What took them so long?
by TVWriter™ News Service
Via podnews.net
Netflix has announced it’s to launch its first original scripted podcast, with Spotify.
Tag: screenwriting
Toys We Want -ASAP!!!
Current GOTTA-HAVES here at TVWriter™.
What? You thought we were all old and serious and such? Hell, even our Beloved Leader, Larry Brody, who’s older than, well, than all those hills people are always “as old as,” has shelled out for the following. Now if we can only get him to put them on the shelf in our cube.)
Avengers: Endgame MMS558 Hulk 1/6th Scale Collectible Figure
BY HOT TOYS – BRAND MARVEL
LB: Latest Apple TV+ News
by Larry Brody
I got an early birthday – or maybe it was Christmas – present this year from Apple. A free one-year subscription to the Apple TV+ streaming site.
This means I get to watch Apple’s ultra-expensively produced TV shows that probably shouldn’t be called TV shows because they’re made for interweb streaming.
Cartoon: ‘The Haunted House’
We meant to publish this insightful (and sweet) look at Halloween by Grant Snider, philosopher-cartoonist extraordinaire, last week, on, you know, Halloween. But then we started bobbing for apples and carving pumpkins and swapping costumes and one thing led to another and…well, we forgot is what we did.
Enjoy Grant Snider doing what he does best – feeling and even more importantly expressing his feelings – now:
The 7 Most Influential Shows of the Decade
We disagree with the choices below, but we love it when critics pay attention to the importance of writing and writers and their contributions to the quality of TV. And the writers of the shows below definitely had their shit together.
by Tim Surette
The last 10 years have been pretty weird for almost everyone, but nothing had a better decade than television. From the advent of streaming to finally competing with (and, in some cases, overtaking) the film industry, TV experienced a rate of growth and maturity usually reserved for scrawny junior high school kids over summer break.
And while television undoubtedly left an impact on all of us, its greatest impact was on itself. New trends, new technologies, and new standards all made the decade starting in 2010 massive for TV, and those marks have already started shaping what and how we’ll watch over the next decade.