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Kelly Jo Brick: Highlights from the Los Angeles BinderCon

EDITOR’S NOTE: Big thanks to Kelly Jo for filling us in on something so much more important than its name makes it sound!

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by Kelly Jo Brick

IMG_1802-280x300Professional authors, screenwriters, journalists, poets, playwrights and TV writers gathered at UCLA for BinderCon, a conference developed to bring together and help advance women and gender non-conforming writers.

According to Co-Founder Leigh Stein, “We’re a community. We’re here to give you the tools, the strategies and the connections you need to advance your career. We specifically ask all our panel and workshop moderators to really focus on what do you want people to walk away with. What can they do on Monday, so it’s not just, be inspired all weekend, but it’s really about what you can do next. What’s the next step.” read article

Hulu and Viacom are Staying in Bed Together

…And the sex relationship  is even better than ever!

Viacom is extending the deal that puts so much of its cable “product” on Hulu and, in fact, adding several new choices for Hulu visitors/viewers to, erm, choose.

Well, not exactly new. We’re talking mostly about shows like iCARLY, VICTORIOUS, and HOW TO ROCK, which are either formerly hot and watched on TV by only a ghost of their old audience, or just plain deceased although SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS and the upcoming reboot of TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES will be available on Hulu Plus. read article

Did You Know That POWER RANGERS Is Still Up And Running?

Oh God, we loved this series back in the mid ’90s. You couldn’t get me out of my White Ranger pajamas for nuthin’, man. And now, to find out it still lives? Happy, happy, joy, joy – oh, wait, wrong ’90s series. Sorry.

Twentieth anniversary Power Rangers series revealed: Power Rangers Megaforce – by Vinnie Bartilucci

The folks at JEFusion.com shared footage from this year’s Power Morphicon of Saban Entertainment’s promo reel for next year’s Power Rangers series. Their seventeenth series, Power Rangers Megaforce, will be based on the thirty-fourth of Toei Company’s Super Sentai series, Tensou Sentai Goseiger. read article

Nickelodeon is Actually Hiring Pros to Develop Shows

We mean genuine big-timers who’ve worked on series like FRASIER, REBA, SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS, iCARLY, etc. What is this strange feeling in our chests? Oh, right…hope!

Yes, this is Noah Munck. No, we have absolutely no idea who Noah Munck is. But we want his hair.

Two Spinoffs, Animated Pilot From ‘SpongeBob’ Scribe Part of Ambitious Nickelodeon Slate – by Lesley Goldberg

As the children’s-themed network prepares to launch live-action comedy See Dad Run with Scott Baioand the animated Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in the fall, it handed out orders to four live-action series and five pilots. In addition, Nick on Friday picked up three animated series and two animated pilots…

The ambitious push comes as Nickelodeon attempts to remain competitive in an increasingly crowded landscape where outlets including Netflix and the Internet are among the rivals. For the first time in 16 years, Nick’s top competitor, Disney Channel, ended 2011 as the No. 1 kids network. read article