This is a must-watch. We swear. And this ep has kind of an interesting guest star:
Category: Peer Production
The One Film Every New TV Writer Must See
…And it wouldn’t hurt the film types either.
If you want to know what it’s really like to toil in the diamond mines of episodic television, run, do not walk, to SHOWRUNNERS, a documentary that tells the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
Directed by Des Doyle, the full-length film features the most powerful cast of superstar TV showrunners this side of, oh, Venus, including:
munchman: Using YouTube to Brag About Robbing a Bank Might Be a Mistake
Yeah, we know this story is all over the interwebs, but it’s a slow news day, especially in showbiz. See, everybody who’s anybody is on vacation, and has been, since Thanksgiving and won’t be back in the proverbial saddle (AKA the casting couch) till after January 1st.
The A-Listers, and those behind-the-scenes types who control the destinies of said A-Listers (studio heads, attorneys, managers, agents, accountants) are all in Hawaii.
Peer Production: SHE GOT PROBLEMS Heading from YouTube to ABC
We said a little about this deal earlier today here, but this is your chance to see what a web video that goes big time looks like. Hint: It doesn’t appear all that expensive. Hit up your parents and let talent and fate do the rest:
And, yeah, we admit that Ms McDonald’s no noob. She was a writer-story editor on NURSE JACKIE. More importantly, though, she took a shot…and, honest, you can too.
Peer Production: A Fine Art School Gives Us Some Mighty Fine Art
We’re big fans of the work being done at the Media Design School in Auckland, New Zealand. Here’s one of their latest projects, an animated short about two robots reacting to…well, watch and you’ll see: