From the officers’ and negotiators’ lips to our ears:
Category: The TV Biz
It’s WGA Day on TVWriter™!
And why not?
Lots of Writers Guild of America, West and East, doings recently, as y’all may have noticed, so we’re devoting this whole day to GuildAc, as the fannish world might call Guild Activity – and, now that we think about it, why shouldn’t the WGAs have fans? Start as a fan, donate time and love to your Guild, move on up to pro ranks–
But we digress. Time for the posts. For the latest on what’s happening in the pro writing world, scroll on up. Why up? Because…interwebs, gang. Inter%#@!Webs.
Reacquainting Yourself with Doctor Who
The lesson to be learned here, kids, boils down to “Make sure your work stays accessible!” We’re talking to you, New Showrunners. Because if you don’t keep the audience coming back to the dance floor, you and your band won’t be invited to the next big event.
Jumping in on Doctor Who
by Mindy Newell
The Doctor: “Time is a structure relative to ourselves. Time is the space made by our lives, where we stand together forever. Time and relative dimension in space. It means life… This is the gateway to everything that ever was and ever can be.
Bill: …Can I use the toilet?“The Pilot,” Doctor Who, Second Series 10, Episode 1
WGA Strike Authorization Vote Results
Like they say in The Lion King, “And so it begins.”
Maybe. Remember, we’re not walking the picket lines yet.
Showbiz Mind Games
by Gerry Conway
LB’s NOTE: Convincing ourselves that whatever show or film etc. we’re making is worth all the time and effort we put in is a show business way of life. Writer-producer Gerry Conway, whom I’ve known since we both were wee tadpoles swimming in Harlan Ellison’s Wonderland pond, brilliantly puts it into real-world perspective:
Hollywood is a weird small town.
That’s hardly a new observation, but new or not, it’s true. And because Hollywood is a weird small town, that’s how I came to know and befriend the man who directed one of Steve Bannon’s alt-right documentaries.