DOCTOR WHO Series 12 Finale Explained

“Spoilers? Who cares about steenkin’ spoilers?”

We know, a lot of people do. Sometimes we here at TVWriter™ are among them. But not this time around. Because every single one of us slaving away for our Beloved Leader Larry Brody agrees that knowing the info in this essay by Kyle Anderson on nerdist.com richer.

Not only that, it also has made the entirety of our Doctor Who experience fuller and just plain more fun. Ignore this if you must, but enjoy it if you, erm, you know, mustn’t. read article

Bob Tinsley: The Road to ESCAPE!

by Bob Tinsley

In case you weren’t aware, on February 26 the first trailer for my space opera fiction podcast, ESCAPE!, went live on Anchor.fm and new episodes are being posted weekly.

The pilot for ESCAPE! won Second Place in the Drama/Action category of the 2019 People’s Pilot competition. read article

Cartoon: Delights

TVWriter™’s all-time favorite artist/philosopher, Grant Snider, has an interesting goal. Or maybe it’s a plan.

Inspired by DELIGHT by J.B. Priestley and THE BOOK OF DELIGHTS by Ross Gay, he is “starting a new series on things that bring me joy. I plan to draw these until I reach 365 panels, or until my delight runs out.”

To which we, Grant’s biggest fans, can only say: read article

I Tried to Make a Streaming TV Value Guide but Failed and Wrote This Instead

You guys ever visit ReviewGeek.Com? It has some awesome reviews, and although most of the things they write about are techie stuff, once in a while you can run across this kind of writerly gem.

by Michael Crider

[A couple of months] ago, I wrote a guide for those who wanted to find the best value for a streaming service with live TV channels. A few days after it published, my selection for the best value upped its price by ten bucks, blowing my comparison apart like a cherry bomb in a Thanksgiving turkey. read article

Larry Brody: Live! From Paradise! #87 – “Burl Jr.’s New Gal”

THE USUAL NOTE FROM LB: From the summer of 2002 to  the spring of 2010, Gwen the Beautiful and I were the proud and often exhausted owners of a beautiful Ozarks property we called Cloud Creek Ranch.

In many ways, the ranch was paradise. But it was a paradise with a price that started going up before we even knew it existed. Here’s another Monday musing about our adventure and the lessons we learned.

Oh, and if y’all detect any irony, please believe me when I say it comes straight from the universe and not your kindly Uncle Larry B. read article