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Latest News About Writers Who Are Doing Better Than We Are
- Garth Ennis & Steve Dillon (PREACHER comic series) are developing the comic about a Texas preacher and the various manifestations of evil he hangs with as a series for AMC. (And we think it could really work there cuz it makes BREAKING BAD look all warm and fuzzy.)
- Jan Nash (MEMPHIS BEAT) is the new showrunner on RIZZOLI & ISLES. (So if you know her, time to take the nice lady to lunch and pitch your little heart out while she’s still re-staffing.)
- Chad Kultgen (THE INCREDIBLE BURT WONDERSTONE) has written the pilot for NBC’s BAD JUDGE, a comedy about a “hard-living, sexually unapologetic woman” who also happens to be a criminal court judge. (We see exactly how this would work as a drama. But comedy? We’re looking forward to seeing this one to find out.)
- Amanda Lund & Matt Gourley (GHOST GHIRLS web series) are writing WUNDERLAND, a Fox comedy about what it’s like to work at a place just like Disneyland that, of course, isn’t Disneyland. (We had our hopes up for about a second…but then we saw that Diablo Cody is the producer. So we’re going out on a limb to say that this one will probably be…meh.)
- Erin Ehrlich (AWKWARD) is writing an unnamed NBC comedy about “young 20-something nursing students” and “their ups and downs.” (Aren’t you glad they included the word “young” as well as the actually, you know, age? Cuz otherwise we all might have thought they were old 20-somethings, right?)
Latest News About Writers Who Are Doing Better Than We Are
- Carter Bays & Craig Thomas (HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER ) and Emily Spivey UP ALL NIGHT) are writing the pilot for CBS’s comedy, HOW I MET YOUR FATHER. (And, yeppers, it’s the same show only…different. The perfect network TV pilot – that is, unless viewers rebel.)
- Paul Scheuring (PRISON BREAK) is writing an “event” series about RASPUTIN, the Russian Imperial family’s favorite healer/sex fiend, for FX. (Politics! Sex! Violence! Sex! Intrigue! Sex! OMG, This baby even has HOW I MET OUR FATHER beat.)
- Dan Lagana (ZACH STONE IS GONNA BE FAMOUS) is writing the pilot for the NBC comedy STAND-UP GUY, about a stand-up comedian who also juggles his husband-and-fatherly duties. (A showbiz guy who spends time with his family? No way. This calls for way too much suspension of belief.)
- Margaret Nagle (BOARDWALK EMPIRE) is adapting the Spanish series POLSERES VERMELLES into THE RED BAND SOCIETY, a dramedy about a group of teenagers “living in a hospital” who become friends. (Why do we think that the “living in a hospital” thing is a mistranslation? Now we’re wondering what other confusion awaits us in the final conversion.)
- Sign of the times: A Chinese company is planning to develop and shoot a Chinese language TV drama series in Seattle. No writer is mentioned so if you know something about the country this could be your lucky break. (Just be sure that you also know how to keep your scenes in as many interiors as possible cuz…Seattle? Outdoors? Lotsaluck!)
Latest News About Writers Who Are Doing Better Than We Are
- Matt Greenberg (1408 ) is writing a version of some old manuscript called BEOWULF for Syfy. (And all we can do is…hmm, come to think of it, there’s absolutely nothing we can do, or even say. This idea doesn’t even rouse us enough to shrug. How about you?)
- Christopher Hampton (DANGEROUS LIASONS) is turning his Oscar winning screenplay for said project into a TV series at the BBC. (Which hopes to get it onto U.S. TV cuz…$$$. (Are we looking forward to a series about an evil couple who spend all their time corrupting/debauching innocents? Should we be? Gotta admit that our answer to one of those questions is, “Yeppers!” Can you guess which one?)
- Bob Brush (THE WONDER YEARS) is writing STAR CRAZY, a drama abut a young Latina singer as she rises from poverty to fame and fortune for The CW. (Does this mean that Selina Gomez has conquered the world and become a mythic character all by her lonesome? Without the Bieb? Ain’t life grand?)
