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FINAL CALL FOR ENTRIES for the 42nd Annual HUMANITAS Prize

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It’s down to the wire time, but if you’re a pro writer with a recently produced TV or film script, you absolutely must enter this contest! Now!

SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO OCTOBER 12, 2016


For over four decades, the HUMANITAS Prize has empowered writers with financial support and recognition to tell stories which are both entertaining and uplifting. HUMANITAS encourages writers who create contemporary media to use their immense power to: read article

Peggy Bechko’s World: Time to Broaden Your Horizons!

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Now this is a broad horizon!

by Peggy Bechko

Okay folks this is broaden your horizons day.

Most of you reading this are writers and most of you are TV or movie script writers.

So, how many scripts do you have on your hard drive or floating in the cloud? And who’s read them besides you? Anybody giving you feedback or just reading them because they enjoy reading them? Scripts? read article

‘Timeless’ Shoulda Been Better

Time Travelers Abigail Spencer, Matt Lanter, and Malcolm Barrett of NBC's Timeless.
Time-travelers Malcolm Barrett, Abigail Spencer, and Matt Lanter of NBC’s Timeless.

by Doug Snauffer

I really expected more from NBC’s Timeless.  I’ve always been a big fan of time-travel stories, and so apparently is Timeless co-creator Eric Kripke (Supernatural, Revolution).  He revealed in a recent interview that inspiration for his latest creation can be traced back to such programs as Voyagers! (NBC, 1982-83) and Quantum Leap (NBC, 1989-93).  That was enough to sell me.

Until, that is, I viewed the pilot for Timeless (NBC, Mondays, 10 pm).  

The first episode played like a two-hour movie that had been hastily edited in half.  Just seven minutes into the premiere episode, three strangers had already been assembled, introduced to a secret time-travel project, given the run-down on their first assignment, attired in appropriate 1930s apparel, and strapped into the giant eyeball-shaped contraption that would carry them back to 1937 to the sight of the Hindenburg disaster. read article

TVWriter™ Don’t-Miss Posts of the Week – Oct. 10, 2016

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

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munchman’s Take on the Fall 2016 Season so Far

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What we do for luv – and money!

by munchman

More thoughts, munchites, from a guy acknowledged the world over (or at least within the room in which this is being typed) as a truly penetrating and trenchant observer:

  1. Okay, yer munchy one made absolutely my best effort to binge his way through Woody Allen’s Crisis In Six Scenes. Thanks to the magic of fast-forwarding, I made it through the first ep (well, more or less), but after that – whoa? Skinny, boring, old neurotic dude’s ready to trade in Elaine May for Miley Cyrus? This show is Allen’s biggest piece of crap since his last big piece of crap, and believe me, that was a tough act to follow.
  2. Anybody out there watching Amazon’s I Love Dick? No? I knew TVWriter™ attracted a smart crowd. Yer Friendly Neighborhood munchman’s advice: Keep away. Keep far, far away. I mean, how many shows about neurotic, self-obsessed, unhappily married and all-around unfulfilled 40-something housewives does any world need? And even if there was room for one more, I Love Dick wouldn’t be the one. (Lurve the title though. It never fails to bring a nice, sneery, smirk to me face.)
  3. Amazon’s also ready to assault us with a new version of The Tick. The first live TV version was heavenly satire. This one actually seems to be taking itself seriously. Sorry, Amazon, you won’t be kicking Netflix’s ass with this kind of crud. (Do you know what “crud” really means? Trust me – it’s definitely a word worth looking up. Oh, wait, they’ve fucking changed it. Now it means “an incrustation of filth or refuse.” Back when I was in 6th grade it was a guaranteed giggler because Webster’s said it was “a crude synonym for smegma.” And smegma is what The Tick is, through and through.)
  4. Ooh, at last, a half hour – more or less – of pleasure. Just watched the season opener of Blunt Talk, which is Woody Allened (you know, created and run by) Jonathan Ames, a skinny, neurotic, not old or boring neurotic dude who also created, produced, wrote, etc. the late lamented Bored to Death. For my moolah, such as it is, Blunt Talk is currently one of TV’s least-watched but most brilliant comedies. Orgasmically blissful (take it from somebody who, well, knows.)

Ah, nuthin’ like spreadin’ the joy. Seeya next week with more TV joy!

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