Easy for them to say. In fact, considering the circumstances – these folks being Emmy writing nominees and all (and as of Sunday night a few also are winners) – they’d better tell us how great TV is.
Even if, all things considered, the product should – let’s face it – be speaking for itself.
by Ross A. Lincoln
“If there had been a Rotten Tomatoes in 1601, he would have gotten a 73.” So WGAW Vice President Howard A. Rodman compared Shakespeare to television. What he meant is that the Bard in his day was, like television until rather recently, seriously underrated and disrespected. Things change, however, and now, so Rodman asserts, whatever genre you pick out of a hat, the best work is happening on TV. That’s a good a scene-setting as one could hope for tonight’s panel discussion held at the Writers Guild Theater featuring this year’s Emmy writing nominees.