Tag: TV writing deals

Read Lena Dunham’s $3.7 Mil Book Proposal

Yeah, she’s 26 years old and just sold a kind of memoir/advice book for a fucking fortune. But we love Lena anyway because…um, because…we think we have a shot at her, that’s why. Right. Yeah.

This is so deluxe! Pics! Cool fonts! Detail! Forget the book. The proposal’s a masterpiece!

Actually, this is one of the best book proposals we’ve ever seen, with “best” described as “it sure as hell got my attention and looks like it’ll be fascinating to its intended audience.”

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Love & Money Dept – TV Writing Deals for 12/14/12

Latest News About Writers Doing Better Than We Are

  • Bridget Tyler (BURN NOTICE) is writing the USA pilot HORIZON, a science fiction show set during World War II. (Because, evidently, network executives think the current generation of TV viewers, who’ve barely even heard of WWII will care.)
  • Unknown Writer (um, do we really have to explain why we aren’t putting some credits in here?) will soon be writing the ABC pilot BASTARDS, about a Cuban-American family that discovers the family patriarch had a child with the family’s maid decades ago. (Because network executives think Ahnold has made maid-shtupping cool?)
  • Philip Gawthorne (EASTENDERS, among other UK shows) is writing the pilot for the drama HUMAN ERROR for Starz. The show is about a “synthetic” human detective in the near future. (Because Data is the most popular member of the cast on all versions of STAR TREK re-runs. Or not.)
  • Gideon Raff (Israeli version of TYRANT) has written the pilot for, yes, a U.S. version of the same show for FX. TYRANT tells what happens to a modest American family when it’s drawn into the conspiracies of a “turbulent Middle Eastern nation.” (Why is FX bothering to make the family American when this show is clearly going to be all about Israel? Could it be because U.S. audiences are considered the most xenophobic in the world? Hmm?)
  • Robert Zemeckis (BACK TO THE FUTURE) is reviving his feature film, DEATH BECOMES HER, a comedy about 2 bitchy women who take an eternal youth serum and must live forever with its consequences, as a drama for Bravo. (Why a drama? Because making it a sitcom would be too sane an idea, of course!)

Love & Money Dept – TV Writing Deals for 12/10/12

Latest News About Writers Doing Better Than We Are

  • Mike Judge (KING OF THE HILL) is is writing the HBO pilot SILICON VALLEY, where, according to the press release “the people most qualilfied to succeed are the least capable of handling success.” (What a straight line! So many ways to mock it! So much irony going to waste. But we refuse to give in to the temptation. Refuse, we say!)
  • Carl Binder (STARGATE) & David Titcher (THE LIBRARIAN) are writing the ABC pilot WEIRD DESK, which is described as a series “which has a paranormal focus, tracks an organization taking on mysterious cases that have been redirected from the CIA and the NSA.” (Guess they think that THE X-FILES team can’t sue because the show doesn’t also name the FBI, but guess what, ABC? Yeah, your derivative POS – that’s “piece of shit” to those not into acronyms – will not be weirdly immune to justice, we predict. Oh no, did we just go too far?)
  • Quick, call your agent ‘cuz there doesn’t seem to be a writer attached, just a producer named Jennifer Love Hewitt: Lifetime is developing MRS. G’s BIGGER LOVE  about a female polygamist “who attracts a book agent and fame.” (Actually, we think we know why there’s no writer. Everyone they went to turned it down. They must have, dammit. Jesus!)
  • Another project listed without a writer is ABC’s sitcom JENNI, starring Jenni Rivera, a “Mexican-American Singer who has sold 20 million albums, according to the announcement. In this stale piece of crap, the star plays a single Latina woman who is both raising her family and running a business. (Do the words, “Please, somebody, shoot me now” sound too harsh?)

Love & Money Dept – TV Writing Deals for 12/8/12

Latest News About Writers Doing Better Than We Are

  • Liz Tigelaar (LIFE UNEXPECTED) is redoing her ABC drama pilot JONESES for Bravo. (A family with a secret moves to the burbs. Ooh!)
  • Krista Vernoff (GREY’S ANATOMY) is writing the pilot for RITA for Bravo, which will be adapted from a Danish drama series. (A teacher raises her teenage children while facing such vicissitudes as bureaucracy and overprotected parents at her schoo. Ooh, ooh!)
  • Michael Caleo (the upcoming MALAVITA) is writing a pilot for a rebooted version of IRONSIDE for NBC. (Genius cop in wheelchair torments his team by actings even jerkier than Dr. House while solving crimes. Oy!)
  • Alex Winter (actor in BILL AND TED, etc.) & Steven Pearl (?)  are writing the pilot for RIGHTS OF BILL for AMC. (Small town sheriff creates his own militia, becoming an outlaw while remaining a lawman. (Oy, oy!)

Sorry. We were working toward a punchline here with the “ooh” and “oy” thing, but it didn’t pan out because we couldn’t find our ending “Ahh.” Depressing, isn’t it? Hmm, wonder if instead of done deals we should write about the concepts that didn’t get sold? Like, you know, the good ones?

Love & Money Dept – TV Writing Deals for 12/5/12

Latest News About Writers Doing Better Than We Are

  • Diane Farr (NUMB3RS) will write a “semi-autobiographical comedy” for NBC based on her memoir, Kissing Outside the Lines. (Yes, she’s known as an actress, not a writer, but, hey, she’s cute, you know?)
  • Alison McDonald (NURSE JACKIE) is adapting her short video SHE GOT PROBLEMS in a pilot script for ABC. (Strangely, she also acts and does stand-up as well. Infer what ye may.)
  • David Goodman (THE FAMILY GUY) and Jason Ruiz (newby!) are teaming up to write MURDER POLICE, an animated comedy about a bumbling detective for Fox. (Neither of these guys is an actress, but Newby Ruiz is a top animator, which in our minds is much better prep for the rigors/horrors of writing a new series.)
  • Andy Bobrow (COMMUNITY) is writing the pilot for a sitcom, ROOKIE, about a young woman “reinventing” herself as a cop. (What? She was a robber before?)