Can’t help it. This site has me by the scro throat. I check it every day. 4 times a day. It’s more important than food, drink, my career…
Oh, wait, I don’t have a career. But I could if…if…
Can no one rid me of this accursed addiction?!
Tag: television writing
LB Got This Tweet
by Larry Brody
Fall TV Pilot Preview: NBC’s ‘Animal Practice’
by Diane Gordon
What happens when a vet cares far more for the animals he treats than the humans who own them? That’s the premise of Animal Practice, a new NBC sitcom with Justin Kirk at the center as George Coleman, one of the best vets working but he has no tolerance or empathy for people. When he’s forced to work with his former flame, Dorothy Rutledge (Joanna Garcia Swisher) after she inherits the facility, they butt heads about how best to run the hospital, especially when it comes to treating the pet owners better.
The Hollywood Reporter screened the pilot of Animal Practice and found the workplace comedy surprising and funny. Here’s what you need to know about it.
BOARDWALK EMPIRE and TREME Returning to HBO for 3rd Seasons
HBO Sets Return Dates for ‘Boardwalk Empire,’ ‘Treme’
by Lesley Goldberg
Boardwalk’s third season — its first without co-starMichael Pitt, whose character was whacked in the Season 2 finale — will bow its 12-episode run at 9 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 16.
The 10-episode third year of Treme, from The Wirecreator David Simon, will launch the following week, at 10 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 23.
Why All Writers Should Know the Classics
…And, now that we bring it up, readers too:
Christopher Nolan on The Dark Knight Rises’ Literary Inspiration
by Silas Lesnick
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…”
The Mickey Mouses We Missed
Ward Kimball, one of Disney’s top animators, drew these in 1985. As his notes indicate, none of them has ever been used.
FWIW, we prefer the one labeled “Too Revealing,” but that’s just our way.