Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Like Denis, I was at the Playback Innovation Forum yesterday. Denis has got some valid criticisms of the event in his post, so I’ll go straight to the content.
James Manos Jr.
Bill Brioux interviewed James Manos Jr, who developed Dexter for television but left the series sometimes during the first season. Manos is a bit […]
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
I’m listening to David Milch talking about writing with Bill Kurtis in the Paley Center for Media Studies program called A Conversation with David Milch. It’s from way back in 2004, but still illuminating. Man, can Milch talk. And, man is it interesting.
Here are a few quotes:
The last novel [Herman Melville] wrote sold about seven […]
The Paley Center for Media has a great collection of videos available to be screened on line and the audio of some of the programs is available for download from Audible (for $1.97 each). This week I listened to a program called The Whacked Sopranos. It was a panel discussion with David Chase, Terence Winter […]
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
The story department over at The Latest Buzz survived their live show. Here’s their report on how it went:
What did you guys think of the live episode experience?
Brent: It was one of the greatest nights of my career. It was the best possible outcome.
I started off really nervous because we screened an episode on the […]
I frequently get emails from people looking for specific television scripts. And a lot of readers come to this blog on a google search for a script. I don’t trade in scripts, but there are plenty out there on cyberspace. I can suggest a few places for you to look. If you’re diligent, you will […]
Friend of the blog Will Pascoe recently read an undated draft of the pilot script for Warehouse 13 by Rockne O’Bannon & Jane Espenson. Here are his thoughts:
Despite hearing that Warehouse 13 is an “X-Files” meets “Raiders of the Lost Ark” meets “Moonlighting” premise, the pilot felt more like “Ghostbusters” meets “Relic Hunter” minus Bill […]
There is more to life writing than sex.
Last night, a few lucky Torontoians got to see an advance screening of ZOS: Zone of Separation and chat with showrunner Malcolm MacRury. This is a great show. It’ll air on TMN and Movie Central in January and you will watch it and love it.
Until then, maybe you […]
Take a look at the first ten minutes of Sex Drive, thanks to the miracle of your friend and mine, the Internet. Very funny.
Sex Drive Movie - First 10 minutes of Sex Drive movie (red-band)
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Thanks to the whole cable phenomenon there’s a lot more sex in TV drama than there used to be. There’s a lot of craft to writing a sex scene.
A good sex scene does what any good scene does; it moves the story forward, tells us something about character and resonates with theme.
Like action, violence or […]
Thursday, October 9, 2008
The Latest Buzz is shooting an episode in front of a live studio audience this week. That’s right, they are shooting the show live — in front of people. Let me remind you that the Buzz is a three camera sitcom for tweens and stars a cast that is under the age of […]
