Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Dirk Gently, and even Doctor Who) is one of our favorite writers around here at TVWriter™. Not just because of the brilliant wordsmithing but because of the thought, insight, and emotion behind it. We’re very glad we found this video interview and hope you will be too:
Uploaded to YouTube by Pete Machnik, whose big thinking channel is HERE
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Yeppers, kids, that’s right. We here at TVWriter™ still have a bug up our brainstems about audio drama. So hip, so trendy…and so cheap to produce so what’re you waiting for?
Big thanks to the obsessive Mr. Bob Tinsley for bringing the following article from the Fear Forever horror website to our attention so we can bring it to yours:
The popular radio dramas of days past have seen a resurgence in popularity in modern day podcast
form. One such podcast is the sci-fi horror-drama THE WHITE VAULT. FEAR FOREVER spoke with this eerie and unsettling show’s creator Kaitlin Statz prior to their live show in New York City on March 13th (you can find ticket info here!)
EDITOR’S NOTE: We all know how well comic book heroes, villains, and stories are doing on TV and in films these days – they own those media. However, many of us may not know what’s happening with the motherlode, comic books themselves. Gerry Conway’s here to tell us the ironic truth.
Is comic book publishing a doomed enterprise?
Since the days I first entered the business in the late 1960s, one of the perennial fears of creators and industry executives has been the imminent collapse of the retail comic book market.
Yesterday we wrote about the potential brouhaha, um, brewing between the Writers Guild of America West and the Association of Talent Agents. That report got us to thinking about all the other ways the WGAs, both West and East help and, for real, protect writers, even those who aren’t members.
Those thoughts have resulted in the following two links that LB and Team TVWriter™ think you should, as Stan Lee might say, “hie thyselves to pronto, pilgrim!”
Last week I posted the script for Season 2 Episode 1 of the now defunct FoxKids Network The Silver Surfer animated series for those who wondered what all of us involved in the show back in 1998 intended to come if we hadn’t been cancelled.
The response to the post – let’s face it, the response to the script, actually – was overwhelming, so here we go with Season 2 Episode 2, Soul Hunter: Part One, in which – well, the hell with a synopsis, this “revised” draft (as in it ain’t the first version but it never advanced to a place where it could be called “Final”) certainly speaks for itself: