Boy, talk about a tough audience:
The showrunners said they didn’t need full, 10-episode installments for seasons 7 and 8, but the breakneck pace ‘Thrones’ has taken is a clear departure from years past and comes with disheartening side effects
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?
An interview with a couple of great guys who helped create pop culture (back when it was really, really, really popular too):
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.
(UPDATE: We should remove the “(Some of)” from the title of this post because Sunday, the rest of the Daytime Emmys were given out, including the one for “Best Writing Team for a Drama Series.” Winning that one was the team for “The Young and the Restless,” on CBS. TVWriter™ congratulates the team, although we wish the P.R. had included their names. The way this whole thing is run is, well, just plain wrong.)
Last Friday, the Daytime Emmy Creative Arts Awards were at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium. More award also were given out at the 46th Annual Daytime Emmys, and we’ll deal with those in another post. (Why are there different ceremonies? Well, it’s a long story, kids, and too complicated to go into here, so how about we just use this one word label: “Privilege.” Anyway, here are Friday’s Writing Awards:)