Category: Opinion

How to Network & Collaborate (Successfully!) Online

by Bri Castellini

How to find your community

Sign up for industry newsletters and email lists

For filmmaking in particular, it’s not hard to find newsletters that are relevant to you. Newsletters are a great way to figure out where your peers are hanging out on a regular basis, get updates on upcoming events (online and off), and who in your industry you should be paying attention to. And might I just drop in to say that if you sign up for the Stareable newsletter 1 you’ll also receive a 32 page eBook on marketing? Something to think about. read article

The Thousand and One Opinions of ‘Star Trek: Discovery – ‘Brother’

Anson Mount as Capt. Pike, from Siskoid’s

Fans have been arguing about whether CBS’ Star Trek: Discovery is absolute genius or total dreck since the series premiered in 2018. Now it’s 2019 (“Oh, really? I’ll be damned”), and last week brought us the second season premiere–

Which, believe it or don’t, has begotten a whole new, ahem, “discussion” of genius versus dreck, shit versus Shinola, and on and on and on. Inasmuch as our feckless leader, Larry Brody, was an early disciple of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry (in other words, he spent much of his early career working for the Great Bird His Very Self, writing for a variety of projects including ST:TAS, ST: TNG, and ST:VOYAGER) we here at TVWriter™ also have found ourselves caught up in the debate, we thought we’d give y’all some samples of current thinking.

Let the debate begin! read article

More About ‘You’

Time now for another perspective on a not-so-little series called You, which not only has become a streaming TV giant, it also catapulted last week’s TVWriter™ article called From the Cable Graveyard to Netflix Darling: Something Amazing Happened to ‘YOU’ to the top of our list of visitors’ fave posts.

Here’s the skinny:

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A Message from TVWriter™’s First Contributing Editor, Herbie J Pilato

by Herbie J Pilato

Last Friday was the official pub-date of my new book, MARY: THE MARY TYLER MOORE STORY, on the 2nd Anniversary of Mary’s passing.

Below are two excerpts of the book; one from the Television Academy and Emmys.com; the other in Closer Magazine.

And on the left is a photo expressing my utter delight of seeing this book come into being. read article

Your Favorite Authors Recommend Their Favorite Books

Every wonder what the writers you worship/adore actually worship/adore themselves? Here’s the scoop:

by Gregory Cowles

IF WISHES WERE BOOKS: It’s holiday time. So in keeping with a loose tradition at Inside the List, I asked a handful of best-selling authors to talk up their favorite reads of 2017, old or new. Granted, not everybody will find a limited 1909 edition of “Gulliver’s Travels.” But we can wish. read article