Seth Godin writes about the evolution of every medium.
Technicians who invented it, run it
Technicians with taste, leverage it
Artists take over from the technicians
MBAs take over from the artists
Bureaucrats drive the medium to banality
Maybe in Canada we should amend it slightly:
Technicians who invented it, run it
Technicians with taste, leverage it
Artists take over from the technicians
Governments take […]
Technology has affected writers in the last 10 years. In my last post, I talked about viewing habits. Today, I’m going to look at some of the other digital developments and how they affected us.
Blogs
Although blogs have been around since the mid-90s, free blogging services that made it possible for anyone to blog easily arrived […]
Blood Ties aired in Canada at long last: mystery, monsters and one very hot vampire who appears shirtless a lot of the time. Excellent.
Blood Price, the pilot episode written by series creator Peter Mohan, is actually two one-hour episodes even though they aired together on Monday night. I know it’s two one-hours because […]
Perhaps I have sufficiently conveyed to you my admiration of Jekyll. Now down to business:
The pilot episode, written by Steven Moffat, is laid out in a teaser and four acts and as Anonymous pointed out, it’s the pilot for a short-lived miniseries and not for an ongoing series. For that reason it’s quite […]
I’m in possession of a second episode of Jekyll. I haven’t watched it yet. I’m going to save a few and them binge. Don’t you find tv is better that way? You immerse yourself in a show.
I don’t want to watch tv the way they dole it out: in weekly installment. […]
Jaime J Weinman, in his blog TV Guidance, recently discussed what I’m doing here and then dove-tailed into a broader discussion of “premise” or “setup” pilot versus the “typical episode” premise. He makes good arguments on both sides from a viewer’s perspective.
But if you’re a Canadian screenwriter trying to get a show on the […]
