…Cuz, you know, she could.
In the words of TVWRITER™ contributor Herbie J Pilato, who discovered this particular almost-news item, “Ok, THIS is crazy – and yet…pret
Tag: People’s Pilot Contest
Sherlock and Doctor Who: beware of fans influencing the TV they love
Agree? Disagree? Both?
by Mark Lawson
Doctor Who and Sherlock are linked by inspiration – Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss write for both – and by impact: the shows were awarded the prime seasonal drama slots on Christmas Day and New Year’s Day respectively. But those special editions also demonstrated another connection between them: these series are significantly redefining the relationship between television programmes and fans.
For most of the history of TV drama, fans have been on the outside looking in. New episodes or series were released by the creators for consumption by the audience, whose only possible effect on the product was to raise or lower the ratings figures that might influence whether a new series was commissioned. More recently, websites and social media have changed beyond recognition the way in which a show is watched, through preview, real-time and review discussion between viewers. But again, this had relatively little impact on the product, apart from recent cases such as Arrested Development and Ripper Street, in which digital petitions won a streamed reprieve for a franchise cancelled by a network.
Netflix and Its Paint-by-Numbers TV Series Paradigm
Whoa, talk about fascinating research. Netflix seems to have succeeded where everyone else in TV and films has failed: The company has discovered what it sees as a foolproof logarithm for creating shows and movies its audience wants to see. Does this mean creators – real creators – are doomed?
How Netflix Reverse Engineered Hollywood
by Alexis C. Madrigal
If you use Netflix, you’ve probably wondered about the specific genres that it suggests to you. Some of them just seem so specific that it’s absurd. Emotional Fight-the-System Documentaries? Period Pieces About Royalty Based on Real Life? Foreign Satanic Stories from the 1980s?
The New Year’s Writing Resolution You Can Actually Keep
The title is right on. We believe that this article does indeed tell us how to keep a resolution to write. But…is writing all by itself enough? Or should we be working at writing with an added adverb like “well,” or “effectively?” Oh, wait, that’s the second step, we get it. The first step, which we definitely agree with, is to just plain: WRITE!!!
by Sonia Simone
It’s that time of year again. Time for resolutions, and for all of the skeptics and killjoys who say that resolutions never work.
They certainly can work, but you need to approach them the right way.
First Pic of Peter Capaldi on Set as the Doctor…
…Since the last first pic of him there. But you know you want to see it. Just the thought sets your heart racing, right? (Cuz, admit it, you’re just like – gasp – us):
