Love & Money Dept – TV Writing Deals for 10/16/12

The Beverly Hills are alive with the sound of, “Cha-ching!”
  •  Jeff Lowell (COMMON LAW, JOHN TUCKER MUST DIE) & Emma Koenig are writing a sitcom pilot for NBC based on Koenig’s blog, “F*ck! I’m in My Twenties” (proving that TV executives love titles they can’t put on TV).
  • Kenya Barris (SOUL FOOD, GIRLFRIENDS, THE GAME) is “co-creating” FIVEHEAD, a sitcom for ABC, with Tyra Banks, on whose life the show is based (the fact that Barris is listed as “co-creator” and not “writer” proving that even though this is supposed to be a “scripted” series, Ms. Banks has no idea whatsoever what that means).
  • Joseph McGinty Nichol & Daniel Cerone (creators of SUPERNATURAL, CHUCK, CHARMED, DEXTER)) have sold #RESISTANCE, a series about a kickass woman cop turned vigilantes to CBS (the hashtag proving CBS is much younger/hipper/nerdier than the world previously believed.)
  • NBC is planning a new series, WUNDERLAND, written by Anthony Zuiker (CSI), about a time in the future when Alice has become an evil queen fighting to stop a young rebel from – you guessed it – the other side of the looking glass – from overthrowing her (proving that nobody at NBC knows what Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland was all about. Nor, it would seem, do they care).

Another Top Pro Brings a Project to Kickstarter

The Good News:

After 2 years of trying to find a studio home for it, David Fincher still wants to do a feature film version of The Goon (our roommate’s favorite comic), and he has Eric Powell, the creator of the book, on his side and Paul Giamatti and Clancy Brown as the stars. So, hat firmly in hand, he’s taken to Kickstarter.Com. read article

The Best 4 1/2 Minutes of DOCTOR WHO in 2 YEARS

…Proving beyond the slightest doubt that Chris Chibnall, who has written the best episodes of this season as well as the online prequel (and created BEING HUMAN) should be the next showrunner of DOCTOR WHO.

As of, oh, how about this afternoon?

munchman sees CHICAGO FIRE

Quick Reaction: E.R. with firemen. But my girlfriend, who hates action shows, liked it and even wants to watch it again. (I’m thinking maybe it’s the boots?

Prognosis: For Fire Dept. groupies only. (You know who you are.)

Peggy Bechko: Trying Too Hard


Writing is a tough business and we’re always trying to put our best foot forward, to give our best, to produce our best work, but there is such a thing as trying too hard.

You know it. I know it.

There are few things less impressive than someone trying to be impressive. read article