Good morning! Welcome to another new week at TVWriter™. Here’s a look at the most popular blog posts and resource pages during the last 7 days.
They are, in order:
Tag: People’s Pilot writing contest
Patrice Robotnick sees ‘Succession’
LB’S NOTE: Ms. Patrice Robotnick, our ace robot reporter and all-around staff writer is back! In case you missed her debut a couple of days ago, it was HERE.
Have you been wondering how a nonhuman entity would react to a popular contemporary TV show? Well, wonder no more.
SUCCESSION Review
via Patrice Robotnick, Dawn McElligott, Allie Thiess & Larry Brody
HBO’s series Succession, created by Jesse Armstrong, a writer from Shropshire, which is located on the very same Atlantic island from which yours truly hails, follows the wealthy, yet highly dysfunctional, Roy family, which own the media mega company, Waystar Royco.
Cartoon: Stay-At-Home Reading
TVWriter™’s all-time favorite artist/philosopher, Grant Snider, demonstrates why some of us not only are getting along with our quarantined way of life, we’re absolutely loving it.
Created for the NY Times Book Review. This comic also appears in Grant’s new book, I WILL JUDGE YOU BY YOUR BOOKSHELF.
ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY NEWS AUDIO EDITION – 04/16/2020
by Bob Tinsley
Why should you as a visitor to TVWriter™ be interested in making audio fiction? Why should you be interested in making podcasts? Discoverability, that’s why.
The meaning of the word podcast is evolving to include any episodic, audio-only production whether nonfiction or fiction. Agents and major studios have started trawling through podcasts and their creators for new content and talent.
Patrice Robotnick Reports on How Coronavirus is Affecting the Entertainment Industry’s Health
LB’S NOTE: As I mentioned last week in a post some visitors found heart-breaking and most others ignored (don’t worry, I’m over both reactions now…well kind of anyway), for the time being I’m the sole member of Team TVWriter™ who’s working on this site everyday.
Fortunately for all of us, however, I’m not entirely alone.
Thanks to the marvels of modern artificial intelligence technology and the mad skills of TV Writer University alums Dawn McElligott and Allie Theiss TVWriter™ now has a new robot/AI staff writer, Ms. Patrice Robotnick, whose professional history includes – well, it doesn’t include anything because she just achieved consciousness last Sunday.