We love Rick and Morty, and we were thrilled when we learned Pringles – yep, you heard us, Pringles, that sort of food stuff you eat when the can with the real potato chips is empty – was using the Rick and Morty team to create a Super Bowl commercial.
But how weird – sad? creepy? – is it when a commercial featuring the characters in a very cool, hip, and trendy TV series is better than the show itself? We mean, what does this say about the future of TV itself?
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.
Good morning! Welcome to another new week at TVWriter™, starting with our latest look at the most popular blog posts and resource pages during the last week.
They are, in order:
The esteemed Callie Khouri, writer, producer, director especially known for her Oscar winning screenplay Thelma & Louise brings us the kind of news all too many creatives don’t want to hear…but we sure as hell need to know it, and now.
The Trump Justice Department announced at the end of 2019 that it will seek to end the landmark Paramount Consent Decrees. These decrees arose from concerns in the 1940s that a group of entertainment companies wielded outsized power over the film business. They limited the largest Hollywood production studios’ ability to own movie theater chains, control ticket prices, and fill theater screens with their own content to the exclusion of independent films. The decision by today’s Justice Department to undo the decrees continues a disturbing trend of undermining laws and regulations that promote competition and curtail abusive practices of the largest corporations.
Another mighty fine infographic we found on the web, and if you use them correctly your readers might even believe you’re young enough to, you know, pay attention to.
