And The Most Profitable 1/2-Hour TV Show in History is…

Yep, it’s SEINFELD!

Jerry & the real George AKA Larry David

According to the New York Post, SEINFELD has earned more money since it went off the air than the gross national product of most countries – $2.7 billion.

This particular info, usually top secret, was revealed at an investors’ conference last month, when Time Warner bragged to potential investors that reruns of the series on broadcast TV have grossed $2.3 billion since 1998, with another $380 mil coming in from cable reruns. SEINFELD consists of 180 episodes, so you can figure that each half-hour of the series has made more than $14,000,000 so far. read article

Without FUTURAMA There’d Be No WRECK-IT RALPH

The good folks at io9 bring us some words from former FUTURAMA and THE SIMPSONS director Rich Moore, whose vision backstops WRECK-IT RALPH.

How Working on Futurama Prepares You to Make One of the Year’s Best Animated Movies read article

Top TVWriter™ Posts for the Week Ending 11/2

Here they are, the most viewed TVWriter™ posts for the week ending Friday, November 2nd

Joss Whedon, Mitt Romney, the Zombie Apocalypse…and Us read article

Stephen Merchant’s HBO Series is a Go

This just in from Hollywood Reporter.Com:

Stephen Merchant Pilot Gets Series Order at HBO – by Michael O’Connell

Stephen Merchant is stayin in business with HBO. read article

Love & Money Dept – TV Writing Deals for 11/3/12

“All’s fair in love and showbiz.” (Anon.)
  • Greg Malin (FRIENDS) is writing the pilot for the ABC sitcom TRIBES, adapted from the Israeli series, YOUR FAMILY OR MINE. (Proving that HOMELAND definitely has started an Israeli trend.)
  • Jordan Nardino (DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES) is writing the pilot for an untitled Fox comedy based on LifestyleLemonade.Com, a blog by Nikki Joel about her marriage to a WME agent who will go unnamed here because we like to pretend agents aren’t real/don’t actually exist. (Proving that even showbiz reality is a dreamworld.)
  • Nicholas Sparks (THE NOTEBOOK, DEAR JOHN) has TV deals for not one, not two, but three of his novels. Brandon Camp (LOVE HAPPENS) is adapting A BEND IN THE ROAD for TNT, John Norris (ONE TREE HILL) & Sparks are adapting THE FALLS for ABC Family, and Melissa Carter (JANE BY DESIGN)is writing DELIVERANCE CREEK for Lifetime. (Proving that if you have something that’s been done before, somewhere, TV will buy it…so get your Kindle books cracking!)
  • Michael Tolkin (DEEP IMPACT, THE PLAYER) is writing HOLLYWOOD & VINES, a series about a Hollywood family and its reaction to a star’s death, for ABC. (The fact that it was bought because “ABC is looking for its next REVENGE,” according to the H’wood Reporter proving again that, in TV, the concept that “If we can’t buy something that’s already succeeded we can at least copy it” still rules.)