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‘Super Sci-Fi Saturday Nights’

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by Doug Snauffer

There’s an abundance of science fiction and fantasy on TV these days, and you can find it just about anywhere. The Syfy Channel, for example, produces its own line of original series’ like Aftermath, Incorporated and Channel Zero. Of course, such programming is their stock-in-trade.

However, even the major broadcast networks are churning out their share of similar content, with such titles as ABC’s Agents of Shield, NBC’s Timeless, and Fox’s Gotham. The CW in particular has jumped on the comic book craze currently dominating big-screen box offices. They became home for the displaced Supergirl after she proved incompatible with CBS’ older-skewing demographic last season. At the CW she now keeps regular company with Blade, Arrow, and the Legends of Tomorrow. read article

Cartoon: “Lost in the Woods”

Grant Snider knows more about life than any Nobel Prize winner so far!

We’ve said it before and are happy to say it again: We at TVWriter™ love this guy’s work. Which is why we definitely believe we all should buy a beautiful and wise and wonderful poster of one of his cartoons for Christmas. You know, like the ones for sale HERE.

Larry Brody’s Poetry: ‘First Snow’

by Larry Brody

NOTE FROM LB: 

It snowed here last week and reminded me of as many different events and ideas and people as there were snowflakes on the ground. I used to love the snow. But last week I just looked at it and wondered, “What if we can’t get the car up the driveway and out to the street? What if we’re snowed in?” But we weren’t snowed in. As another poet once said about a whole ‘nuther subject, “’tis pity….”

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Standing in the doorway, I watch the snow fall, read article

TVWriter™ Don’t-Miss Posts of the Week – Dec. 12, 2016

In case you’ve missed what’s happening at TVWriter™, the most popular blog posts during the week ending yesterday were:

TIMELESS: Will it get stuck in the Time Tunnel? read article

Posts TVWriter™ Wishes We’d Published First

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This week’s collection of recent articles from other websites about TV, TV writing, TV biz, etc., etc. is as diverse as its disparate origins can make it.

As usual, the plan here is for you to click on the headlines over the excerpts below and visit the site to read the posts in full…and if anybody asks, tell ’em TVWriter™ sentcha, okay? read article