How to Handle Your Critics

We know, we know. Many of you are at that place where all you want is to be public enough for critics to attack your work like sharks devouring chum.

But once you get over it, here’s what you need to know:

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THE NEWSROOM: A Minority Report

by Larry Brody

Once upon a time there was a new series called THE NEWSROOM. Its reviews were so terrible that even I had trouble making myself watch it.

All the BigMedia critics panned it. read article

Rasslin’ with Opportunity

Not our metaphor, honest.

And, frankly, there’s not much new in this article by Keith Fenimore on TheWrap.Com. But its message is still valid, and the newer you are to showbiz (or any biz, really), the more likely that you may have missed it. So:

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Dan sees THE HOBBIT trailer…

by Dan D

…And is giddy — GIDDY!! I tell you — with excitement.

A few things:

I saw this at The Grove theater in L.A., and the quality of the full theater image is simply breathtaking. Word is it was filmed at 60fps and scaled down to 48fps — it seems normal humans can’t even process 60fps. read article

Dan D. Sees NEWSROOM

Time now for the pithy sayings of Dan D., TVWriter™’s very own millionaire playboy software superhero, now living in L.A. because – you guessed it – he’s a hell of a writer as well.

This is Aaron Sorkin’s third attempt at a TV show about a TV show.

First, there was SPORTS NIGHT. read article