Kevin Bacon’s Revolutionary New Gig

When is a TV or web series not a TV or web series?

When it’s an audio series. Erm, a podcast, um…how ’bout we just say when it’s something new, unique, and wonderful like the new fictional comedy series podcast I’m Gonna Be Kevin Bacon, in which some old actor name of Kevin Bacon plays – no, not Kevin Bacon but another old actor called “Randy Beslow,” an angry and embittered actor who lost the starring role in Footloose to Bacon and is riding the trail of revenge.

Or, as Kevin Bacon himself put it last week: read article

Required Reading for Everyone Starting Out in Showbiz

Here it is, the most open, honest, and absolutely essential article we’ve ever seen about how Hollywood show business really works. Brace yourselves, gang!

Bullshit Lies My Film Professor Taught Me About Hollywood
by Michael Tapia

I had a professor who worked on the show Prison Break and I went to visit him on the set one year. I was on the call sheet! Intern. First day of the shoot, my professor, the director of the episode that week, asked for me to get him a “coffee.”

All right. Coffee. Um…I don’t drink coffee. Nor did I at the time. My past experience with coffee was nil. Perhaps if I had thrown it down my gullet in high school, I could have elevated to a loftier university than Arizona State, but I digress. read article

What is a Spec Script? and How to Write One

Back to basics because if you don’t have the vocabulary of the Industry, how can you write for it?

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WGAW President David A. Goodman Talks

To be more specific, here he is talking to writer-producers Javier Grillo-Marxuach and Jose Molina about the Guild’s current contretemps over who’s the boss whom, writers or agents.

The good news according to Grillo-Marxuach and Molina is that the showbiz sky isn’t falling even though the agents keep insisting it is. The bad news according to Goodman, is that things aren’t sorting themselves as quickly as he believed they would. read article

Last Week in Cord Cutting

More cord cutting news for all you crazy, zany refugees from the tyranny of satellite and cable TV, from CordCuttersNews. The central issues this week include free cord cutting services, all the new shows coming to Apple TV Plus,” Hulu’s new 99 cent deal, & more.

Which brings up an interesting question: How many streaming sites are too many? As in, how many can we afford? Or, conversely, how many of the new sites will ever make a profit? read article