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New Series STATE OF SYN is as Innovative as You Get

Not a PR montage - this is an actual scene from the 1st episode
Not a PR montage – this is an actual scene from the 1st episode

Hulu has spared, well, it’s spared a great deal of expense, as a matter of fact, in bringing its new series, STATE OF SYN to the interweb/our TVs. But the show isn’t your garden variety cheapo. It’s a kind of fumetti, a live-action comic strip with real actors, including FIREFLY’s Jewel Staite supplying the voices over their limited animation photo-images.

STATE OF SYN debuted on Hulu.Com last Saturday, with all its episodes in place, ready to stream. And while TVWriter™ wasn’t all that thrilled with the sound and the acting – very Saturday morning animation, kids, sorry – we love the potential, especially as it applies to indie film and video makers/peer producers.

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Why Pilot Season Is No Longer a Necessity

Actually, in the words of Beloved Leader LB: “‘No longer a necessity?’ Goddamn it, it never was!”

Here’s the BigMedia perspective, however, from FX and Fox, courtesy of Indiewire:

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Some suit from FX

by Alison Willmore

While the film industry continues to see seismic shifts in the way movies are made, released and monetized, the television industry is experiencing its own major changes. Viewers have been drifting away from live TV in favor of recording things on their DVRs and zipping through the commercials, or cutting the cord entirely and consuming series online. read article

Peggy Bechko: Cornering Your Character

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by Peggy Behcko

We’re writers. We tend to fall in love with our character. They become our buddies and we’re loath to hurt them or cause them extreme difficulty.

And yet that’s exactly what we have to do in order to produce a fantastic script or novel. You have to be downright mean, forcing your favored character into a corner with no obvious way out and very little wiggle room.

Those who read your novels or watch the movie resulting from your script have to see a character with a spine, convictions, and unique personality to cheer for. That’s what they’re there for. That’s why they read and watch movies. read article

The Untold Legal Drama Of Coyote v. Acme

Cuz we all need something to love:

coyote v acmeby Geoff Manaugh

Back in 1990, in an awesome piece for The New Yorker, author Ian Frazier told the—shall we say—little-known story of Wile E. Coyote’s endless legal battles with the Acme Company. Now, the tale of Coyote’s legal tribulations, suing Acme for grievous personal injury and catastrophic product malfunction, has been designed and republished by Michael Bierut of Pentagram, featuring original diagrams by Daniel Weil.

Frazier’s premise is that Coyote has finally had enough of the injury, trauma, and humiliation inflicted upon him by Acme products—products that never seem to work as intended and that always, in the end, turn against the person (or, his case, animal) using them. So he has lawyered up and taken his case to court. read article

VERONICA MARS digital series winging its way to the interwebs

by Team TVWriter™ Press Service

veronica-mars-movie-posterThe CW announced today that a spinoff of the long-running show that’s about to hit the big screen will air online. It’s from Rob Thomas, the creator of the series and the upcoming movie.

The show will post on CW Seed, the network’s home for original digital series.

Sadly, the CW had very few details to share with the press today at the annual Television Critics Tour in Pasadena because the deal was justdone. CW Entertainment President Mark Pedowitz said Thomas is “thrilled” with what CW Seed is doing and already has some ideas about what characters could be featured in the spinoff. read article