The biggest problem most editors, publishers, agents, producers, and even – OMG! – readers have with writers is…
Wait for it…
Commas!
The Only TV Show That Gets Life Under Trump
NOTE FROM LB: This is the review that I should have written about The Good Fight. But Michelle Goldberg has done it much better, so:
by Michelle Goldberg
In the second season of the serial drama “The Good Fight,” Diane Lockhart, an attorney played by the regal 67-year-old actress Christine Baranski, makes a heated speech at a meeting about a legal strategy for impeaching Donald Trump. “I have spent the last few months feeling deranged,” she shouts, though she uses an expletive before “deranged.” “Going numb! All Trump, all the time. What’s real, what’s fake? Well, you know what? I just woke up.”
Where Will ‘The Orville’ Go Next?
Speaking of the Writer-Agent War, did you know that David A. Goodman, President of the Writers Guild of America West is also David A. Goodman Executive Producer of The Orville? And that’s a subject on which he also has a lot to say?
by Anthony Pascale
The second season of The Orville concluded last week with the time-bending episode “The Road Not Taken.” TrekMovie had a chance to talk to executive producer David A. Goodman who wrote the episode and we walked about the finale, the second season in general, and what’s next for the show. We also talked a bit about Star Trek as Goodman is a former writer/producer on Star Trek: Enterprise and he has also written a number of Star Trek books.
What goals did you have going into the season that you feel the second season of The Orvilleachieved?
Remember When Sid & Marty Krofft Were The Bosses of Bosses in Kids TV?
An interview with a couple of great guys who helped create pop culture (back when it was really, really, really popular too):
Episodic Quotes: A Guide for Writer-Producer Fees
The WGA is doing everything it can think of to help currently agentless writers (just about all of us, for obvious reasons) during this staffing season.
To that end, the Writers Guild of America West has released a schedule of writer-producer fees showing the median and maximum amounts your peer writer-producers currently are bringing in, so, you know, we can ask for it too.