Russell T Davies, AKA RTD, is one of this TVWriter™’s writing heroes. Without him, we wouldn’t have had the “New Who” to love for the past 14 years.
He’s no unsung hero by any means, but as far as I’m concerned his song hasn’t been played loudly enough. This interview is mostly about his upcoming BBC series Years and Years, starring Hugh Grant, but what we enjoyed most was the chance to visit a brilliant writer who honestly feels that:
Hey pilgrim, you saying you want to write science fiction? Huh? Huh? And you need some tips?
Well, here are a couple of non sci-fi videos to fulfill your request in the most practical way possible…by showing you what not to do:
Speaking of the Writer-Agent War, did you know that David A. Goodman, President of the Writers Guild of America West is also David A. Goodman Executive Producer of The Orville? And that’s a subject on which he also has a lot to say?
The second season of The Orville concluded last week with the time-bending episode “The Road Not Taken.” TrekMovie had a chance to talk to executive producer David A. Goodman who wrote the episode and we walked about the finale, the second season in general, and what’s next for the show. We also talked a bit about Star Trek as Goodman is a former writer/producer on Star Trek: Enterprise and he has also written a number of Star Trek books.
What goals did you have going into the season that you feel the second season of The Orvilleachieved?
The WGA is doing everything it can think of to help currently agentless writers (just about all of us, for obvious reasons) during this staffing season.
To that end, the Writers Guild of America West has released a schedule of writer-producer fees showing the median and maximum amounts your peer writer-producers currently are bringing in, so, you know, we can ask for it too.
Ever wonder how reboots of classic – or at least popular – films go bad? Here’s an insight into what went wrong with the 2018 reboot of Predator. Hint: It all began with amazingly faulty thinking from supposedly intelligent businessmen. And then there was, you know, the writing….
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