Hey, we didn’t write this – not all of it anyway
Research Shows Declines for Minority and Women TV Writers Across the Board
All together now: >sigh<
And now the news:
Kudos to frequent TVWriter™ contributor for making a very big score!
by Team TVWriter™ New ServiceAmazon Studios has announced it will debut its first pilot season of 2015 on Thursday, January 15 on Amazon Instant Video in the US, UK and Germany. It’s an almost entirely pro slate, with just a dash of newbyness to keep the punters (if you watch UK TV you know what that means) interested.
Seven drama and comedy pilots will premiere, including hour-long shows “Cocked” from Samuel Baum (“Lie to Me”) and Sam Shaw (“Manhattan”), “Mad Dogs” from Cris Cole (“The Bill”) and Shawn Ryan (“The Shield”), “Man in the High Castle” from Frank Spotnitz (“The X-Files”), and “Point of Honor” from Carlton Cuse (“Lost”) and Randall Wallace (Braveheart).
In addition, pilots for two half hour shows will debut, including “Down Dog” from Robin Schiff (“Are You There, Chelsea?”) and “Salem Rogers” from Will Graham (“Onion News Network”) and newcomer Lindsey Stoddart, along with a documentary series, “The New Yorker Presents,” inspired by non-fiction and fiction material from one of the most acclaimed and longest running publications, The New Yorker. “The New Yorker Presents” is Executive Produced by Oscar and Emmy-winning documentarian Alex Gibney (The Armstrong Lie).
by Team TVWriter™ Press ServiceYes, this is a press release. But it’s got the kind of news we love to read:
DRUMROLL, please……..
After receiving over 1500 submissions to the Disney-ABC Writing Program, and over the course of 7 months of reading over 3000 scripts (spec and original), conducting close to 100 phone interviews and meeting 26 talented finalists we are proud to announce the 2015 Program Writers:
by Team TVWriter™ Press ServiceThe Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced the winners of this year’s Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting, probably the most important screenplay writing competition in the U.S. because of what it can do for the winners’ careers.
The winners (the Academy calls them “fellows” because, hey, “fellowship”) and their screenplays are:
Sam Baron (Cambridge, UK), The Science Of Love And Laughter