Latest News About Writers Who Are Doing Better Than We Are=&0=&Justin Halpern & Patrick Schumaker (S#*! MY DAD SAID) just made an overall deal with Warner Brothers TV. (Cuz their last show turned to S#*! which means they’ll work for peanuts now. And don’t have to be paid nearly their weight in bitcoins…but don’t worry; their agents are painting a much rosier pic for them cuz that, in case you wondered, is what agents really do.)
Jackie and Jeff Filgo (THE NEW ADVENTURES OF OLD CHRISTINE) are writing SAVE THE DATE, for CBS. The show’s a comedy, natch, about a woman “who drunkenly books a wedding venue and is now faced with the task of meeting the right man in the right time.” (Which is all well and good, but what’s gonna happen in the show after the teaser? Legs, Mr. Moonves, legs – don’t you want a show that has ’em?)
Category: TV Writing Deals
Love & Money Dept – TV Writing Deals for 2/5/14
Latest News About Writers Who Are Doing Better Than We Are=&0=&Rob Schneider (ROB) is co-writing (with wife Patricia Azarcoya Schneider), starring in, producing, and financing his own series, which he says is heavily influenced by FAWLTY TOWERS. (Rob’s doing the whole indie series thing here, with nobody to answer to but, well, himself and Patricia. In other words, we’re talking new paradigm – so your truly is all for it in every possible way. Go get ’em, tiger!)
Craig Brewer (HUSTLE & FLOW) has a new overall deal with Paramount TV and will be writing, directing and producing two drama pilots. (Which myself think is awesome cuz…hey, this dude knows something. He’s fucking good, you know?)
Wilton Barnhardt’s novel Lookaway, Lookaway has been optioned by HBO for a comedy series described as “a scathing comic window into the dysfunction of the American family, as Old South traditions clash with 21st Century realities….” (The producers are Sue Nagle and David Minor, and they’re looking for a writer, so if you or somebody you love knows ’em, have you peeps get in touch.)
Love & Money Dept – TV Writing Deals for 2/2/14
Latest News About Writers Who Are Doing Better Than We Are
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- Ann Peacock (THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA) is adapting The Dovekeepers historical novel about the Siege of Masada for CBS. (And don’t let anybody tell you there’s a happy ending. The Masada story is the original, “everybody dies, feel bad but try to keep on breathing tale from way back when. I don’t care how well it gets down, I’m definitely passing on viewing.)
- Paul Corrigan & Brad Walsh (MODERN FAMILY) have a new overall deal with 20th Century Fox TV and will keep on keeping on as exec producers of the show. (Why report on overall deals? Um…cuz I really wish I had one? Yeah, that’s right, I really, really do.)
- Nic Pizzolatto (TRUE DETECTIVE) has a new overall deal at HBO which is really a way of keeping him around for another season of TRUE DETECTIVE even though nobody’s seen the damn show yet. (Yeah, I’d take Nic’s deal, but, hell, I’d rather have his name. What a great damn name!)
Love & Money Dept – TV Writing Deals for 1/29/14
Latest News About Writers Who Are Doing Better Than We Are=&0=&The Formerly Funny Hack Comedian Known as Bill Cosby is looking for a writer for a new NBC comedy series he’s going to star in and which is going to resemble his old NBC comedy series as much as possible. (Usually, this is where I tell you to talk to your agent and get a meeting but Bill Cosby? Word is that he’s the toughest/worst boss in TV since Jack Webb. Who was Jack Webb? Holy crap, do I have to tell you everything? Google him, gang, just google him.)
David O. Russell (Yeah, that David O. Russell) & Susannah Grant are developing an ABC series described as “upstairs/downstairs at a private country club,” and no, it isn’t a comedy, it’s said to be an out and out soap. (David O. Russell running a soap. I’d pay to see that. Well, maybe not, but I’ll tune in the first episode…if I remember to set my DVR, that is.)
Mike Sikowitz (RULES OF ENGAGEMENT) is now the showrunner of CBS’s upcoming comedy series THE McCARTHYS, about “a sports-crazed Irish Catholic clan in Boston and the gay son…whose greatest sin is…his desire to spend less time with his family.” (We’re saying “new series” even though they’re only just now shooting the pilot cuz…why call a guy a showrunner unless you have a show for him to run?)
Love & Money Dept – TV Writing Deals for 1/23/14
Latest News About Writers Who Are Doing Better Than We Are=&0=&Tara Butters & Michele Fazekas (DOLLHOUSE) are creating/writing/producing AGENT CARTER, a spinoff of the CAPTAIN AMERICA character for, natch ABC. (And it better be better than AGENTS OF SHIELD, you hear me? Do ya? I mean it! Cuz there’s just so much disappointment a Marvel Maniac can take, you know?)
Thomas Kelly (COPPER) has signed a new overall deal with AMC to write/produce/develop/you know the drill TV stuff. (Kelly’s an amazing prose writer as well as a TV and film guy. In fact, he’s kind of my hero, so this is muy exciting.)
Amy Poehler (PARKS AND RECREATION) has a new overall deal with NBC. Her first project is as co-creator of the tentatively titled OLD SOUL, a comedy about a woman trying to find herself by working with “a group of elderly people.” (Hoo, boy! More funny old folks! My grandparents can hardly wait! Although maybe that’ll be an inducement for them to stay alive. No, not to watch but so they can complain? Geema, whatcha think?)
Jon Robin Baitz (BROTHERS & SISTERS) is writing THE SLAP, an NBC miniseries about “what happens when a man slaps another couple’s misbehaving child at a family BBQ.” (Am I wrong in thinking that this will either be intentionally hilarious as hell…or unintentionally hilarious as hell? See how I did that? Got this thing totally covered now.)