Top TVWriter™ Posts for the Week Ending 3/1/13

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Here they are, the most viewed TVWriter™ posts for the past week:

John Ostrander on Writing Fight Scenes read article

LB: Any Comic Book Writers/Artists Here Need an Agent?

Call Dave Olbrich and tell him I sent you. We’re old friends, and I’m very happy for him. This is a man who really knows his stuff.

(And you all know how I normally never recommend agents.)

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Space Goat Ups Dave Olbrich to Veep, Adds Darren Vicnenzo
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(February 25, 2013- Bellingham, WA) – Space Goat Productions, the premier comic book talent management and production company, adds manager Darren Vincenzo and promotes Dave Olbrich to Vice President to handle another busy year of making great comics, growing careers, helping editors and reviewing portfolios. Space Goat offers a full range of services: everything from comic book creation (interior art, logos, pinups, character designs, full-book packaging, etc.) to motion and interactive comics to project consulting and property development.

Darren Vincenzo, longtime Batman Editor for DC Comics, joins Space Goat as Talent Scout and Talent Manager. With a career that spans over 25 years, and includes offering Space Goat founder Shon Bury his first writing assignment, Vincenzo has developed a keen sense for discovering and developing talent. read article

An Insider’s View of TORCHWOOD – When It Lost Its Way, and How

Chris Chibnall is a British writer and producer who has written some of the best DOCTOR WHO episodes of 2012 (and who some of us here hope takes over as showrunner…soon). Starburst Magazine interviewed him recently, and we’ve snatched it up for you.  Here. Now:

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BY J. R. SOUTHALL

Starburst recently caught up with television writer and producer Chris Chibnall in Dorset, in the very locations used for his new series Broadchurch, to talk about his writing on that and Doctor Who. But first, we discussed his role on the first two series of Torchwood… read article

Love & Money Dept – TV Writing Deals for 3/1/13

Latest News About Writers Who Are Doing Better Than We Are

  •  Melissa Rosenberg (TWILIGHT) has signed on as showrunner for ABC’s drama, BIG THUNDER. (Which, since pilots don’t get “showrunners,” they get “Executive producers,” probably means the series, based on Disney’s (and therefore ABC’s) Big Thunder Mountain ride, is in the bag.)
  • Tyler Perry (TYLER PERRRY’S HOUSE OF PAIN, etc. ) has shifted his TBS comedy, FOR BETTER OR WORSE, to OWN, which will own the first two seasons and also produce a second. (Which is what happens when a smart, rich writer buys a network, which for all practical purposes is what Perry has done.)
  • Emily Spivey (UP ALL NIGHT) has made a deal to develop-write-produce series at 20th Century Fox TV, starting with the animated MURDER POLICE. (Which has to be in better shape than UP ALL NIGHT, which NBC seems to have totally destroyed because, well, probably because it could.)
  • Kurt Sutter (SONS OF ANARCHY) & John Shiban (HELL ON WHEELS) are developing what FX calls “an action horror drama” for the network. (Which is fine by us because it can’t be any worse than the horror of Seth MacFarlane singing, dancing, and driving all the A List stars out of the Oscars audience last Sunday night.)

How YouTube is changing the broadcast TV biz

Fox and The CW are plunging into Wigs and Machinima on YouTube, making TV a whole new game.

Disruption! Chaos!

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