Joss Whedon Co-Writing, Directing S.H.I.E.L.D. Pilot at ABC

‘Cuz ABC is part of the Disney/Marvel/ABC Family, capish? Think for one minute any Marvel pilots are going to be developed at CBS?

ABC Orders Marvel’s ‘S.H.I.E.L.D.’ to Pilot From Joss Whedon – by Lesley Goldberg read article

Hey You Lady Writers!

From the makers of BIC, those non-sexist genius pen pushers who must have spent at least a day coming up with this product:

BIC Cristal…For Her read article

HOW TO ROCK Showrunner Tells All About Its Cancellation

This is the reason God invented blogs (for all you future showrunners out there):

On The Emmus: How To Rock The Future – by David Israel

Hey, HTR Fans. read article

munchman: Josh Berman Looks Way Too Young to be So Important

Really. Look at this:

Bugs the heck out of me. He looks like the kid I’d hire to mow my lawn. If I had a lawn. And if he didn’t seem so damn confident. I’m not all that into other people being confident around me, you know?

But the youthful Mr. Berman doesn’t need to mow lawns because what he does for a living is create and run shows like DROP DEAD DIVA and the upcoming THE MOB DOCTOR. And to make me hate him even more he has another new project at CBS, based on – yeah, this is upsetting – an article in a snobby-assed East Coast magazine! (Atlantic Monthly) read article

Web Power Grows, Soon It Will Eat TV

Or maybe television’s already done for. Yesterday, for example, Fox premiered two new TV series on the web, although they won’t appear on, you know, Fox TV, till tonight.

THE MINDY PROJECT

Oh, and these weren’t just any web premieres. These were on f-ing Facebook. Well, kinda makes sense. Zuckermantown is as close to the closed up pablum as the web gets these days. So close that we often find ourselves thinking of it as AOL Revisited.

BEN & KATE

The times they are a’changin’. And just between us, we here at TVWriter™ are mightily well-disposed toward change. read article