UK series Grantchester is an example of how important casting is.
Without original star James Norton aka ‘the shirtless vicar’, the series has skidded to an untimely end.
Everything you need to know about the origins of the medium we so love to hate, brought to us by TVWriter™’s masterful television lover, Herbie J Pilato his very self.
Some reports claim television began in 1925.
That’s when John Logie Baird and Charles Francis Jenkins worked independently of one another on both sides of the Atlantic and produced weak and blurry images on a screen no larger than one inch wide. Other documentation said it was 1928, when WGY, Schenectady, began broadcasting three days a week.
The title of this article from IndieWire asks a question that many TV writers, especially writer-producers, are asking these days. Or, as our Beloved Leader, Larry Brody, would say: “Sigh….”
At first it seemed a bit like a mistake that Marvel wasn’t using the world showrunner. Television was a medium that the Marvel Cinematic Universe hadn’t much traversed in and a few growing pains are to be expected. After all, this is the same monolith that made the decision to enter “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier” into Drama Series competition at the Emmys, based on tone and not content, flying in the face of conventional wisdom which sees those determinations made based on the continuing or concluded nature of a narrative.
“[The decision] came about sort of as the series was launching, but it was something we were thinking about even as we were making it — not because we think, ‘Oh my God, it’s so great,’ but because it does feel a bit more dramatic than some of our typical stuff,” Marvel Studios VP of Production & Development and “Falcon and Winter Soldier” executive producer Nate Moore told IndieWire in April. “As this is sort of our first foray into television, even if it’s Disney+, we thought [the category placement] was appropriate for what the show is trying to tackle.”
THE USUAL NOTE FROM LB: From the summer of 2002 to the spring of 2010, Gwen the Beautiful and I were the proud and often exhausted owners of a beautiful Ozarks property we called Cloud Creek Ranch.
In many ways, the ranch was paradise. But it was a paradise with a price that started going up before we even knew it existed. Here’s another Monday musing about our adventure and the lessons we learned.
Oh, and if y’all detect any irony, please believe me when I say it comes straight from the universe and not your kindly Uncle Larry B.
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