Tag: People’s Pilot Contest

Angelo J. Bell: The Gray Area of Pitching Hell

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by Angelo J. Bell

I had a pitch meeting last week with a cable network that’s now vying for position in the drama space. The network is steadily making moves to develop and air content that its existing massive audience will gravitate towards without flipping the remote control.

Consider this: 12 or 15 years ago USA Network was a fledgling network trying to find its place in the growing number of cable channels and networks. Now, USA has been top network, with a distinctive style for over a decade.

Wouldn’t you have liked to be there on the ground floor, pitching ideas to the network? read article

WGA East Will Represent Sharp Entertainment Reality Writers

by Team TVWriter™ Press Service

Hey, this is a Big Deal even if it is a press release:

WGAE_logoAlmost three months after 150 writers and producers from Sharp Entertainment filed for a National Labor Relations Board election to join the WGA East, they’ve become union members. Ballots for an election held last month were counted February 3, the guild said today. The now-members work or recently worked as staffers on Sharp’s Doomsday Preppers, Man Vs. Food, and other series.

“We are very pleased that the writer-producers at Sharp have voted to become part of the WGAE,” said Lowell Peterson, executive director of the WGA East, in a statement today. “We anticipate entering a collective bargaining agreement with Sharp that includes the provisions we have won for writer-producers employed by other nonfiction TV production companies, he added. The announcement comes as the WGA enters its second week of talks with producers on a new labor deal. read article

Peggy Bechko: Wanna Be A Writer?

Jack Kerouac does that writing thing
Jack Kerouac does that writing thing

by Peggy Bechko

Yes, really, it is.

Everything you need is there, inside you. There are parts you don’t normally let out to play, but they’re there.

Here are a few thoughts on getting your mind set right to be a writer, a really good one. read article

What happens with digital rights management in the real world?

Yeah, yeah, we know how technical that title sounds. Certainly not a big grabber of a headline. But it was written by Brits, you know. And it’s info we here at beautiful downtown TVWriter™ think everybody who creates and then releases his/her brainchildren into the interweb stream should know:

Woman using iPad tablet computer at home to browse iTunes digital music storeby Cory Doctorow

I’ve been writing about “digital rights management” (DRM) for years in this column, but here I am, about to write about it again. That’s because DRM – sometimes called “copy protection software” or “digital restrictions management” – is one of the most salient, and least understood, facts about technology in the contemporary world.

When you get into a discussion about DRM, you often find yourself arguing about whether and when copying and sharing should be allowed. Forget that for now. It’s beside the point, for reasons that will shortly be clear. Instead, let’s talk about the cold, hard legal, technical, marketplace and normative realities of DRM. Let’s talk about what happens with DRM in the real world. read article

TVWriter™ Top Posts for the Week Ending 2/21/14

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Here they are, the most viewed TVWriter™ posts for the past week:

Herbie J Pilato has some Rockin’ Good News read article