How to Tell if a TV Show is Probably Not Going to End Well

Charlie Jane Anders knocks it out of the park again:

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by Charlie Jane Anders

Many of us have commitment issues with television, because we’ve been burned so many times by weak or overblown endings. (And no doubt, a lot of us are anxiously praying that Fringe gets the powerful conclusion it deserves tonight.) But there’s no reason to give up on long-form series television because of some past bumps in the road — after all, TV has also given us some powerful endings. Instead, the next time you launch a long-term relationship with a TV show, best to go into it with your eyes open. read article

Top TVWriter™ Posts for the Week Ending 1/25/13

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Here they are, the most viewed TVWriter™ posts for the week ending Friday, January 25th:

Peer Production: Purveyors to Czars read article

Want to Read the Most Highly Praised Screenplays of 2012?

Yeah, us too. So we’re really excited that Rich Drees of FilmBuffOnline.Com has put together a list, complete with links. And, yeppers, we’re stealing the links:

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Middle Of Nowhere read article

And Now, the WGA’s New Year’s Message

munchman Watches ADVENTURE TIME

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by munchman

For those who have lives, ADVENTURE TIME is the latest very hip and very trendy hipsters-love-it cartoon on Cartoon Network. It’s created by a guy name Pendleton Ward and has made him immeasurably famous to an equally immeasurable number of young adults who, you know, have never seen a good cartoon and wouldn’t know it even if they did.

I watched a lifetime’s worth of ADVENTURE TIME last night. Which is to say that it felt like a lifetime but its real time added up to about 10 mind-and-body-numbing minutes. Which, I suppose, is moderately better than excruciating minutes, but still… read article