Happy Monday morning everybody!
Hope you’ve had a great weekend. Time now for TVWriter™’s latest look at our most popular blog posts and resource pages during the week ending yesterday. They are, in order:
Stephanie Bourbon on How To Find A Literary Agent For Your Novel or Screenplay
Last week Stephanie Bourbon explained why agents so often reject new writers’ query letters. Today she’s giving important positive advice. Will doing what Stephanie says here mean you’ll have the loving, caring, super efficient supersalesperson of your dreams?
There’s only one answer, and we’re happy to give it. “Follow Stephanie’s advice and see!” (And then tell us all about it so we can help others as well.)
Amazon Wants You to Cord Cut
And we at TVWriter™ think that’s a pretty good idea. (Although this TVWriter™ minion’s a little concerned about the fact that she is and a major corporate profiteer are on the same side of his particular issue and…)
Ah well, nevermind. That’s a thought for another, more paranoid day.
The Latest Fashion in Hollywood Showrunning Deals
The times are a’changin’. In case you’ve been wondering what the currently agentless (because WGA-ATA conflagration!) super writer-producers are doing to keep themselves in the style to which we all wish we were accustomed, here ’tis!
Showrunners Testing Waters With Multiple TV Overall Deals
by Lesley Goldberg
How much work is too much for a top showrunner? In a Peak TV era overflowing with choice, content creators big and small are leveraging the demand for their services with deals for exclusivity on different platforms.
On Aug. 7, Jeff Davis (Criminal Minds) inked a “broadcast-only” overall deal with the newly independent Fox Entertainment. While the pact was designed to be beneficial to the network — which says it also could sell Davis’ fare to outside platforms — the showrunner is still free to sign another TV overall deal elsewhere. That practice, multiple sources tell The Hollywood Reporter, has been growing quietly for the past few years as new platforms have emerged.
LGBTQ Creators Sue YouTube for Discrimination
Is Google dancing the ole “Two Steps Forward, One Step Back” shuffle? As our Magic 8-Ball said just the other day, “Signs point to uh-oh.” (Yeah, ours is special.)
Here’s the situation.
