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Things I Learned From One Season Writing on a Show
It takes talent, chutzpah, and more networking than just about any writer in the universe is comfortable with to get started as a TV writer. No one owes you a gig no matter how talented you may be.
In spite of the difficulty – well, probably because of it – few new TV writing pros do all that much to help other noobs into the game. (Gotta watch out for “rivals,” don’tcha know?) Which is why our TVWriter™ hats are off to the “Watching Cartoons in Your Underwear” tumblr blog and its proprietress Gina for posts like this:
NBC’s Conjoined Triplets of Comedy
by Quetzelcoatl
Thought about Atlantis lately? I hadn’t until Thursday night, February 16th. NBC was airing an episode of “SUPERSTORE,” followed by “POWERLESS.” For an island that sunk out of sight, Atlantis popped up like an atoll when the subject was raised in both sitcoms, broadcast back to back.
Starting at 8 pm, the crew and customers at “SUPERSTORE” felt a heatwave when the temperature control system broke. Glenn, the oft befuddled manager, tried calling corporate to fix it but was brushed off in a perky, yet authoritative voice.
Larry Brody’s Poetry: ‘Lunching With The Dragon’
by Larry Brody
NOTE FROM LB:
Meetings are the not only of writers but of everyone in showbiz who actually wants to get something accomplished…which means anyone but executives because whenever they do what it is they do they’re taking the risk of having the result backfire and kicking them out of a job. The following poem, however, is about a meeting I had where I truly learned something from a great man. Ah, those were the days!
Lunching With The Dragon
“This isn’t real, you know.” We sit in a Japanese
TVWriter™ Don’t-Miss Posts of the Week – February 27, 2017
The BIG NEWS OF THE WEEK at TVWriter™ is that LB has completed and sent out all the Feedback on entries in the 2016 PEOPLE’S PILOT.
If you entered the contest and haven’t received your Feedback, please check your spam folder. If email with the heading “Feedback on your 2016 People’s Pilot Entry” isn’t there, email us so we can have another go at getting it to you ASAP.