Hey there, old-timers and millennials! Feeling deprived? Missing anthology shows like Twilight Zone, Playhouse 90, and all that other legendary top-quality TV?
Well, turns out that those TV and digital entertainment execs we all love so much are already in the saddle, riding to your – oh, hell, we mean our – rescue!
Our fingers already are crossed for this, just in from the WGAW:
Dear WGAW Member,
Further proof that it ain’t yer father’s TV biz anymore. Who sez this isn’t the Golden Age of Electronic Media and, you know, writing for same?
Opportunity awaits. Time to make a move, yeah?
by Jimi Famurewa
And this time it looks like they really mean it:
With the Sundance Film Festival just finished, filmmakers whose films didn’t get sold during the festival are now trying to come up with a strategy to stay relevant in the eyes of buyers.
In the hopes of attracting some of the movies that aren’t having distributors knocking down their doors, Amazon announced before the festival began that any feature film that played at this year’s Sundance can join its Amazon Video Direct platform, a service that Amazon touts as being a “self-service publishing interface, without the need for complex negotiations or contracts.”
Writer and Executive Producer of the recent ABC pilot based on the s-f classic novel and film Time After Time, Danny Thomsen’s career has been a source of great joy for Our Beloved Leader, LB, and many other long-time TVWriter™ers.
If memory serves (and we can’t promise that it does) Danny started his writing career in one of LB’s Online Workshops, continued with a TVWriter™ Spec Scriptacular Semi-Finalist finish, and then shifted into high gear after he graduated from college and made the move from his East Coast home to L.A. (and LB’s guest room for awhile, or so we hear.)
TVWriter™ minions have long wanted to do a feature on Mr. Thomsen and his enviable career, but when we finally had the chance to go for it a couple of months ago, lo and behold, it turned out that a site called Syracuse.Com had beaten us to it.