SWIMMING WITH SHARKS

by Larry Brody

Still the most insightful, most accurate, and just plain best film ever made about the showbiz I know, with Kevin Spacey doing Jay Bernstein better than even Jay could.

And now I find out it was a play? In London?

With Christian Slater, Matt Smith, Arthur Darvill, and Helen Baxendale? read article

Ooh, You Really Love Us

Everything’s fixed now, but TVWriter™ was offline for a few hours Friday night and Saturday morning because we “exceeded [our] allowed bandwidth.” This is the first time in 15 years that’s happened.

Thanks for responding so well to the re-design.

We love you too. read article

First Look at BULLET IN THE FACE

We Dare You to Turn Your Head Away from this Trailer


And that’s just a short sample of what happens when a network lets a strong, talented writer-producer do his thing.

BULLET IN THE FACE debuts August 16th & 17th at 10 pm Eastern/Pacific time with three back to back half-hour episodes on IFC.

Yes, this is an unabashed plug for BULLET IN THE FACE creator and TVWriter™ fave Alan Spencer, without whose classic comedy series SLEDGEHAMMER (our favorite MIKE HAMMER “homage”) all of Adult Swim wouldn’t exist. read article

TVWriter™ Post of the Week


As determined by, hmm, us.

Because we can.

(We had a whole “somebody has to be the gatekeeper” explanation/argument ready and then remembered that we’re all anti-gatekeeper, and anti-hypocrisy. So it would’ve been bullshit anyway.) read article

What’s the Story on MediaBistro.Com?

…Because they’ve got what looks like the world’s greatest writing/editing/producing and all-over media jobs listing service ever:

Curious…so curious…because we’re always, you know, trying to help.