Tag: television writing

Stacey Jones: LOKI S01 E06 Review

NOTHING BUT SPOILERS (Because That’s How You Learn) #12
(Oh, and Just So You Know, This Sucker is the Longest Article TVWriter™ has Ever Published)
by Stacey Jones

EDITOR’S ALERT: This is the latest installment of Stacey Jones’ discussion of Loki and its place in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Or is it the Marvel Televerse? The real universe, maybe? My mind, it be a’wondering.

Anyway, like it says in the title of this post, a world of SPOILERS awaits below the thin red line. Oh, and also an assumption that you’re familiar with the MCU! read article

Everything We All Need to Know About Pitch Meetings

The amazing folks at Screen Rant are doing something wonderful for anyone – man, woman, child, noob, old pro – who wants to get their idea for a TV show or film on the air before the public. They have an entire series of videos on pitch meetings and how they led to some of the best – or not so best – films, TV series, any of us have ever seen.

For example: read article

LB: Speaking of Burning Bridges…

by Larry Brody

It’s “Having Second Thoughts Time!”

About the post I just made. read article

LB: To Burn Your Bridges or NOT to Burn Them? What’s the Answer?

by Larry Brody

Back in the late 1960’s, when I was starting out in TV, a very successful mentor named Jack Chertok, who had brought shows like The Lone Ranger (the original version)  My Favorite Martian, and My Living Doll to the medium gave me the following advice:

Always burn your bridges. If you can’t go back you’ll have no choice but to keep moving forward in your career. read article

Larry Brody: Live! From Paradise! #158 “Back Home from China – Hong Kong Adventure Part 3”

Moi, somewhere in China that I no longer can remember

THE USUAL NOTE FROM LB: From the summer of 2002 to  the spring of 2010, Gwen the Beautiful and I were the proud and often exhausted owners of a beautiful Ozarks property we called Cloud Creek Ranch.

In many ways, the ranch was paradise. But it was a paradise with a price that started going up before we even knew it existed. Here’s another Monday musing about our adventure and the lessons we learned.

Oh, and if y’all detect any irony, please believe me when I say it comes straight from the universe and not your kindly Uncle Larry B. read article