Tag: Larry Brody

Why CBS Will Never Cancel Stephen King’s UNDER THE DOME

Um, 200 international licensing agreements for the series, that’s why. Even if the series, which is produced by Amblin Television (AKA Steven Spielberg) tanks – and we aren’t saying we think it will cuz it is produced by Amblin and Stevie, after all – all that overseas revenue is way too much to throw away.

Here are the specifics, brought to you in that wonderful, old-fashioned Hollywood way: Via a Press release from CBS. Thank you for sending this out and making our writing lives so much easier than usual, doods. We owe ya one. Anyway:

Under-The-Domeby Team TVWriter™ Press Service

CBS Studios International announced today agreements for the broadcast rights of “Under the Dome” with prominent broadcasters from around the world. The U.S. drama, which is produced by CBS Television Studios in association with Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Television and is based on Stephen King’s bestselling novel of the same name, will be licensed in 200 international markets, with some starting to run the series this summer. read article

BBC, Jim Henson Co. Bringing Puppets To UK Primetime With ‘Muppet’-Style Show

We miss the muppets. We mean the real muppets, with their adult humor and social commentary. The way Jim Henson used to do them, way back when. And now, after lo these many years, maybe – just maybe – we’ll get to see them again. Leave it to the BBC to be the ones to give us the shot:

by Nancy Tartaglione

BBC One has joined with The Jim Henson Company for That Puppet Game Show, a new comedy game series that has a few things in common with Henson’s original Muppet Show. The series is currently shooting and will occupy a primetime slot on Saturday nights beginning later this year. Each week, two celebrity guests – the only humans on the program – will compete head-to-head in a group of “madcap” games as they vie to win £10,000 for charity. Like The Muppet Show, which incorporated behind-the-scenes shenanigans along with the actual onstage goings-on, That Puppet Game Showwill also feature a backstage sitcom.

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LB: Looks Like It’s Time to Give Up on a FIREFLY Return

josswhedonbatmanJust found this quote, more or less buried in reportage last week about “An Evening with Joss Whedon” that was hosted by the Film Society of Lincoln Center. Seems there was a question-and-answer session that included this response to a question about our favorite deceased science fiction series:

“Right now I’m happy to say everybody is working doing good jobs. There’s a real fear of ‘The Monkey’s Paw,’ you know? You bring it back to life and it isn’t the same. Even if it’s GREAT and it isn’t the same. I’m dying to get on a ship with those guys again, but I’m also doing yet another goddamn huge ensemble movie [‘The Avengers 2’]. Why can’t I do a movie about just one guy? So right now I can’t even access that part of my brain. If all the planets align that would be great, but I’m not going to do what I did the first time and move heaven and earth to make it happen.”

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Top TVWriter™ Posts for the Week Ending 6/7/13

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 Here they are, the most viewed TVWriter™ posts for the past week:

The 2013 People’s Pilot and Spec Scriptacular Contests are Now Closed read article

Amazon Storyteller will Storyboard Your Script – for Free

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Amazon.Com has a very cool toy for all us writerly, film-makerly girls and boys. It’s called Amazon Storyteller and it’s a free online tool that turns scripts into storyboards. Oh, and it really seems to work. We aren’t ultra sure of this because of: read article