Yes, it’s true. Writers are geeks. (If we weren’t, wouldn’t we, um, maybe get laid now and then?) And this definitely is the trivia highlight of the TVWriter™ Gang O’Geeks so far this week:
Which Character Was Created Because Of Nintendo’s Inability To License Popeye? (How-To Geek)
…And puts women showrunners in the front lines so everybody knows the ladies are being exploited at the same time they’re being dissed getting a fair shake after all.
14 Women are in The Hollywood Reporter’s Top 50 Showrunners of 2012 – by Kerensa Cadenas (Hollywood Reporter)
The Hollywood Reporter recently named their Top 50 Showrunners of 2012 for both comedy and drama. 14 of the 50 showrunners named were women. And women made up 4 of the 11 on the Showrunners to Watch list. Despite the recent and continuing frustrating news regarding women in television, I’m hoping that the recentinflux of women-created television news continues to up these numbers.
Fairfax, one of Australia’s largest media companies, says it is.
And inasmuch as they’re Big Dogs in the country that gave us WILFRED, we’re all ears:
Show Doing Well on BitTorrent? We’ll Buy It, Says Media Giant – by Ernesto
Fairfax’s head of video Ricky Sutton has admitted that his company’s acquisition strategy is in large part based on what content is popular on BitTorrent. Not only is Fairfax using BitTorrent as a market research tool, the company also admits to advertising their content offerings directly on BitTorrent sites, in an attempt to convert pirates into paying customers.
Definitely worth reading:
The TV Industry’s New Rorschach Test – by Tony Cardinale (HuffingtonPost.Com)
A YouTube cooking show has just been picked up for network syndication. Ratings for the Summer Olympics surged, driven by an unprecedented amount of streaming content online. Last month, for the first time ever, not one single Best Drama Emmy nominee came from a broadcast network. The first week of the broadcast season was its lowest-rated in history[1], while on cable Here Comes Honey Boo Boo drew nearly three million viewers[2]. Oh, how the TV landscape is changing!
Today’s picture of consumers and their new entertainment behaviors is a Rorschach test of sorts. And as someone who likes to look at the glass as half full, we see opportunity in that illustration — the future is bright; but there are others who see disaster ahead.
The most helpful post of the month so far:
Science fiction is the literature of big ideas — so coming up with an amazing story idea often feels like the biggest stumbling block in the way of your dreams of authorship. Unfortunately, most of us can’t just have Robert A. Heinlein mail us $100 and a couple dozen brilliant ideas. So what do you do?