Know all those “Best of 2012” things all over the web? Well, here’s one of ours:
Remember when Doritos ran something called the “Crash the Superbowl” contest, looking for the best fan-made Doritos commercial to run at the Super Bowl?
Top TVWriter™ Posts for the Week Ending 12/21/12
Here they are, the most viewed TVWriter™ posts for the week ending Friday, December 21st:
The Perfect Last-Minute Christmas Gift for your TV Writer – And It’s Almost Free!
$4.99, to be precise. Not bad, eh? Especially since it’s one helluva book.
Written by TVWriter™’s boss – Larry Brody, a writer-producer with 40 years of experience in every aspect of television – Television Writing from the Inside Out is a true Insider’s Guide that offers his unique expertise and an outlook that’s the direct result of having written and produced almost 1000 hours of television of all types, from daytime serials to animated children’s series to syndicated, cable, and U.S. and European network primetime series, pilots, and Movies of the Week.
This book examines the entire procedure not only creatively but in terms of how television actually operates. TV as a medium is both creative and commercial, but this really isn’t a fact to be bemoaned. Instead, Television Writing from the Inside Out shows how to make the situation work for you by using creative elements for commercial ends–and commercial elements for creative ones. In fact, it’s so practical that it tells you what neighborhoods to live in when you move to L.A., how to dress, even what kind of car to drive.
Why Does the AFI Hate Network TV?
Um…because the shows on network TV suck?
Yeah, that works for us.
Network Flipflops Dept AKA WTF is Going On in TV These Days?
First, the good news:
Deadline.Com reports that Netflix has expanded its order of the highly awaited return of the previously deceased ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT series from 10 episodes to 12 or possibly even as many as 15. Mitch Hurwitz, the show’s creator-showrunner and prodcos 20th Century Fox TV and Imagine TV have convinced Netflix that it’s in everybody’s best interests, especially the audiences, to give us more, more, more.