ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY NEWS AUDIO EDITION – 11/07/19

by Bob Tinsley

Why should you as a visitor to TVWriter™ be interested in making audio fiction? Why should you be interested in making podcasts? Discoverability, that’s why.

The meaning of the word podcast is evolving to include any episodic, audio-only production whether nonfiction or fiction. Agents and major studios have started trawling through podcasts and their creators for new content and talent.  read article

Netflix to launch first original scripted podcast

What took them so long?

by TVWriter™ News Service
Via podnews.net

Netflix has announced it’s to launch its first original scripted podcast, with Spotify. read article

Toys We Want -ASAP!!!

Current GOTTA-HAVES here at TVWriter™.

What? You thought we were all old and serious and such? Hell, even our Beloved Leader, Larry Brody, who’s older than, well, than all those hills people are always “as old as,” has shelled out for the following. Now if we can only get him to put them on the shelf in our cube.)

Avengers: Endgame MMS558 Hulk 1/6th Scale Collectible Figure
BY HOT TOYS – BRAND MARVEL

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LB: Latest Apple TV+ News

by Larry Brody

I got an early birthday – or maybe it was Christmas – present this year from Apple. A free one-year subscription to the Apple TV+ streaming site.

This means I get to watch Apple’s ultra-expensively produced TV shows that probably shouldn’t be called TV shows because they’re made for interweb streaming. read article

Cartoon: ‘The Haunted House’

We meant to publish this insightful (and sweet) look at Halloween by Grant Snider, philosopher-cartoonist extraordinaire, last week, on, you know, Halloween. But then we started bobbing for apples and carving pumpkins and swapping costumes and one thing led to another and…well, we forgot is what we did.

Enjoy Grant Snider doing what he does best – feeling and even more importantly expressing his feelings – now:

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