Well, actually these tales have indeed been told, but only in-house at Marvel Studios and the now defunct FoxKids Network because the scripts all were written early in 1999, during and shortly after the first season of The Silver Surfer Saturday morning cartoon series and intended to be produced and aired during Season Two.
Except that Season Two never happened. The show was canceled for reasons that remain unclear to me even to this day.
Good morning!
Time for TVWriter™’s Monday look at our most popular blog posts of the week ending yesterday. They are, in order:
Not bad, huh? Cute trailer, yeah? Makes the search for a missing college mascot look fun, right?
This episode is pretty fun too:
We at TVWriter™ admit it – we’re suckers for Brit accents. (munchman even more than the rest of us, which is why he goes around using several different varieties whenever he can…usually in moments of stress. )
Arika Okrent, the world’s pithiest grammarian, is back with the answer to a question that’s on the mind of every writer, new, old, and in-between. Or maybe almost every one of them anyway especially if they watch all the versions of the lives of Queens Elizabeth I and II and Victoria now available just about everyplace that streams.
This one’s a little longer than most of Akira’s posts, with a playing time of almost 4 minutes. But it’s a fascinating 4 minutes. For reals.
I’ve been getting emails asking what I’m binge-watching on TV these days.
Interestingly, no one’s asking for recommendations as such, as in “I’ve got some time on my hands. What should I be binging on my big screen, iPad, Galaxy S8, et al.?”
Which is just as well because I feel awkward recommending any series to anyone these days, especially since the most recent PEOPLE’S PILOT, during the judging of which I learned that no matter how intelligent, talented, and perceptive any two people (or in the case of the judges, any 10 people) are, you can never be sure any of them will agree on what the simple phrase “good TV show” means.