by Herbie J Pilato
THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW (Season 4, Ep. 7: “A Black Day for Mayberry”)
Written by John Whedon
Category: Opinion
Kathy Fuller: In Defense of Binge Viewing
by Kathy Fuller
Or as I like to say, Ken Levine doesn’t know what he’s talking about.
Totes kidding–Ken makes some valid points in his post about binge viewing, especially about the shared TV viewing experience that comes with everyone in the country watching the same cliffhanger and discussing it at work/school/with a friend on a rotary phone…
Yeah, I said rotary. And perhaps many of you are wondering WTH is that? Because if you’re going to talk about your favorite show, it’s not going to be around a cliched water cooler, but on the internet. Twitter, a message board, a TV community–this is where people talk about the shows they obsess about love, and time is fluid on the web. So what if I didn’t watch the Breaking Bad finale until four days after it aired? I can find a message board where they are still talking about it. Dissecting every detail. Establishing conspiracy theories about the actors and writers. Stating how they would rewrite the episode. And that’s way more fun than chit chatting about The Walking Dead five minutes before your fourth class of the day.
Troy DeVolld: Change is Good
EDITOR’S NOTE: LB pal Troy the Boy imparts some vital information for both reality and unreality writers:
Working vs Making
by Troy DeVolld
I’m proud to say that the last three years of my career were spent churning out five seasons of a number one hit for VH1, two of another number one hit for the same network, and a game show that sort of changed everything for me.
I’d forgotten how much fun it is to be in over my head on something I’ve never done before. When I took Hollywood Game Night for NBC this Spring, I had no game shows on my resume. Reality competition galore, yes, but straight-up game shows, no. Zero. Zed. Naught. Nary a one.
With Great Power Comes… a TV Pilot
Overthinking It is back to overthinking. Cuz…overthinking, you know? This time around we find one of the most complete reviews of the first episode of MARVEL’S AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. anybody’s ever going to see:
by Andrew Buonopane
Disney’s ABC’s Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. [has] premiered… to adequate ratings, and is off to the commercially promising start its creators intended. It is difficult to deny the show’s primary purpose (to make enough money to fund Joss Whedon’s production of the complete works of Shakespeare twice over), and other sites have already likened the first episode to a police procedural with Marvel badges. However, in a recent EW interview, Whedon indicated that it’s “basically a TV series of ‘The Zeppo’ [an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer], which was a very deliberate deconstruction of a Buffy episode in order to star the person who mattered the least. The people who are ignored are the people I’ve been writing as my heroes from day one.” Following on this, there is much to indicate that it will be more than just a money-grab.
The Curse Of The Freelancer
Do you know Skip?
That’s okay. If you’re a freelancer, he knows you:
From Skip’s Acorn Treasury
The freelancer’s curse is sending politely chasing emails. You know – when someone approaches you to do something, and at first it’s all “GO! GO! GO!” and then fizzles sadly out. Like an amazing one-night stand. Only, after a one-night stand, we all know the rules – you send a couple of follow up texts, cry and then move on.