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John Ostrander’s Grab Bag

by John Ostrander

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Random thoughts and vague notions.

New Girl On The Block. Samantha Bee has launched her new weekly news round-up show, Full Frontal. Two episodes have aired so far and, IMO, both were killer. I always loved Samantha Bee on The Daily Show – she was a great combination of fearless and shameless, and she carries that over to her new show. The writing is sharp and the delivery dead on. I loved the segment she did last week on the so-called constitutional crisis arising from the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and how it really isn’t a crisis; it’s the Republican leadership in the Senate refusing to do their job.Check it out.  read article

3 Cheers for French TV

Around TVWriter™ French television has pretty much meant only one thing: “Hey, didn’t Larry Brody have a series on a French network at the beginning of the century?”

The answer to that question, of course, was “Yeppers! It was called DIABOLIK and was on the M6 Network.” (You probably thought M6 was another Brit Intelligence Agency, right?)

Now, however, there’s more to French TV than ever before. OMG! They’re going international?! read article

How It Feels to Write for an Oscar Host

What? Chris rock isn’t writing all his Oscar-hosting material himself? He has writers? Who knew?

Actually, a lot people did. Including Vanessa Ramos. Hope y’all enjoy this interview with an unsung heroine of TV:

by Jeanne Jakle

When Oscars host Chris Rock dishes out the laughs, zingers and edgy topical humor on television’s biggest awards show Feb. 28, San Antonio viewers also will have one of their own to applaud.vanessaramos read article

Larry Brody has more to say about Characterization

The TV Writer on TV Writing
Characterization Part 2
by Larry Brody

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He’s a character! He’s a person! He’s a character! He’s a…!

I started writing about characterization a couple of months ago but got sidetracked. Sorry for the delay.

Although, now that we’re talking about this sort of thing, the fact that it took me so long to get to Part 2 tells you something about my character, doesn’t it?

Ah, but that’s a whole other kind of lesson, isn’t it? read article

The Week at TVWriter™ – February 22, 2016

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In case you’ve missed what’s happening at TVWriter™, the most popular blog posts during the week ending yesterday were:

New, Improved PEOPLE’S PILOT Opens March 1st read article