- The brotherly writing team of Roberto Benabib & Kim Benabib are writing the pilot for THE BRINK an HBO comedy about dirty politics and stuff like that. (HOUSE OF CARDS with episodes that only take half as long to watch? If so, our hat is off to Netflix for starting what could be an interesting trend? Or is this doomed to end up just another same-old, same-old? Whatcha think?)
- Katie Ford & Jane Ford’s Canadian series, WORKING THE ENGELS, is coming to the U.S. via NBC in what’s billed as “the first sitcom collaboration between a U.S. and Canadian broadcaster.” (Our experience with comedy is Canada urges us to label this an impending disaster, but we’re happy to be corrected by anyone out there with a good sense of humor. Canadians, of course, need not apply cuz…comedy, y’know?
Are we gonna get in trouble for this?)
Latest News About Writers Who Are Doing Better Than We Are
- Shane Dawson (Newb Who’s a Big Deal on Youtube, bitches! ) has sold a comedy series, LOSIN’ IT, to NBC, and Darlene Hunt will write the pilot based on their story. (The show is a workplace comedy about a weight loss center, which to us means that it’ll get a huge tune-in for the first episode. But will its viewers then be able to keep to their LOSIN’ IT diet? Or will NBC screw it up?)
- Ricky Blitt (THE FAMILY GUY) is developing a comedy called HERE’S YOUR DAMN FAMILY for Fox. (And we don’t care what its about or how well – or badly – it’s executed, we’ll watch the series out of absolute, unconditional love for the title.)
- Melissa Rosenberg (DEXTER) is writing JESSICA JONES for ABC, based on the Marvel Comics 2nd – maybe even 3rd – tier character. (But the important thing here is that it’s a superhero adventure series centered on a woman, and that’s huge in both the TV and comics industries, where discrimination has always been solidly entrenched. Fingers so crossed for this one.)
- Joe Hill (LOCKE & KEY comic book) is writing a reboot of TALES OF THE DARKSIDE. (Which is good news even to re-boot hating TVWriter™, mainly cuz we’d thought Team Mediocrity AKA Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, were going to have that gig. Yeah, we know, calling those guys mediocre is actually giving them the benefit of the doubt. But that’s us…kind to a fault!)
- Tim Kring (HEROES) & Gideon Raff (HOMELAND) are writing DIG, a 6 episode action series for USA about an FBI agent in Jerusalem who discovers a 2000 year conspiracy that’s about to come to fruition. (You know the rest, world-shaking danger ensues…with each episode becoming more tedious than the one that preceeded it until, at the end, only about 1/5 of the original audience is there to see how it ends. Cuz…HEROES and HOMELAND, you know?)
Latest News About Writers Who Are Doing Better Than We Are
- Robert Kirkman (THE WALKING DEAD) has sold OUTCAST, an exorcism drama based on his upcoming comic book of the same name, to Cinemax. (Cuz you really can’t put all our eggs in one zombie. And everybody knows that exorcists are gonna be the Next Big Thing. What? You didn’t? Oh well…)
- Jeffrey Lieber (NECESSARY ROUGHNESS) is writing and showrunning a Fox “event series” called EVEREST about, you know, mountain climbing. (He’s putting the finishing touches on his writers room even as we, um speak, so getcher agent on the phone. Pronto!)
- Salim Akil (THE GAME) is creating, writing, directing, starring and, of course, showrunning MR. DIRECTOR, an HBO comedy that’s reputedly just like CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM only – aw, you guessed it – about “Black Hollywood.” (Silly us. We thought all of Hollywood was black. Black-hearted anyway. And no, we do not mean “Black at heart.” That would be considerably different. And hipper.)
- Akiva Goldman (A BEAUTIFUL MIND) & Jeff Pinkner (FRINGE) are co-writing a pilot based on the 1990 hit GHOST, about – maybe – this dead guy who’s trying to protect his beautiful wife but… (Yeppers, we love the film. But how’re they gonna do it without Patrick Swayze? Unless…oh, wait, he’s already a ghost, no? So…)
- Drew Goddard (LOST) will be writing and showrunning DAREDEVIL in its new direct-to-Netflix web/TV adventures. (Which we find genuinely exciting cuz…Daredevil done by the man who directed THE CABIN IN THE WOODS just screams with awesome.)