by Larry Brody
Hot Tip #27: Never let anything interfere with your work:
LB: Concentration – The Secret of Writerly Success
Tag: TVWriter™
munchman: M. Night Shyamalan Bringing His Patented Incoherence to TV
And Marti Noxon’s going to fix it! (We hope.)
M. Night Shyamalan Jumping Into Scripted TV With Syfy Project (Exclusive) – by Philiana NG
Syfy is getting into business with feature filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan.
Whew! We’re Safe!
Not that TVWriter™ has ever done anything like this…that we know of:
Embed All the Pirated Video You Want Because It’s Totally Legal – by Adrian Covert
A few months back, porn studio Flava Works and the MPAA launched a legal campaign against site myVidster to outlaw the embedding of videos that weren’t uploaded with the permission of the copyright holders. Specifically Hypothetically, you could be punished for posting an old N*Sync video to you blog that wasn’t uploaded by Vevo (or whoever). Thankfully the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals struck that case down.
Shawn Ryan Speaks About his Latest Soon-to-be Failure
Well, going by his track record. Sure, THE SHIELD was hot. But TERRIERS? And THE CHICAGO CODE? (Although CODE did bring a heterosexual Jennifer Beale to us and that’s a major plus.)
Shawn Ryan Talks LAST RESORT, the New ABC Drama Series Centering on a Rogue U.S. Submarine Crew -by Christina Radish
The new ABC drama series Last Resort, premiering on September 27th, tells a suspenseful, emotional and action-packed story about what happens when a U.S. submarine crew receives an order to fire nuclear weapons at a foreign country, and then ignores that order.
munchman: THE BRADY BUNCH is Rebooting.
Further proof that Vince Vaughn is as dumb as he looks (and that CBS development execs are even dumber):
CBS Developing ‘Brady Bunch’ Reboot With Vince Vaughn – by Lesley Goldberg
The network has given a script commitment to a reboot of The Brady Bunch from executive producer Vince Vaughn and CBS Television Studios, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.