand the thoughts behind notes you get from producers and agents is critical for TV and film writing success. In this article, Lucy V Hay helps you – us, actually – how to navigate through this most dangerous swamp.
Screenplay notes … Love them or hate ’em, we need ‘em! It’s a fact that rewriting your screenplay or television pilot is an absolutely essential part of the successful process of perfecting story, character, structure, tone and theme.
“Yee-hah!”
— Jethro Bodine, as played by Max Baer Jr. on The Beverly Hillbillies
There must be something to being super-dim and mega-handsome. Just ask Jethro Bodine, The Beverly Hillbillies TV character portrayed with earnest by Max Baer, Jr. (who prefers to be known as just Max Baer) on CBS from 1962 to 1971. Jethro may have been born as “mountain folk,” but because his Uncle Jed Clampett (Buddy Ebsen) struck gold (“Texas tea”), he was fortunate enough to have “loaded up the truck and moved to Beverly . . . Hills, that is” — with the entire Clampett family, including Elly May (Donna Douglas) and Granny (Irene Ryan).
Along with popular television shows such as The Lieutenant, Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, affectionately known in many sci-fi sectors as “The Great Bird of the Galaxy,” created a number of other series beyond his most well-known franchise.
Many of Roddenberry’s non-Trek significant TV properties materialized after the initial demise of what is now known as The Original Series, and prior to the development of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, which ignited and expanded his Trek universe into feature films in 1979.
The more recognizable of these non-Trek projects were several unsold made-for-TV science fiction pilots including Genesis II, Questor, Planet Earth, Strange New World, and Spectre…..
I’ll never forget the day I first heard Elizabeth Montgomery’s voice on my answering machine, trailing off and on tape, in bits and pieces, with a chipper, near stuttering rhythm.
I had been attempting to contact the iconic Bewitched star for months. William Asher, her former husband and the show’s core producer/director, had been playing matchmaker for us, recommending that she speak with me.