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2012 Mid-Season Premiere and Return Schedule
Published on 2012-01-01 16:10:00
JANUARY Sunday, January 1 8:00 Mob Wives (VH1) 9:00 Mama Drama (VH1) 9:00 Rachael vs. Guy Celebrity Cook-Off (Food) 10:00 Angry Boys (HBO) Monday, January 2 8:00 The Bachelor (ABC) 8:00 Antiques Roadshow (PBS) 8:00 Pretty Little Liars (ABC Family) 8:00 How I Met Your Mother (CBS) 8:30 2 Broke Girls (CBS) 9:00 The Lying Game (ABC Family) 9:00 Hoarders (A&E) 9:00 Two and a Half Men (CBS) 9:30 > read more
His Ticket In
Published on 2011-06-09 06:58:00
Jordan Harper is an alumni (alum, alumna? I can never get this) of the Warner Bros. Television Writers’ Workshop (2009). He was staffed on "The Mentalist" through the WB program and is also a short fiction writer. What's all this have to > read more
They Do Run Run
Published on 2011-06-07 20:36:00
The Hollywood Reporter has a series of Emmy Roundtable videos with actors and showrunners. The drama showrunners roundtable features Frank Darabont ("The Walking Dead"), Jason Katims ("Parenthood"), John Wells ("Southland&quo > read more
Summer Season 2011
Published on 2011-06-07 02:16:00
When the idea of a Summer television season was first introduced a few years ago I was less than thrilled. Maybe I was locked into the notion that TV happened from September-May and the Summer was a time to catch up on missed episodes or go see a Blo > read more
Access Granted
Published on 2011-06-05 08:52:00
The 2011 Writer Access Project honorees have been selected and posted on the WGA site along with their scripts. (This year with class photos of the writers as well. Is it just me, or does the blonde in the first pic look like she played a psychic a f > read more
A-Team Leader
Published on 2010-07-10 18:13:00
Those of you who don't know the name Stephen J. Cannell (shame on you) may nevertheless be familiar with his classic end credit vanity card which featured Cannell himself typing on an old typewriter before pulling the page out and tossing it into the > read more
Just the Tip
Published on 2010-06-20 18:40:00
Check out Screenwriting Tips... You Hack. I'd hate to liken the page to Twitter but it's short, quick advice on screenwriting with some bite to it. You can blast through a lot of these. A recent tip that I like: Screenwriting Tip #305 Never settle > read more
Byte Sized Stories
Published on 2010-06-11 22:40:00
In my travels across the web recently I came across Weird Tales Magazine. They have open submissions for their "One-Minute Weird Tales." You can get a taste below and then check the submission guidelines. > read more
Spec ific
Published on 2010-06-07 05:27:00
Those of you interested in writing a "Burn Notice" spec, check out this interview with creator Matt Nix for some insights on the series and its characters. > read more
Summer Season
Published on 2010-06-01 21:46:00
TV, I love you. But won't you give me a little break? Guess not; here are the chock-full Summer offerings from network and cable: MAY 05/19/10 – Wednesday The Good Guys (FOX) – Series Premiere 05/24/10 – Monday The Bachelorette (ABC) – Sea > read more
It’s hard at the to-- in the middle.
Published on 2010-05-16 03:57:00
I wrote before about the WGAW Writer Access Project. It's a diversity program for writers with television staffing experience. The 2010 honorees have been posted. Again writer's spec scripts and original pilots have been uploaded. > read more
Recommended Reading 2
Published on 2010-05-13 00:43:00
Here is the list of books that the CBS Writers Mentoring Program suggest to improve your writing. Writing for Episodic Television From Freelance to Showrunner edited by John Wirth and Jeff Melvoin. Writing the Television Drama Series by Pamela > read more
And now for something completely different
Published on 2010-04-26 03:19:00
Here's a video I found a while back on that ever distracting YouTube that cracked me up. 3979WDSKTSX5 > read more
A Writer Lost
Published on 2010-01-08 17:59:00
With the return of "Lost" for its final season in less than a month, now is the time to look back at its beginnings. Not the pilot script but the script that never made it to air. Before "Lost" was "Lost" it was "N > read more
The Best Movie You Never Read Part 2
Published on 2009-12-29 01:11:00
Continuing the list of screenplays that have been published. (500) Days of Summer by Scott Neustadter Michael H. Weber A Beautiful Mind by Akiva Goldsman A Knight's Tale by Brian Helgeland A Midwinter's Tale by Kenneth Branagh About a Boy by Peter H > read more