Tag: People’s Pilot Contest

Why aren’t streaming services bringing us more great black shows?

Reruns! Once upon a time they were the bane of TV viewers. Now, we spend vast numbers of online hours looking for the great TV shows of yore. Many times we find them…others, well, not so much:

by Alyssa Rosenberg

Living_single_dvd_coverWhen I graduated from college and got cable for the first time, I discovered the wonderful world of reruns. And so, long before binging TV shows became an actual sociological phenomenon, I regularly fell into happy fugue states with the “Law & Order” franchise, and with “Living Single,” Yvette Lee Bowser’s brilliant sitcom about a group of friends living in New York, starring Queen Latifah as magazine editor Khadijah James.

But when I got a “Living Single” craving last week, I discovered something frustrating: The series isn’t streaming anywhere, and only the first of the show’s five seasons is available on a DVD release. “Living Single” is every bit as sprawling and funny as “Friends” or “How I Met Your Mother,” and its female characters beat “Sex and the City” to the spiky, complicated punch by five years. But if you wanted to watch the whole thing, start to finish, and to watch it in order, you’d have to DVR the TV One reruns and assemble the episodes in order yourself. read article

Does Your Writing Suck?

You want to be a writer. More than that, you know you’re a writer – you just haven’t been discovered yet. But others don’t share that optimism…what do you do?

For starters, you read this:

Found at Dreamstime.Com
Found at Dreamstime.Com

by Joleene Moody

When I was in college, I wrote a farce for the stage. It was weak, at best, because I couldn’t come up with a decent ending. I don’t want to destroy my reputation here, but the first ending had an alien kidnapping the protagonist during Christmas Eve dinner. (Please don’t delete me from your network. I was only 21 and likely under the influence.) read article

Writing Gig Ops: Wanna be a paid film blogger?

writing op

No, sorry, not for us. TVWriter™ can’t afford that – yet. (Although if you want to work out a trade, the Deal Line is always open.)

The sharp operators looking for your help are at a site called whatculture.com, and as for the deal they’re offering…hey, check it out

CARGO 3120 Chapter Two

More in the continuing adventure of, well, of CARGO 3120, the web series that won’t die. If you missed it, Chapter One is HERE

Oh, and the background of this saga, both on the page and in real life, is HERE

by Aaron Walker Sr.

Once Marcus left the control booth, Daren proceeded to the tower to secure the last guard. Upon reaching the tower, he pulled up the facemask portion of his balaclava to cover his nose and mouth, and took the express lift to the top floor. The mask was made from a special fabric designed to filter potentially harmful substances lingering in the air. He thought it best not to take chances, lest he himself should wind up like the poor guy lying inside. read article

Native American TV Writers Lab Participants Announced

Native Film Lab Writers

This just in re a subject close to our TVWriter™ hearts, the LA Skins Fest, a Native American film festival, in partnership with Comcast/NBCUniversal, CBS Entertainment Diversity and HBO, last week announced the selection of seven participants for their first Native American TV Writers Lab., a talent development program that aims to boost the careers of Native American writers.

The Participants read article