Tag: TVWriter™

Josh Olson Will Read Your $#@! Script

…For a price, of course. But, no, he’s not anywhere even close to selling out.

Josh Olson – Newbies’ Anti-Christ?

Josh Olson Will Read Your Effing Script — For a Price
by Tony Artega 

One of our all-time most read blog posts ever is screenwriter Josh Olson’s delicious rant, “I Will Not Read Your Fucking Script.”

 The piece has been so popular over the last three years, at this point Josh is probably better known as the “Fucking Script” guy than for being nominated for an Oscar for writing the script for A History of Violence. read article

What Writers Can Learn from Saving Hope (Part II)

Kathy Fuller returns with more about the good that can come from a bad TV show. Talk about an optimist!

by Kathy Fuller

Mistake #2: Don’t just stand there, do something! read article

munchman: Anyone Remember Bob Cringely?

What feels like centuries ago, the Robert X. Cringely byline went with a couple of books/films and many columns in an otherwise obscure IT weekly whose name we forget. Cringely was kind of famous, even though he wasn’t real and  was “played” by several different writers, the best of whom spent much more time talking about Cringely’s supposed relationship with a hot young babe (fun!) than about IT (not fun).

Somewhere along the line there was an intellectual property war over the byline, and the winner has a sometimes interesting blog that we sometimes get something interesting out of. Case in point:

Why YouTube isn’t the future of TV
by Robert X. Cringely 

In a few weeks I’ll be launching a YouTube channel where you’ll be able to see lots of shows readers have been asking about including Startup America and even that lost second season of NerdTV. YouTube, as the largest video streaming service anywhere, is the absolute best place for me. But YouTube isn’t the future of TV. read article

The Rapture Comes to HBO

No, silly, not that kind of rapture. We’re talking the Big One, not what the French refer to as the Little Death.

Damon Lindelof returns to TV to film the Rapture for HBO
by Meredith Woerner 

Damon Lindelof is getting back to his television roots with Tom Perotta’s The Leftovers, a supremely wild novel about what happens to those left behind after the Rapture. The two are currently in talks to adapt this book for an HBO series. read article

It’s the Hulk! On the Toilet! What Else Do You Need?

Destined to be the biggest viral video of the century, if it isn’t already:

Courtesy of The Art of Stodoe

Huh? Oh, you want the video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Tp6beYfqm18 read article