Not Inspector Spacetime AKA Not Doctor Who AKA Travis Richey’s First Episode is Up and Running

If you’re a COMMUNITY fan and/or a DOCTOR WHO fan, you’ll love this Travis Richey-created web series startlingly similar to the series within a series on the show. A series within a series that is, itself, startlingly similar to a certain 49+ year old BBC space/time traveling show.

And here’s a little “making of” video to go with the little video above: read article

Fake Copyright Takedown Requests and Us

It happens everyday: Somebody’s intellectual property gets taken down from a site – often YouTube – even though there’s no question that the person who uploaded it is the owner and wants it out there. As creators/users/viewers what can we do to keep the information flow running – without aiding and abetting I.P. “piracy?”

TorrentFreak.Com has some ideas:

Not the original pic for this article. In fact, TVWriter™ “borrowed” it from a fine article on interweb censorship by Erik Kain at Forbes.Com. (Check it out!)

Should Bogus Copyright Takedown Senders Be Punished? – by Ernesto read article

‘Make Those Around You Better’ : Collaborating Effectively

As creators become ever more connected to the people responsible to bringing that work to light – from producers to fans – we must deal head on with the process of collaboration. Every software interface seems designed to put us in communication with our peers and our idols. Even celebrities are jumping on the crowdfunding bandwagon to fund passion projects. There has never been a better time to get a team of people working on your ideas.

Many of us writer-folk tend to shudder away from the idea of collaboration because we want to protect our ideas until the “right person” comes along to lift us from obscurity and place us on the Oscar podium where we belong. And yet there is little evidence to support the notion that great work is made a vacuum. Reading the autobiographies of those who have succeeded in the biz, it’s impossible not to notice the formula:

Meet Someone + Work Together = Meet More People + Work Together + (repeat until sickeningly wealthy and famous). read article

Thinking Man Reviews: Boss – Pilot

By Anthony Medina

**Be aware this review contains spoiler** 

Season 1 Episode 1

“Listen”

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Recent Series Pilot Deals

We saved them up this time for a gangbang clusterfuck one Acme Mountain O’ Writerly Praise:

  • Adam F. Goldberg, creator of BREAKING IN, has a pilot production commitment from ABC for HOW THE F—am I NORMAL?, a sitcom set in the ’80s.
  • Ben Ripley, writer of SOURCE CODE, has a pilot script deal with NBC for VANISHING POINT, a legal drama starring Angela Bassett.Danny Jacobson, co-creator of MAD ABOUT YOU, has a pilot script order from Fox Network for LOVELAND, a sitcom about a Las Vegas wedding chapel.
  • Howard Gordon, co-developer of HOMELAND, is co-writing the pilot, LEGENDS, with Jeffrey Nachmanoff and Mark Bomback for TNT.
  • Shonda Rhimes, creator of GREY’S ANATOMY among others, is co-writing an FBI drama, UNDER THE GUN, with Peter Nowalk for NBC.