Tag: Larry Brody

Hey, Millennials, Welcome Your New Cable Network!

Um, too bad millenials don’t watch TV. When is some genius going to give us what we’ll really use – an online network of original material that we can watch on our phones or, when our parents are out, connect to their big-honking-assed TVs?

But for now:

pivot_pmby Team TVWriter™ Press Service
(yeppers, it’s a press release)

Pivot, Participant Media’s new cable network targeting millennials, The New Greatest Generation, will launch August 1, 2013. read article

Angelo J. Bell: The Countdown Has Begun

EDITOR’S NOTE: We love Angelo Bell not only for his talent but for his intensity. These powerful feelings are what the biz should always be about:

by Angelo J. Bell

The Countdown has begun.

I’m putting the finishing touches on my “Massively Big Project,” you know, the project I’ve been secretly working on in-between pitching TV series and MOW’s to NBCUniversal.  It’s do-or-die time; the moment when you realize you can tweak from now until doomsday but nothing is guaranteed, so you might as well go for broke now. read article

How to Manage Negativity and Use It to Your Advantage

Hard to believe as it may be, showbiz is filled with negative. It’s an integral part of what is without question the most competitive environment in, oh, let’s say the whole world – cuz we’re here plunk in the middle of it and it sure as Christ feels like that to us.

Which means that anything any showbiz newb can learn about how to handle all those bad vibes is important. Making this very important indeed:

negativityshowersby Adam Dachis

We live in a world of ups and downs, but handling the positive aspects tends to come a bit easier than the negative. With the right skill set, however, you can manage negativity when it comes your way. read article

Ken Levine Gives Us a Comedy Tip

Ken Levine, of M*A*S*H and CHEERS fame (among other great shows) knows just about everything there is to know about writing comedy. And if he doesn’t know it he can make it up…and be funny about that too. He’s giving a seminar called the SITCOM ROOM in L.A. the weekend of October 26-27. Here’s the kind of thing you’ll learn:

the-rule-of-threeThe Comedy Rule-of-Threes
by Ken Levine

This has been one of the staple of comedy for years. (It’s also been called the Comic Triple, which is different from when Prince Fielder gets a three-base-hit, like he miraculously did in the All-Star Game).

But how does it work? read article

GAME OF THRONES’ George R.R. Martin Feels the Writer’s Pain

Other sources have carried all or parts of this interview with George R.R. Martin, AKA the FKB AKA the Fantasy Kingdom Butcher, but this article from The Mary Sue gets to the writing heart of things:

TV-Game of Thrones

GAME OF THRONES AUTHOR GEORGE R.R. MARTIN EXPERIENCES THE PAINS OF WRITING, JUST LIKE ALL OF US
by Jill Pantozzi

As a writer, I think I can safely say a lot of us put our favorite authors on a pedestal. We somehow manage to convince ourselves that just because they’re successful and prolific means they never suffer with self-doubt or writer’s block. That’s usually not the case. And now we know A Song of Ice and Fire writer George R.R. Martin is not except from the usual trials and tribulations. read article