Good-Bye to a TV Great

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What with all the excitement about the end of a the old year and beginning of the new one, with its tumult and hope and celebration, we forgot to post this announcement last week, when it happened.

It’s TVWriter™’s sad duty to report the death of one of the greatest creators of genre material in TV, the UK’s Gerry Anderson, at the age of 83. Anderson’s creation include THUNDERBIRDS, SPACE: 1999, SUPERCAR, CAPTAIN SCARLET AND THE MYSTERONS, UFO, FIREBALL XL5, STINGRAY, and even more science fiction series (all, sadly, before our time, but we’ve certainly loved the compilations). read article

Peer Production: BLINK TO THE FUTURE

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DOCTOR WHO! BACK TO THE FUTURE! Together again for the first time.

Just ask the Doctor: Mash-ups are cool. A tip of the TVWriter™ hat to creator/animator James Farr for setting the web animation bar for 2013: read article

Peer Production: The Trials & Tribulations of Shooting Your Own Series Pt. 1

munchman NOTE: And this is just the first day of the first episode! (Hey, nobody said this kind of thing was easy.)

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by Josh Hudson

Man, talk about a headache. read article

The Most Overused Words of 2012

What’s that? 2012 is over, you say? Move on, you demand?

Okay, okay, we will. But first these important, um, words:

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And Now a Few Words About Amazon Studios Comedy Line-Up

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The story so far:

Amazon.Com has decided to get into the online streaming TV series cuz, you know, they’ve been having a good year and want to find a new way to lose money. Professional TV production just bleeds $$$, but it appears that this most popular of shopping sites just can’t keep itself from creating more loss leaders. (Like all those Kindle variations, dig?) read article