Well, she doesn’t really call it that ‘cuz she’s a classy lady. Whereas we…hey, you know. Here, from Peggy’s blog, are her thoughts on writing to sell:
Should Writers Write For the Market? – by Peggy Bechko
Yes.
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Job Opportunity of the Day
Found on Twitter, so you know it’s for reals:
Who’s ready to make $100k as an EP? Contact @TV_Agent_Beth or myself ASAP. (Don’t email if you have NO #TVnews experience). Mahalo.
We’d check this out but we have no #TVnews experience other than having our mug shot shown locally back when we…oh, erm, nevermind. Nobody really cares about that, right?
And The Most Profitable 1/2-Hour TV Show in History is…
Yep, it’s SEINFELD!
According to the New York Post, SEINFELD has earned more money since it went off the air than the gross national product of most countries – $2.7 billion.
This particular info, usually top secret, was revealed at an investors’ conference last month, when Time Warner bragged to potential investors that reruns of the series on broadcast TV have grossed $2.3 billion since 1998, with another $380 mil coming in from cable reruns. SEINFELD consists of 180 episodes, so you can figure that each half-hour of the series has made more than $14,000,000 so far.
Without FUTURAMA There’d Be No WRECK-IT RALPH
The good folks at io9 bring us some words from former FUTURAMA and THE SIMPSONS director Rich Moore, whose vision backstops WRECK-IT RALPH.
How Working on Futurama Prepares You to Make One of the Year’s Best Animated Movies
Top TVWriter™ Posts for the Week Ending 11/2
Here they are, the most viewed TVWriter™ posts for the week ending Friday, November 2nd