…Where my daughter and husband got married, an occasion since which they’ve been living happily ever after, so of course we have to show you the Puppet’s pics:
After London, Alisa and I traveled to Edinburgh, Scotland. It’s one of the most beautiful cities in the Universe! I almost lost track of the TARDIS there because they still have blue police boxes on the street in Old Town. It was so quaint.
TVWriter™ is proud to give this congratulatory shout-out to Ryan Harris, whose teleplays, THE GLADES: A PURPOSE-DRIVEN LIFE and JUSTIFIED: DARKNESS ON THE EDGE OF TOWN came in 1st and 3rd, respectively, in the Action/Drama/Dramedy Division of the 2011 Spec Scriptacular. We’ve just learned that Ryan is a staff writer on NBC’s new drama, CHICAGO FIRE, which debuts tonight, October 10th, at 10 PM (9 PM Central).
Big congrats, Ryan. Take a bow!
Most gratifying for all of us here were these Very Important Words from Ryan:
…And then there was the young actress who was so dumb (how dumb was she?) she screwed a writer.
These stats must be correct; they’re from the Futon Critic. (A site everybody who loves TV should know.)
The 10 Things You Need to Know About the New Season, Part 10: History Is on the Side of the Majority of This Fall’s New Shows – by Brian Ford Sullivan
1) Only 32% of broadcast network shows make it to a second season.
2) Shows that premiere in September have the best chance of survival.
3) Scripted and unscripted shows fail at the same rate.
4) Friday night is indeed the “death slot.”
5) 10 o’clock is just as successful as any other time period.
6) 5% of shows that are announced don’t even air.
7) 4% of broadcast series have changed networks.
8) New shows on average lose 14% of their audience by episode two.
9) Cable dramas are almost twice as likely to return as broadcast ones.
10) History is on the side of the majority of this fall’s new shows.Welcome once again to “The 10 Things You Need to Know About the New Season,” our recurring feature about, well… the 10 things you need to know about the new season. The goal of this venture is to address not only common questions people have about television but to also demystify (or potentially reaffirm) stigmas out there about certain networks, time periods, genres and so forth. It’s been a few years so we’ll revisit some of our previous research as well as dig into some new areas we haven’t touched on before.
We think this is so freaking cool:
Inside Chris Ware’s Graphic-Novel-in-a-Box – by Kat Ward
“It’s got a certain degree of chutzpah and pretension to it,” says cartoonist Chris Ware of his latest work, Building Stories, a complex, multipart graphic novel whose contents fill an entire box and wind their way through fourteen different elements, including pamphlets, mini-comics, magazines, newspapers, and a Little Golden Book. “The whole book is supposed to be a dream object,” explains Ware. “I wanted the box to be a beautiful thing and to have that promise to it that a gift has on Christmas morning.”