(Some of) This Year’s Daytime Emmys Writing Awards

by TVWriter™ Press Service

(UPDATE: We should remove the “(Some of)” from the title of this post because Sunday, the rest of the Daytime Emmys were given out, including the one for “Best Writing Team for a Drama Series.” Winning that one was the team for “The Young and the Restless,” on CBS.  TVWriter™ congratulates the team, although we wish the P.R. had included their names. The way this whole thing is run is, well, just plain wrong.)

Last Friday, the Daytime Emmy Creative Arts Awards were at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium. More award also were given out at the 46th Annual Daytime Emmys, and we’ll deal with those in another post. (Why are there different ceremonies? Well, it’s a long story, kids, and too complicated to go into here, so how about we just use this one word label: “Privilege.” Anyway, here are Friday’s Writing Awards:) read article

Audio Drama & William Gibson’s ‘Alien 3’

We here at TVWriter™ are major fans and, we hope, supporters of audio series, and so, it turns out, is some guy named William Givson. Who knew?

by Jo Light

Audible has…revealed that they are turning William Gibson‘s unproduced Alien 3 script into an original audio drama, which is exciting for Alien fans but also perhaps a signal that if you can’t get your narrative to the screen, maybe you can settle for audio drama first, and see where that takes you… read article

Larry Brody: Live! From Paradise! #44 – “Hazardous Material”

THE USUAL NOTE FROM LB: From the summer of 2002 to  the spring of 2010, Gwen the Beautiful and I were the proud and often exhausted owners of a beautiful Ozarks property we called Cloud Creek Ranch.

In many ways, the ranch was paradise. But it was a paradise with a price that started going up before we even knew it existed. Here’s another Monday musing about our adventure and the lessons we learned.

Oh, and if y’all detect any irony, please believe me when I say it comes straight from the universe and not your kindly Uncle Larry B. read article

Writers Guild – Talent Agents Troops Dig In

by Larry Brody

The latest developments in Hollywood’s latest War Between Those Who Should Be Brothers & Sisters:

Why Did Writers Have To Fire Their Agents, What Is WGA’s Endgame & Other Burning Questions Addressed By Guild Chief David Goodman read article

10 Most Viewed TVWriter™ Posts of the Week – May 06, 2019

Happy Monday 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: read article