Tag: TV CAREER TIPS

Is “Entertainment Weekly” Screwing Writers?

This article in Salon sure makes it sound like they are:

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Entertainment Weekly, the venerable consumer-friendly magazine about movies and TV and the like, is under the same crunch as the rest of the media industry; its parent company, Time Inc., has recently gone through a series of layoffs. But the manner in which the magazine is attempting to build out its brand is the absolute worst-case scenario — bad for authors and for readers.

Lucia Moses at Digiday reports that Entertainment Weekly is to launch an online “contributor network” that is to feature readers as writers, particularly on “TV and eventually other areas […] staff reporters don’t cover deeply.” In other words, anyone can now write for Entertainment Weekly, but they shouldn’t expect a check. Per Digiday: read article

WGAW April 2014 Calendar of Events

So’s you can hang in all the right places at all the right times:

WGAW April Calendar1WGAW April Calendar2Click HERE for the, um, Clickable Version

Leesa Dean: Adventures of a Web Series Newbie

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Chapter 52: Miley Cyrus Stomped My Face
by Leesa Dean

So first, Kai and I postponed, or rather I did. We were supposed to meet to discuss the networking project but I’ve just been too swamped in post.
And when I say “post” I mean, not only the usual (editing, keying, color correcting, etc) but also animating. Part of the TOP SECRET PROJECT involves not only animation but a little live action footage, integrated in an unusual way and it’s been kicking my BEHIND. Definitely the most challenging thing I’ve ever done.

I’m hoping I’ll be finished with this phase of it by early next week. Kai and I will be meeting then, in any case.

Meanwhile, there’s been a bunch of stuff going on in the web community. For starters, and you probably heard this, Disney purchased Maker for $500 million clams. Which is…while not unexpected, a little disturbing. And not for the usual reasons. (Animators call Disney “Mouse-chwitz” where they’re known to say, “If you don’t come into work Saturday, don’t even THINK about coming into work Sunday.”) read article

The problem with 22 episode seasons

But – but – but we like 22 episode seasons. LB remembers when they were 24 episodes seasons. Hell, he can even talk about 26 and 39 week seasons – and how many more writers were able to make a good living by doing what they loved in TV. But that was then, and this is now:

by Simon Brew

tvseasonsThe announcement from ABC of the finale date for season one of the bumpy Agents Of SHIELDhas revealed that the finale of Marvel’s high profile TV show will land 231 days after the premiere. That’s 33 weeks, over which a 22 episode season has – in the past few months been dribbled out.

Putting aside the numerous complaints aimed at the show, it means that episode 22, the last of season one, will screen on May 13th. Sadly, for those trying to follow the show, the erratic scheduling has made the job several times trickier than it needed to be. Whilst the first ten episodes ran on a weekly basis, since then, it’s been anything but. We had two episodes in January, one in February, two in March, and the final, uninterrupted run will start in April. read article

The WGA’s Official Announcement of Its Impending Agreement with the AMPTP

In their own writerly words, distributed in an email sent to members. Just in case you missed it:

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To our colleagues, read article