DOCTOR WHO – The Broadway Musical

If this was really intended for Broadway we’d be freaked out and probably angry for reasons having nothing to do with its quality. (Proprietary fan knee-jerk reflex thing, you know?) But as a fan video we find it, well, how does “incredible” sound?

And, speaking of sound:

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And Now a Few Words From Invisible Mikey

LB’s good bud and one of our favorite bloggers (InvisibleMikey) has a spot-on recommendation for our TV viewing:

Sidse Babett Knudsen on BORGEN (No, that isn’t an adjective related to STAR TREK. Sheesh!)

UNconventional – by Invisible Mikey

Ah, politics.  The fakeness, lies and weasel-words.  The facade of assumed importance.  The grand parade of lifeless commodities.  During the weeks the political conventions are broadcast I feel as if quality TV, normally one of my maintenance drugs, is only available from secret labs run by chemistry students.

Just in case you also want to avoid the convention broadcasts, here’s a hidey-hole I discovered.  There’s an award-winning series from Danish TV about a female Prime Minister and politicians who have to choose between family life and serving a nation.  It’s called Borgen, and it’s one of the best political drama series ever made.  Superbly written and performed, it’s a less preachy, more plot-heavy, European version of The West Wing. read article

Peggy Bechko on Selling Out

Well, she doesn’t really call it that ‘cuz she’s a classy lady. Whereas we…hey, you know. Here, from Peggy’s blog, are her thoughts on writing to sell:

Should Writers Write For the Market? – by Peggy Bechko

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Job Opportunity of the Day

Found on Twitter, so you know it’s for reals:

This has nothing to do with the tweet below, but, hey, it’s a pic from Seattle, which means a thing or 2 to LB so we thought we’d give him a thrill

Who’s ready to make $100k as an EP? Contact @TV_Agent_Beth or myself ASAP. (Don’t email if you have NO #TVnews experience). Mahalo.

We’d check this out but we have no #TVnews experience other than having our mug shot shown locally back when we…oh, erm, nevermind. Nobody really cares about that, right? read article

Love & Money Dept – TV Writing Deals for 11/4/12

“Writing for money is a totally unfulfilling waste of time. Writing for love, though, can often end up making you a ton of money.” (Anon.)
  • Leslie Levings, creator of The Beastlies monster figurines, reports that she’s signed on to develop her creations into an animation project for J.J. Abrams’ company BAD ROBOT. (Which we think is really cool because it proves you don’t even have to be a writer to create a TV series these days, and writing being as hard as it is, hey, this is really awesome!)
  • Jamie Paglia (EUREKA) is writing the pilot for an ABC drama called EVOLVE, based on the Toxic City trilogy by Tim Lebbon. (Which we think is doubly cool because not only has Jamie aced out the writer of the books, the title is totally different so that none of their readers will ever suspect something they love is about to be on the air. Oh, waitaminnint, that doesn’t sound quite right, does it?)
  • Lew Schneider (EVERYBODY LOVES RAYMOND) & Rick Marin are adapting Marin’s Kindle Single memoir, Keep Swinging, in a sitcom for ABC. (Which we think is triply cool because, hey, Kindle, self-published stuff, making good…something all of us dream of, right? Right?)
  • Jonathan Ames (BORED TO DEATH) is writing a BORED TO DEATH TV movie for HBO. (Which is quadrupaly cool because a) it was our favorite show all 3 years it was on the air b) we got the word personally from this dood named Ted Danson and we’re just all giddy cuz he even spoke to us. HBO’s official response to this, btw, is silence, but screw them. Ted’s the Man!)