munchman: 2 Adorable Little Girls Talk About the DOCTOR WHO CHRISTMAS SPECIAL

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Woo-hoo! A DOCTOR WHO Christmas ornament!

Which in one reality is very charming, especially because the two girls are articulate as all hell. But in another reality, hey, they’re doing a series of these. Is this child abuse?

Any thoughts? Inquiring minds wanna…you know:

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Amazon Studios Wants Us All to Do Some Audience Research For ‘Em

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Know what? We’re really starting to like Amazon Studios commitment to giving the audience exactly what it wants…by asking it.

Know why? Cuz they explain exactly what they want and how to do it with such care that we don’t really have to do anything but point you to the link. read article

Sal Calleros Strikes Again!

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Former SPEC SCRIPTACULAR Finalist and longtime TVWriter™ supporter Sal Calleros has been writing away on the new ABC series, KILLER WOMEN. The series debuts tonight at 10 PM on the 2 coasts, and 8 or 9 in, you know, the middle.

Here’s ABC’s description of KILLER WOMEN: read article

Peer Production: An Interview with Travis Richey

…AKA Not INSPECTOR SPACETIME, our favorite TV-series-within-a-TV-series on COMMUNITY:

Peggy Bechko: Giving Your Characters the Squeeze

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We writers know readers, whether novel readers or script readers, can’t hardly resist turning your pages when you work to force your characters to face difficult decisions. It’s nearly a compulsion for that reader to find out how your characters are going to cope with, sort out and come to terms with those decisions.

It’s a fact.

So, how do we, as writers, manage to accomplish that? How do we take characters of our creation, for whom we actually form some gently twisted attachments, present them with moral predicaments in the story and get them to flounder through to solutions? read article