Category: Opinion

And Now a Few Words From Invisible Mikey

LB’s good bud and one of our favorite bloggers (InvisibleMikey) has a spot-on recommendation for our TV viewing:

Sidse Babett Knudsen on BORGEN (No, that isn’t an adjective related to STAR TREK. Sheesh!)

UNconventional – by Invisible Mikey

Ah, politics.  The fakeness, lies and weasel-words.  The facade of assumed importance.  The grand parade of lifeless commodities.  During the weeks the political conventions are broadcast I feel as if quality TV, normally one of my maintenance drugs, is only available from secret labs run by chemistry students.

Just in case you also want to avoid the convention broadcasts, here’s a hidey-hole I discovered.  There’s an award-winning series from Danish TV about a female Prime Minister and politicians who have to choose between family life and serving a nation.  It’s called Borgen, and it’s one of the best political drama series ever made.  Superbly written and performed, it’s a less preachy, more plot-heavy, European version of The West Wing. read article

Peggy Bechko on Selling Out

Well, she doesn’t really call it that ‘cuz she’s a classy lady. Whereas we…hey, you know. Here, from Peggy’s blog, are her thoughts on writing to sell:

Should Writers Write For the Market? – by Peggy Bechko

Yes. read article

Oscar Winner Callie Khouri on H’wood’s Treatment of “Women’s Movies”

Don’t mess with the writer of THELMA AND LOUISE, doods. For any number of very good reasons. (Hey, she created NASHVILLE too.)

Academy Award Winning Writer Callie Khouri Slams Movies About Women As Relegated to Trash Heap – by Melissa Silverstein

Callie Khouri gave the movie business a lot of years of her life.  It’s been an up and down relationship.  The up – winning an Academy Award for writing Thelma and Louise.  The down – wanting to direct and getting pigeon holed into the chick flick box because she had made a movie about women. read article

Even Bigshot Writers Get Rejected Dept

Man, this bugs us!

In a recent article in the U.K.-based Telegraph, Russell T. Davies, the man who brought us the 21st Century DOCTOR WHO, creating not just a fan fave but the biggest cash cow in BBC telly history, explains why he moved to the U.S. and then returned recently to the U.K. and also fills us in on his part in upcoming DOCTOR WHO 50th anniversary festivities: read article

Shows Some Unnamed Writer on HuffPo Won’t Watch Anymore

We’re not upset about the opinions voiced by the writer in the following article, but it does piss us off that s/he isn’t credited. (Especially since rumor has it that HuffPo doesn’t even pay.)

Is ‘Revenge’ Season 2 Bad? See The 7 Shows We’re Quitting This Season

Has “Revenge” Season 2 taken a turn for the worse? Is “Glee” still worth watching for more than just the music? Did “Boardwalk Empire” lose its way? read article