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Seth MacFarlane Getting WGAW Award

And no, it isn’t for being the Most Unlikable Talent Inflicting Himself on the Public This Year. It’s because whether you like this dude or not, he’s a helluva writer:

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How much do you love Seth M?

by Patrick Hipes

Seth MacFarlane has been set to receive the WGA West Animation Writers Caucus’ 2015 Animation Writing Award. It’s a lifetime achievement honor for MacFarlane, and will be bestowed tonight in a ceremony at the Writers Guild Theater in Beverly Hills. He follows Len Uhley, who won the award last year, andThe Simpsons‘ Sam Simon the year before.

MacFarlane created Family Guy and at 25 became the showrunner of the animated comedy, now in its 13th season. American Dad and The Cleveland Show followed, as well as a feature film career as an actor-writer-director, Fox’s science series Cosmos: A Space Time Odyssey, and a stint as Oscar host. He also is a Grammy-nominated crooner. read article

Indie Video: ARE YOU FIT FOR COMMAND?

This is fucking funny. Indie video scores again!

More cool stuff by the creators of this little masterwork!

Forgotten TV Gems: HE & SHE

HE AND SHE Capture 1

by Lew Ritter

In the late ’60s, three networks ruled the airwaves. The Internet and Streaming were not even a gleam in a Sci-fi writer’s eye. Network comedies consisted of rural comedies filled with country bumpkins outsmarting the bumbling city slickers. A big star dominated every show, their gleam illuminated by contrast with a few minor character actors.

In 1967, in the midst of this drought, CBS programmed HE & SHE into the middle of their hit Wednesday night lineup of shows including highbrow fare such as THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES and GREEN ACRES. It would be a smart urban comedy surrounded by the bucolic waste land. It proved to be the proverbial fish out of water, but only lasted one season.

The brilliance of the show was in three areas: read article

1,715 Scripted Shows and Nothing On?

Some people are sooo hard to please!

mr_robot_s01e10_stillby Tim Goodman

Five years ago, there was no House of Cards or Orange Is the New Black. Amazon was shipping products, not signing Woody Allen to make television. Nobody thought Jerry Seinfeld, creator and star of one of TV’s greatest series, would make a show for the Internet.

Around that time, I was hired as THR‘s chief television critic, and I would like to think that I knew big changes were coming to the industry — but maybe not this big. read article

Alan Moore Advises New Writers to Self-Publish

…Because having to even acknowledge the existence of publishers sucks.

The writer of WATCHMEN, LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN, SWAMP THING, MIRACLEMAN, and a host of other great comic books is known for his anti-publisher, anti-film studio, anti-who-knows-what-else feelings. Here he is expressing himself while protesting the closing of a library i his homeland, the UK:

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