The Doctor Puppet Goes Up and Down

Uh-oh, we hate to say this, but the recent inundation of Doctor Puppet blog posts has had an effect on us that we don’t think the Puppet and his trusty pal Alisa intended. We’re starting to flood.

He’s so cute and happy, but…

“I had a splendid time at Dragon*Con just riding the elevators in the Marriot Marquis up and down. They were like glass rocket ships! VROOOM!!! ” (The Doctor Puppet)

What do you think, gang? Should we give this a rest for awhile? Or we could be a little pickier about which posts we pick up. But that would mean we’d have to think about what we were doing, and one of the plusses of working with The Doctor Puppet is that it’s been so darn easy so far. Decisions, decisions. Help us out? read article

munchman: New Screenwriting Software We Never Heard Of

Nice graphic, huh? Lends a certain credibility…

TVWriter™ got a press announcement the other day about a company named Mariner Software, which, it seems makes screenwriting software that neither we nor our friends have heard of. Now, admittedly, we have a pretty limited circle of friends (“Dammit, Jim, we’re writers not social butterflies!) so we’re putting out this call:

If anybody out there has experience with Mariner’s Personna, StoryMill, Mariner Write, and/or Paperless 2 software, for either mac or pc, give us a shout out, will you? And if you’d like to write a review, hey, that’s even cooler.

Yeah, we think it’s really freaky that this company is out and about and seems to be specializing in creative arts type software for, mostly, mac and we’ve never heard of it. So, please, somebody, enlighten us, okay? read article

“The Fien Print” on NBC’s GUYS WITH KIDS

Truth to tell, in principle I don’t mind the idea of a series about dads being dads. But as a dood whose reaction to the sound of any baby crying is total panic the idea of watching this fills my body with dread.

Take Me To The Pilots ’12: NBC’s ‘Guys with Kids’ by Daniel Fienberg

The Pitch: “You know how sometimes babies have fathers? That’s pretty CRAZY, right?” read article

See What Movies Have Been Saying About Television

…But be warned: It ain’t pretty.

25 movies that expose the ruthlessness of television – by Louisa Mellor

The Hunger Games, out now on DVD and Blu-ray, takes television’s thirst for human suffering to task, as do these 25 earlier films… read article

Further Proof of the Total Incompetence of The Folks at the CW

Bad ideas never die, they just get worse and worse:

The most recently failed version of Wonder Woman, soon to be replaced by the next most recently failed version which we’re confident is what they’re talking about just below

The CW lassos a new Wonder Woman origins series – by Meredith Woerner

You can’t kill Wonder Woman — she’ll only come back stronger. Not long after NBC officially pulled the plug on its own Wonder Woman show, The CW has decided that they would like a shot at the lady with the lasso of truth. read article