The English language is changing. Always has been and always will. Since the birth of the interwebs, new words have been springing up like dragons sown from, erm, dragons’ teeth.
But here’s a change that involves way more than online communication, and it’s driving trad English teachers Ka-razy:
We admit it. TVWriter™ has been dead set against most reboots on principle for, like, forever, and included in that blanket mindset have been all efforts to bring back, modernize, or even duplicate one of the most beloved TV series of the ’60s, a little bit of witchery called Bewitched.
Then we saw the following article, including comments like these from our very own Contributing Editor Emeritus, Herbie J Pilato.
Found while perusing our absolutely most favorite interweb film site since our last most favorite interweb film site…so you know this is great stuff, yeah?
If you’re a fan of romantic movies you’ve probably wondered if your favourite one can pass the Bechdel test. But what is it?
It’s pretty simple, to pass the Bechdel test means to follow those three rules:
Rumor (should we say “rumour”) has it that UK TV is the best-written television on the planet. Not having seen or read all the TV on Earth (or even in the UK or U.S.) we can’t quite go that far.
UK TV, however, definitely has more than its share of brilliant writers and producers. Here’s what Russell T. Davies, Nicola Shindler, Julian Fellowes, Steven Moffat and others we believe are the best of the best have to say about TV today:
Why is a site called TVWriter™ showing a video about how bad contemporary music has become? We’re pretty sure that if you watch awhile you’ll figure it out. (If you don’t, just get in touch and we’ll sing our own little song.)
Got it now? Here’s a hint anyway: As far as we’re concerned, having NO ART is better than being stuck with corporately created art…and that’s mostly what’s filling our eyes and ears and brains in these oh-so-corporate times.
As LB might put it: “Sigh.”