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AXE COP is coming to TV

For those who are so damn out of it you inspire nothing but contempt – not any of our TVWriter™ regulars, we’re sure, but those, erm, other guys who sometimes come around – AXE COP is a wild, woolly, fun, in, hip, and trendy online comic strip series, possibly the best one there is, “written,” as the site says, “by a 5 year old and illustrated by his 29 year old brother.” Family dynamics aside, it’s awesome.

AXE COP is also a new cartoon series scheduled to appear on Fox next summer.  Which is why we’re so happy about presenting this first clip we just found. (See, we’re smiling cuz there’s gonna be more. So much MORE!!!) read article

Love & Money Dept – TV Writing Deals for 10/31/12

“Every hugely successful writer I know simply writes what he or she loves…and has been lucky enough to love the same things the audience does.” (LB)
  • Zach Braff (yeah, that Zach Braff) is writing the pilot for the ABC sitcom GARAGE BAR, about a group of friends dealing with the celebrity of one of them, who has become a pop star. (Zach will also direct and serve as E.P. for the series because, hell, he is a pop star of sorts thanks to SCRUBS and GARDEN STATE.))
  • Gideon Yago (THE NEWSROOM) is writing CITY HALL, an ABC drama about a city’s youthful mayor and her staff. (Gideon will also be an E.P. because he may not be a pop star but nevertheless his credentials are impressive: He wrote for CBA and MTV News and was fired from THE NEWSROOM by pop star Aaron Sorkin.)
  • Steve Agee (THE SARAH SILVERMAN PROGRAM) & Rob Schrab (CHILDEN’S HOSPITAL) are writing an “untitled coming-of-age comedy for FX based on Agee’s military school experiences. (No, we don’t usually think of military schools as funny, but the pitch calls this “tonally similar to FREAKS & GEEKS, and a good pitch trumps reality every time.)
  • David Marshall Grant (BROTHERS & SISTERS) & Michael Lannan (REMEMBER ME) are writing an HBO comedy pilot about being gay in San Francisco. (Sorry, folks, no high concept or pop stars here. Move along, move along.)
  • Marco Pennette (ANIMAL PRACTICE) has written the TV Land Pilot GIANT BABY. (Kirstie Alley and Rhea Perlman supply the pop power in this baby. Yeah.)

The Hudsonian Sees ARROW

Arrow Hits a Bullseye – by Joshua Hudson

***The pilot episode originally aired on the CW on October 10, 2012 at 8 p.m. EST. What follows is a love triangle between myself, the CW, and Oliver Queen.***

When a movie based on comic book characters makes $1.5 billion worldwide, everyone wants a piece of the action, right? Especially when you have your own catalog of cool characters, and you have yet to make that much. Being shown up by your competition is never a good thing. read article

Joss Whedon, Mitt Romney, the Zombie Apocalypse…and Us

Finally, somebody who tells it like it is:

Oscar Winner Callie Khouri on H’wood’s Treatment of “Women’s Movies”

Don’t mess with the writer of THELMA AND LOUISE, doods. For any number of very good reasons. (Hey, she created NASHVILLE too.)

Academy Award Winning Writer Callie Khouri Slams Movies About Women As Relegated to Trash Heap – by Melissa Silverstein

Callie Khouri gave the movie business a lot of years of her life.  It’s been an up and down relationship.  The up – winning an Academy Award for writing Thelma and Louise.  The down – wanting to direct and getting pigeon holed into the chick flick box because she had made a movie about women. read article