Dawn McElligott: Ready-to Wear? High Fashion? Mockery for the Next TV Season?

by Dawn McElligott

Critiques of THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA are showing up all over YouTube.  Viewers are enjoying the dissection of selected scenes with explanations of what makes them work. One video, “Andy Gets a Makeover,” attracted well over a million views since JoBlo Movie Clips posted it in June.

Impressive for a 15-year-old movie.

At the same time, Throw Back TV is posting scenes and full episodes of JUST SHOOT ME, a sitcom on NBC that poked fun at women’s magazines from 1997 to 2003. read article

Attn. Web Series Creators, Stareable Fest is Back for 2021

One of the best intentioned as well as best run and most helpful festivals we know of wants – well, to put it succinctly, it wants ALL OF US!

NOTE: TVWriter™ gets nothing out of this particular event except the satisfaction of knowing we’re helping y’all learn about and attend something we believe in.)

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Cartoon: ‘Holes’

Our favorite cartoonist-philosopher, Grant Snider takes on the uncertainty of creativity, just as so many of us do every writing day. With style.

More of Grant Snider’s sensitive perception of humanity and creativity at Incidental Comics, HERE

Still More Cartoons About Writers and Writing

Settle back and do what we did when we found these. In other words, stop thinking about the writing problem in your current creation and laugh!

Cartoon: ‘Sunday’

Our favorite cartoonist-philosopher, Grant Snider reveals his thoughts and feelings about a human aspiration that is by its very nature impossible to achieve but which has been responsible for the vast majority – if not all – of our greatest artistic creations.

More of Grant Snider’s sensitive perception of humanity and creativity at Incidental Comics, HERE