Look! It’s THE VENTURE BROTHERS Season 6 Trailer! With Brock even.
When we say “returns” we don’t mean just a season premiere, oh no. We’re talking that the entire new season will be on Adult Swim starting at midnight, Sunday, January 31st, and continuing for zillions of minutes until we’re totally flooded on the wonderment of what promises to be some of the best writing on TV.
“…And,” as the headline at UK’s The Guardian tells us, “hilarity ensues.” Here’s why:
Hit HBO comedy Girls is to end after its sixth season, much to the distress of fans, but the era-defining show – created and written by and starringLena Dunham – is part of a surge of female-driven TV shows on both sides of the Atlantic.
Television has long been criticised for its lack of female comedy writers, but that is changing. “There does seem to be this whole new wave of very talented women who are writing smart and funny and very complicated male and female characters. It really feels like a moment,” says Rachel Springett, comedy commissioning editor at Channel 4.
Doctor Who, the long-running BBC TV series about a humanoid alien transversing through time and space with his companions, has wound up its current season, its tenth since it’s return following a long hiatus. The current actor playing the part, Peter Capaldi, is the fourth actor (or the fifth depending how you number it) since the show returned or the twelfth or thirteenth since the show’s inception. The numbering differential is a wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey thing.
The show has sparked a discussion among the fans lately because, well, that’s what fans do, especially of a cult science-fiction show such as this one. There’s great passion and great heat as usual with these things along with the absolute conviction of one side that they are right and that those on the other side are wrong. It doesn’t matter which side of a debate you’re on, the other guy is wrong. There’s a lot of passion and maybe some thought and that’s what happens with a fan disagreement.
The current issue under debate is that Doctor Who began as a children’s show back in 1963 and it should always be a children’s show. The position of some is that the current monsters are often too scary for children, the continuity has become too complex for children, the relationships are inappropriate for children.
A treat for Whedon fans, Wonder Woman fans, and anybody else who wants to discover for him or herself what works in a script and what doesn’t…in real time:
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Some of my favorite writers quotes about writing that I simply must share with you! What better time than the beginning of a new year to take a break from writing and reflect a bit, both soberly and with some humor?
“We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.”
—Ernest Hemingway
Who can argue with that?