Here they are, the most viewed TVWriter™ posts during the past week:
Tag: People’s Pilot Contest
munchman: SAILOR MOON is coming back on the air – soon!
C’mon. You know you’re gonna watch this. You gotta. It’s fucking Sailor fucking Moon!
According to the P.R. we got over here at TVWriter™ Central (Southern California Division), Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Crystal (yeah, it’s not the most wieldy of names – got a problem with that?) will hit the airwaves July 5th on the Niconico Video Service with new episodes on the first and third Saturdays of each month.
Love & Money Dept – TV Writing Deals for 5/2/14
Latest News About Writers Who Are Doing Better Than We Are
by munchman
- Max Brooks (WORLD WAR Z, the graphic novel) has optioned his new book, The Extinction Parade to Legendary TV for development as a TV series. (So if you know Max it’s time to put in your bid for the writing gig. And if you don’t know him, now’s the time to change that and then put in your bid.)
- David Schulner (DO NO HARM) has extended his deal with Universal TV and will be developing away while the studio pays for an office, an assistant, and, munchie bets ya, a tidy chunk of change dropped into his auto-deposit every week.(Not much point in kissing up to David, though. He’ll probably write everything he develops cuz that’s where his value to Universal lies. Of course, if you like him and the friendship is real, that’s something nobody can fault you for. Except maybe your greedy agent.)
- Sarah Phelps (EASTENDERS) is adapting J.K. Rowling‘s novel The Casual Vacancy into a miniseries for HBO and BBC. (Yes, Ms. Phelps is a UK writer. We Amurricans are out. Live with it.)
- J. Mills Goodloe (THE BEST OF ME, whatever that is) is writing the pilot for a Bravo dramedy, ALL THE PRETTY FACES, about an immortal family in Half Moon Bay California. (Dramedy? Science fiction? A beautiful beach town? Sounds perfect to the muncher. Only one little fly in this ointment: It’s a vehicle for its producer, Jennifer Garner. And, hey, I admit it – Yer Friendly Neighborhood munchman is no fan of Ben Affleck’s women. Sorry.)
Want to See Some Commissioned Professional Pilot Scripts?
We’ve talked about the Google TV Writing site as one of the major interweb resources for professional pilot scripts, many of the for our favorite shows, before. But now, thanks to FOTV (friend of TVWriter™) James Kelly, we’re here to tell you that there are even more – and newer scripts than before.
Including these, from 2013-14:
The 100- Almost Human
- Believe
- Betrayal
- The Blacklist
- Black Sails
- Bosch
- Crisis
- Dracula
- Fargo
- Helix
- Hit the Floor
- Hostages
- Intelligence
- Ironside
- Killer Women
- Klondike
- Lucky 7
- Masters of Sex
- Mind Games
- Mob City
- The Musketeers
- Rake
- The Red Road
- Reign
- Resurrection
- Salem
- Signed, Sealed, Delivered
- Sleepy Hollow
- Stalkers
- Star-Crossed
- Those Who Kill
- The Tomorrow People
- Turn
- Twisted
- Witches of East End
How cool is all this?
Why You Never Want to Write a Novel for Hire
…Or a short story, or a screenplay, or a comic book, or a TV series.
But we do write for hire. Unfortunately, at one time or another just about all writers do.
This article, however, has a great twist. We think it should have been called, “The Vamp Writer’s Revenge.” Bwahhh: