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Herbie J Pilato: New “Bewitched” Will Twitch On NBC!
EDITOR’S UPDATE: More to come on this from other voices of TVWriter™, we’re sure.
EDITOR’S NOTE: This just in from Contributing Editor/Classic TV Fanatic Herbie J Pilato (AKA Our Man at the Front Lines:
by Herbie J Pilato
Congratulations to NBC for landing Sony’s new take on Bewitched!
CBS & HBO’s Standalone Streaming Websites – New TV Paradigm or…?
Yesterday we posted an assessment of CBS and HBO’s announced forays into interweb subscription streaming and thought that was the last word. But lo and behold – just when we think we have Deadline.Com pegged as a voice of conservative H’wood, along comes a big breaking curveball. Namely, this wonderfully cynical analysis of the recent announcements that CBS and HBO are going to offer paid streaming on the web:
by David Lieberman
Do you think that Big Media companies are about to blow up one of the greatest rackets in American business – one that accounts for the vast majority of their profits? The New York Times apparently does based on its geewhiz front page storythis morning (in sync with a lot of trendy commentary this week) pegged to new initiatives by CBS and Time Warner’s HBO to offer some of their programming online to people who pay them monthly subscription fees.
Meet TVWriter™’s Herbie J Pilato Tomorrow!
(UPDATE: Not only will Herbie J and Caryn Richman be here, so will Kathy Garver of FAMILY AFFAIR and Stanley Livingston of MY THREE SONS. Herbie’s lining up the big guns!)
Tell him munchman sent you! (And then tell us how Herbie reacted.)
Troy DeVolld: “I Think… (Not)”
by Troy DeVolld
Working on Dancing With the Stars again has been a real treat, thought it’s certainly keeping me away from the blog.
Just wanted to pop by today and share a neat little thought on interviews courtesy of my pal Dan, another producer on the show.
We were having a conversation about good interview technique this week, and he offered up a great bit of advice that hadn’t occurred to me after a decade and a half of working on interview questions and conducting more than my share of “look at me, not at the camera” sit-downs.