Latest News About Writers Who Are Doing Better Than We Are
by munchman
Marc Klein (MIRROR, MIRROR) is developing KISMET, a parallel-reality love story, for the mighty Amazon Studios. (Does this mean that Amazon’s pay scale is a little better for established writers than it is for the newbies it’s taking advantage of? Or has Marc fallen on some very hard times? Dude, let us know!)
Freemantle Media is developing a TV series based on The Hunchback of Notre Dame. (So if you know anybody there, are friends with the project’s producer-director Roland Joffe, or are an old bud of original writer Victor Hugo now is the time to get in touch with them and become part of one of the dumbest-sounding project your friendly neighborhood munchman has ever watched other people taking seriously.)
Steve Levitan (MODERN FAMILY) has just made what munchie absolutely guarantees is a better deal then Marc Klein’s with 20th Century Fox TV, where he’ll be creating, creating, creating from the luxury of his palatial estate. muncho salues you, m’friend.)
If you’re not part of the future you’re doomed to be as forgotten as the past.
And being part of the future of entertainment is what the Transforming Hollywood Conference being held at UCLA on Friday, April 4th (all day!) is all about.
Here’s the skinny, direct from the Transforming Hollywood media futurists/P.R. team:read article
His Satanic Majesty Les Moonves and his minions have announced what shows are coming back next Fall. So all you old-timers who watch that fabulous “Least Desired Demographic” network, sit back in your recliners and take note of what CEO Moonves’ diabolical demons are up to.
“The best way to launch new shows in the fall and throughout the season is to surround them with a strong and stable lineup of successful series,” said Nina Tassler, Chairman of CBS Entertainment earlier this week. “The shows we’re picking up today cut across every night of the week and feature genre leaders, time-period winners and the most-watched shows on broadcast television.”
The 18 series announced today comprise 15.5 hours of CBS’s weekly primetime schedule and include nine dramas, five comedies, two reality series and two news programs.read article
Cuz, we assume, nobody was watching it as the Hallmark Movie Channel. In October, though, it’ll be called Hallmark Movies & Mysteries, and then, boy, will we ever see a jump in popularity.
Right?
Especially with the new logo it’s gonna get.read article
by Team TVWriter™ Press Service
by Team TVWriter™ Press Service