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Love & Money Dept – TV Writing Deals for 7/11/13

Latest News About Writers Who Are Doing Better Than We Are

  • Graydon Sheppard & Kyle Humphrey (NEWBS) have made a deal with Style Media to develop their Twitter/Web series, SH*T GIRLS SAY, for Style Network, an NBCUniversal production company. (To which we can only add, “See, you lazy motherfuckers? Your insane interweb ideas can get you the love and money you want, you just have to, you know, write the damn things!” Yep, that’s what we say.)
  • John McLaughlin (THE BLACK SWAN) has written the pilot for a drama series to be based on James Patterson‘s book series, PRIVATE, and some actor name of Robert De Niro is pitching it all over town. (Well, actually, Bobby isn’t the one who does the pitches. His genius – we mean it – production partner, Jane Rosenthal, handles that end of things, which means you can bank on getting to see the series on the air somewhere important soon.)
  • Nigel Trantor’s historical novels about Scottish heroes William Wallace and Robert the Bruce are being adapted into a miniseries for Discovery Channel. No word on the writer, so have your people talk to Discovery’s people ASAP. (And if you know Ridley Scott and/or David W. Zucker, who are executive producers of the project, well, that can’t hurt, can it?)
  • Michael Green (HEROES) is adapting Alan Moore‘s LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN series of graphic novels into a series for Fox Network. (The good news: It’s bound to be better than the feature film version. The bad news: Nobody’s telling us how Alan Moore feels about this project.)

Herbie J Pilato: THE LONE RANGER: It Didn’t Have To End This Way

by Herbie J Pilato

moreloneFor some reason, feature film remakes of classic television shows are produced as a joke; as if the original core material of these productions were unworthy from the get-go. But if that was true why would there be any attempt at all of a big-screen redo of a small-screen hit show?

Submitted for everyone’s disapproval at the box-office: the new and present danger of The Lone Ranger, and before that, 2011’s Dark Shadows; both of which just so happen to feature Johnny Depp in a lead role, and covered with overtly-white make-up, nonetheless.

Whether or not Depp was somehow attempting to re-hash his very successful look from his crazy-successful Pirates of the Caribbean films, or whether or not he was somehow attempting to just hide the fact that he was really in the Lone and Shadows films in the first place, let’s hope he’s now moved-on forever from the powdered-white-face look. Let’s hope, too, that the wretched ticket sales that accompanied the Dark and Ranger releases will not sink any future attempts to remake classic television programs for the big screen. read article

Writing good dialogue

Ken Levine, that wonderful blogger we don’t know (and who doesn’t know us), but whom we read whenever we can, is back with more worthwhileness. (Yeah, we know that isn’t a word. But it should be. Live with it.)

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Here’s one of those Friday Questions that is worth an entire post.

It’s from Kevin Rubio: read article

Robert Picardo joins Inspector Spacetime!

BERNARD_Picardoby Team TVWriter™ Press Service

Greetings, Inspectators!

Just in time for the launch of the Season 2 Kickstarter Campaign, the web series that’s been praised by MTV, Entertainment Weekly, Nerdist, the AV Club and the Huffington Post, as well as named “the best of TV on the web for 2012” by USA Today, is proud to announce its latest guest star!

Star Trek: Voyager and Stargate: Atlantis alum Robert Picardo will join Travis Richey (The Inspector), Carrie Keranen (Piper Tate) and Eric Loya (Boyish the Extraordinary), as well as previously announced guest star, Big Bang Theory’s Mayim Bialik (voice of the B.O.O.T.H.)! Picardo will play the part of Bernard, a mysterious character who will factor heavily into the second season. read article

Peer Production: Our Favorite Superman Film Is…

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This one from 5second Films: