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Fall TV Comedies To Avoid Like The Plague

Every once in awhile, HuffPo comes through. We’re really starting to love on the TV critic over there:

by Maureen Ryan

this-is-not-funnyThere are a lot of bad new comedies arriving this fall, and the thought of writing separate reviews for “Dads,” “We Are Men,” “Super Fun Night,” “Welcome to the Family,” “Sean Saves the World,” “The Millers” and “The Goldbergs” made me not want to get out of bed in the morning.

So I’m going to provide short and sweet reasons why you should avoid them. Standard caveat: Some of these shows could improve. It’s about as likely that a unicorn will fly out of NBC’s headquarters and sprinkle every TV viewer in America with joy-creating pixie dust … but you never know, I guess these things could happen. read article

Ken Levine on Elmore Leonard

Hey, we were wondering when somebody would tell us why this Leonard dude was such a Big Deal. And if Mr. Levine is mourning him, well…

Elmore-Leonard-jpgR.I.P. Elmore Leonard
by Ken Levine

Like all writers, I was greatly saddened to learn of Elmore Leonard’s passing yesterday. He was 87. Until a recent stroke, he was writing until the end. His fiction was always so vivid, his stories clever, and most of all his characters jumped off the page. When people ask me for examples of good dialogue I say pick up any Elmore Leonard book.

His work was also filled with humor. He was Quentin Tarantino long before Quentin Tarantino. He was Carl Hiaasen long before Carl Hiaasen. read article

LB: Buy This Book Or…Or…

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Nice Cover, Huh? The Poetry Ain’t Bad Either

…Or I’ll feel really, really bad.

And my wife, Gwen the Beautiful, will feel even worse.

Cuz she just published this Kindle edition of my book Kid Hollywood and the Navajo Dog as an anniversary gift to me. read article

Love & Money Dept – TV Writing Deals for 5/31/13

Latest News About Writers Who Are Doing Better Than We Are

  • Michael Konyves (THE LAST KNIGHT) is writing PUMP, a Showtime drama about happenings at a Venice Beach gym in the early 1970s. (Because Ahnuld wants to do it and his stories – God, he’s good in the room – will be the basis for the fiction. Anybody out there think this has even the remotest chance of not succeeding – big?)
  • Alec Sulkin & Wellesley Wild (TED) have made an overall deal with 20th Century Fox TV to develop, produce and all that good stuff. (Because they’re Seth MacFarlane’s right hand writers, and if you step back and look at the big picture that’s a damn good reason to be hot.)
  • Brian Gallivan (HAPPY ENDINGS) now has an overall deal with Sony TV. (Because his pilot THE McCARTHYS came thisclose to getting on CBS’s air for next season and Sony wants him to punch up the script and give it another go as well as develop other properties. Anybody out there think this has even the remotest chance of actually succeeding – big or otherwise? )
  • Vali Chandrasekaran (30 ROCK) has a new overall deal at ABC Studios. (Because he freaking deserves it and everyone over there knows it. End of discussion, dammit.)

Extra! CBS Corp In Talks To Take Full Control Of TVGuide.Com

tvguide_logoWha? There’s still a TVGUIDE? What does it do? Does anybody go there? Does anybody care?

Well, just in case you do give a crap, Deadline.Com has a story that will seal TVGuide.Com’s fate.cbs-logo By which we mean that if CBS does take over, there goes whatever credibility the TVG brand has had left.

CLICK HERE and read all about it.