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Latest News About Writers Who Are Doing Better Than We Are
- Bernie Richburg (a pal of Pam Grier) is writing the pilot for an Entertainment One series starring Pam Grier as the head of a squad of “shoot first, ask questions” later Homeland Security agents. (Ethical/political considerations aside, this thing has “hit” written all over it cuz Pam Grier, Pam Grier, PAM GRIER!!!)
- Christina Wayne (a Development Exec – uh-oh) has a new producing deal at Endemol Studios and is looking to develop projects so don’t just sit there, get in touch with her. (Pretend you know her. Take
it her to lunch. This is opportunity knocking, gang. For reals.)
- Carol Flint (ER) is writing the pilot for MDX, an Endemol Studios TV project. (See? We toldja they were real.)
- Zack Stentz & Ashley Miller (THOR) are developing a new TERMINATOR TV series for Fox. (And they’ll be syncing it with the franchise’s return to the big screen as well. Which could be terrific…or horrible, depending on the way the two work together. Or if Pam Grier is involved. Yeah, Pam Grier as a TV terminator. Would that not be amaaazing?)
- Doug Ellin (ENTOURAGE) has a new overall deal at CBS studios. (Nothing to see here, folks. Move along, move along. Maybe you’ll run into Pam Grier around the corner, who knows?)
Latest News About Writers Who Are Doing Better Than We Are
- Benjamin Brand (BOLLYWOOD HERO) is adapting William Bernhardt’s book, Nemesis: The Final Case Of Eliot Ness, into a miniseries for NBC. (Cuz…Fucking Eliot Fucking Ness, everybody knows him – if they were alive and watching TV back in what, the late ’50s?)
- David Diamond & David Weissman (THE FAMILY MAN) have sold a drama series concept, THE DOUBLE LIFE OF EMILY REED, to ABC. (Cuz let’s face it, if you’re a TV network d-person with no life of your own, the idea of anybody with two of them sounds positively scintillating, no?)
- Jonathan Abrams (your guess is as good as ours) has sold a drama called WISDOM to ABC. (Cuz it’s basically a soap about Silicon Valley and the title is what passes for clever irony to people who feel threatened by tech. Trust us on this one.)
- Daniel Knauf (NBC’s DRACULA) is developing a series based on the 1941 and 2010 feature film(s) THE WOLFMAN. (Cuz…the Fucking Wolfman, dammit. Everybody does know him.)
- Some dude named Louis C.K. just signed an overall deal with FX to develop and produce new series. (We dunno about you, but we can’t imagine any producer anywhere he could do any idea we’ve ever had or ever will have better than Louis. Time to call our agent…and pray.)
Latest News About Writers Who Are Doing Better Than We Are
- David Goodman (THE FAMILY GUY) has a new overall deal at 20th Century Fox TV. (And we’re very happy for him – unless David’s the one who came up with the idea of offing Brian, in which case he should immediately be cast down to the innermost circle of hell for fucking with our fannish head.)
- Chris Gerolmo (MISSISSIPPI BURNING) is developing DOC FORD, a drama based on Randy Wayne White’s book series about the Doc, for CBS. (And we’re really happy for him as well – unless “Chris Gerolmo” is a pseudonym for David Goodman, in which case we’re getting more pissed off by the second, even if it turns out that Brian isn’t really dead and that this was just a ratings and publicity trick)
- Justin Adler (BETTER OFF TED) is writing the pilot for an NBC version of 30 AND COUNTING, which began its life as a UK series by Chris Little about the lives of former college buds. (Not something we normally care about one way or another, but if we ever learn that David Goodman is involved we’re going to the next NBC stockholders meeting and raise 600 kinds of hell cuz the more we think about it, the more horrible it is if in fact Brian isn’t dead and we’re getting all teary-eyed over nothing.)
- James McBride’s book Song Yet Sung is about to become an FX series about the underground railroad and the life of Harriet Tubman. No adaptor has been named, so it’s time for all interested writing parties to make their moves. (Except you, David Goodman cuz…Briannnnnn!!!! Oh, damn, how it hurts….)
Latest News About Writers Who Are Doing Better Than We Are
- Billy Ray (CAPTAIN PHILLIPS) is adapting The Last Tycoon, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s
highly touted famed novel about showbiz back in the day, into a series for HBO. (Now, we loves us our Billy Ray – wotta fine writer – but a hoary old unfinished novel they kept trying to get us to read in college lit? Sorry, but this concept definitely falls under the category of – who the fuck cares?)
- Liz W. Garcia & Joshua Harto (HOMELAND) are writing the pilot for an untitled CW series about an undercover FBI agent (young, female, and of course beautiful) who discovers a terrorist cell “hiding in plain sight.” (Hmm, guess it’s not a ripoff when you hire writers to recycle their previous hit. But it sure as hell is another example of a concept that fills us with that old feeling, AKA – who the fuck cares?)
- Speaking of recycling, Meredith Stiehm (THE BRIDGE), is leaving THE BRIDGE to take over as showrunner of HOMELAND, which she left a few years ago so she could, you know, create and run THE BRIDGE. (We’re guessing Showtime gave her an offer she couldn’t refuse and amazed to find a writer smart enough to not have burned her bridge behind her when she said good-bye. Here’s hoping she can return HOMELAND to its former grandeur so that when we watch we can stop thinking – all together now – who the fuck cares?)
- J.R. Orci (THE BLACKLIST) has a new overall deal with Sony TV. (And we’re confident that even though he’s the brother of half of what we here at TVWriter™ affectionately think of as The Absolutely Worst TV Writing Team to Ever Make us “Say Who the Fuck Cares?” we wish him tons of luck cuz…not burning bridges might be a good idea even for us, you know?)
- Tip to every writer reading this who knows or has worked with Joan Harrison at CBS, TLC, The Travel Channel, or the Gersh Agency: She’s now the Senior Veep of Scripted Programming & Development at Asylum Entertainment. So give her a call. Wine her and dine her. (And, please, pitch something better than everything we’ve written about above.)
Latest News About Writers Who Are Doing Better Than We Are
- Garth Ennis & Steve Dillon (PREACHER comic series) are developing the comic about a Texas preacher and the various manifestations of evil he hangs with as a series for AMC. (And we think it could really work there cuz it makes BREAKING BAD look all warm and fuzzy.)
- Jan Nash (MEMPHIS BEAT) is the new showrunner on RIZZOLI & ISLES. (So if you know her, time to take the nice lady to lunch and pitch your little heart out while she’s still re-staffing.)
- Chad Kultgen (THE INCREDIBLE BURT WONDERSTONE) has written the pilot for NBC’s BAD JUDGE, a comedy about a “hard-living, sexually unapologetic woman” who also happens to be a criminal court judge. (We see exactly how this would work as a drama. But comedy? We’re looking forward to seeing this one to find out.)
- Amanda Lund & Matt Gourley (GHOST GHIRLS web series) are writing WUNDERLAND, a Fox comedy about what it’s like to work at a place just like Disneyland that, of course, isn’t Disneyland. (We had our hopes up for about a second…but then we saw that Diablo Cody is the producer. So we’re going out on a limb to say that this one will probably be…meh.)
- Erin Ehrlich (AWKWARD) is writing an unnamed NBC comedy about “young 20-something nursing students” and “their ups and downs.” (Aren’t you glad they included the word “young” as well as the actually, you know, age? Cuz otherwise we all might have thought they were old 20-somethings, right?)