Category: television writing

The Ultimate Step by Step Guide to Writing for TV

One of TVWriter™’s favorite sites goes all out with a detailed guide on how to write for TV. Our friends at Script Reader Pro have earned the blessing of our Beloved Leader, Larry Brody himself.

Um, these are writers, yeah? Where are their laptops? And their coffee cups?

by Script Reader Pro

How to Write for TV: A Step-by-Step Guide to Starting Your Career

As an aspiring screenwriter, you may have noticed there’s quite a bit of confusing information out there regarding writing for television.

In this post, we’re also going to dispel many of the myths and confusion surrounding writing TV scripts. read article

The Best TV Pilots of the Decade, Ranked

More than anything else, the very successful pilots discussed in this article all had a certain wonderful magic at their very core – which is to say, in the writing.

by Steve Greene, Ann Danahue, LaToya Ferguson, Libby Hill, Ben Travers, Leo Garcia

Each of these 20 series expertly built worlds of their own, breaking the rules to make them feel all the more relevant to ours. read article

LB: Hey, Trekkers, Have You Seen the Official Star Trek Timeline?

by Larry Brody

For reasons so personal that it’s embarrassing, I admit to being thrilled to learn that startrek.com, which is a genuine, real life CBS-owned official Star Trek site, has issued a timeline for the entire Trek universe, including all its alternate dimensions and casts.

This in itself is a very cool thing for Trekkers and even casual fans, but here’s what’s so wonderful to me:

STAR TREK: THE ANIMATED SERIES
IS NOW CANON!!!

And as canon, its stories now are genuine records of events that happened during the last year of the 5 year mission to go where no man one had ever gone before of a certain star ship called The Enterprise, commanded by this dimension’s Capt. James T. Kirk. read article

The 7 Most Influential Shows of the Decade

We disagree with the choices below, but we love it when critics pay attention to the importance of writing and writers and their contributions to the quality of TV. And the writers of the shows below definitely had their shit together.

Okay, so this isn’t Ryan Murphy. But Jessica Lange sure meshed with his creativity on American Horror Story, yeah?

 by Tim Surette

The last 10 years have been pretty weird for almost everyone, but nothing had a better decade than television. From the advent of streaming to finally competing with (and, in some cases, overtaking) the film industry, TV experienced a rate of growth and maturity usually reserved for scrawny junior high school kids over summer break.

And while television undoubtedly left an impact on all of us, its greatest impact was on itself. New trends, new technologies, and new standards all made the decade starting in 2010 massive for TV, and those marks have already started shaping what and how we’ll watch over the next decade. read article

‘Star Trek’ “Short Treks” Stitch ST Canon Together – or Try to Anyway

Promotion-wise, one of the cleverest things CBS All-Access streamer has come up with is a series of short (15 minutes +/-) episodes giving us new glimpses along the Star Trek timeline.  Not only does this give trekkers new info about the Trek Universe, it also explains some early inconsistencies, like Spock’s tendency to smile – sometimes inappropriately – back in ST:TOS season 1.

Can fans live without this info and stay fans? Probably, but this TVWriter™ minion has a confession to make: I love feeling like I’m being catered too. And the Short Treks definitely give me that warm buzz. Especially the one about the Spockmeister: read article