Latest News About Writers Who Are Doing Better Than We Are=&0=& (LAYER CAKE ?WTF?) is adapting Wilbur Smith’s novel Birds of Prey into a series scheduled for the UK. (So we know it has to be good. After all…it’s going to be British. Woo hoo!)
David Benioff & Dan Weiss (GAME OF THRONES) have signed on for two more seasons on the show. (Which is great news cuz munch me would much rather hang with those guys than with THRONES creator George R.R. Martin. Can you imagine GRRM as your wingman? Didn’t think so.)
Carol Leifer (SEINFELD) has a memoir – Lessons from a Life in Comedy – coming out April 8th. (The way we hear it, said tome is loaded with life and showbiz lessons. Which should be interesting since the two have absolutely nothing to do with one another. Wait, was that mean? As mean as what I said about His Wonderfulness, George Martin? Cool! Thanks!)
Tag: Bigtime TV writers and their latest bigtime deals
Love & Money Dept – TV Writing Deals for 4/1/14
Latest News About Writers Who Are Doing Better Than We Are=&0=& (upcoming FRIENDS WITH BETTER LIVES) has a new overall deal with ABC Studios. (Cuz his previous shows, DON’T TRUST THE B— IN APARTMENT 23 and TRAFFIC LIGHT (?!) were such big hits, your little muncher supposes.)
Julie Plec (THE VAMPIRE DIARIES) has a new overall deal with Warner Bros. TV. (Cuz she’s got a bunch of shows on the air, don’tcha know? And that, justifiably, makes Julie hot, hot, hot!)
Jennie Snyder Urman (EMILY OWENS, MD) has extended her deal at CBS TV Studios. (Woo! Talk about big hits. EMILY OWNS is right up there with – wait, don’t tell me – DON’T TRUST THE BITCH. How can you not love a business that rewards failure as well as TV does?)
Love & Money Dept – TV Writing Deals for 3/28/14
Latest News About Writers Who Are Doing Better Than We Are=&0=& is adapting Full Circle, the book she and Gloria Killian co-write about Gloria’s struggle to get through law school while serving time for a wrongful murder conviction into a series pilot for Entertainment One. (Except that the series will be called INSIDE OUT and there’s no network deal yet so this announcement isn’t much different than you or I saying, “Hey, I’m writing a pilot!” Definitely a lesson to be learned here.)
Erik Sommers (HAPPY ENDINGS) is an overall deal with Sony TV. (Cuz CBS is high on his pilot, CUZ-BROS…for reasons that the titles sure as #@$! doesn’t make clear.)
Hilary Winston (BAD TEACHER) also has a new deal with Sony and is officially hot, hot, hot. (Just ask her agents at UTA. In fact, Hilary is so hot that she’s also a contributing editor to “Playboy Magazine.” I know, I know, “Playboy” is so cold and outdated that only a few of you will have any inkling why I’ve even mentioned it. To you others I say, think interweb porn only…really, really boring.)
Love & Money Dept – TV Writing Deals for 3/26/14
Latest News About Writers Who Are Doing Better Than We Are
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- Anna Fricke (BEING HUMAN) has a new overall deal with 20th Century Fox Television and will serve as showrunner of HIEROGLYPH, for which she wrote a pilot so hot that they aren’t even wasting time shooting a pilot. It’s just go, go, go on the series itself. (Hey, Anna, you don’t know the munchman but I’m flat out calling it – munchie adores your work. Good luck on this one!)
- Matt Miller, Caitlin Barlow, Katy Colloton, Cate Freedman, Kate Lambert, Katie O’Brien and Katie Thomas have a deal with TV Land to bring their web series, TEACHERS, to the Big Time Small Screen. (And if this doesn’t get all you TVWriter™ers working on your peer production you deserve what you get…or, in that case, don’t get. CREATE YOUR OWN WEB SERIES, DAMMIT. AL OF YOU!)
- Seth Fisher & Danny MacKey (newbs!) are developing JACKASS OF ALL TRADES, a comedy about a guy trying to make his living via odd jobs on Craigslist, for TBS. (Oh frabjous day! All our announcements are belong to really cool people finally getting the kinds of chances they deserve! Halloo, hallay!)
Love & Money Dept – TV Writing Deals for 3/24/14
Latest News About Writers Who Are Doing Better Than We Are
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- Walon Green (LAW & ORDER) has gotten the word to expand his National Geographic KILLING JESUS project into a 4-hour mini-series. (Your munchman is calling this show fictional cuz it’s based on a book by Bill O’Reilly and, you know. I’d never insinuate that Jesus his godly self wasn’t real. Oh no, not moi….)
- Chris Colfer (one of the glamorous and cool stars of the equally glamorous and cool series GLEE) is writing an episode of that very show. (Cuz he’s a pushy little fuck, methinks. At least he was when we took an acting class together. Hi, Chris! Love you, kiddo! Rilly!)
- Marta Kauffman (FRIENDS) & Howard J. Morris (HOME IMPROVEMENT) are developing GRACE AND FRANKIE, about two women who bond cuz their husbands have left both of them for each other for Netflix. (Oh, and the stars are already set: Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin. Could be a lotta fun watching the worlds of those two Big Names collide!)
- Ryan Murphy (AMERICAN HORROR STORY) has optioned the book, Empty Mansions: They Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune by Bill Dedman & Paul Clark Newell Jr. but nobody’s saying if he plans to make it into a film or a TV series. (And here at TVWriter™ I munchman am of course hanging on every clue cuz everybody knows yours truly has absolutely no life at all.)