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Milch, Deadwood, Endings

Thursday, November 20, 2008

TV Eye’s Roger Catlin got an advance look at the 19-disc, 36 hour “Deadwood: The Complete Series” that I want for Christmas (hint, hint).  One of the special features has David Milch on the abandoned Deadwood set talking about how he would have ended the series had he had his way.
Endings that supposedly “fixes the […]

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When I’m in My Head, I’m in a Bad Neighborhood

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 […]

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Guns, Drugs, Prostitution, Murder, Deception, Greed…

Friday, October 17, 2008

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 […]

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Summer Reading

Wednesday, July 2, 2008

When I go to the cottage next week, I’m taking Writing the TV Drama Series by screenwriter Pamela Douglas. I bought it on the recommendation of Scott McEwen and even though I haven’t started it yet, I have peeked ahead to her interviews with some of the great showrunners. Douglas calls them guest speakers […]

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Good News

Thursday, January 24, 2008

Everyone’s eulogizing the pilot today. I’m trying not to take the move to eliminate pilots personally. I start a blog to write about pilots and then they decide to stop making them. It’s crazy talk to think there’s a connection. This has nothing to do with karma.
Right?
Let’s focus on the good […]

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Milch Lecture Online

Tuesday, January 8, 2008

Check out the videos of David Milch on “The Idea of the Writer” here.

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John From Cincinnati Part 1

Wednesday, June 13, 2007

I don’t get it. Yet. But I’m willing to invest some time and effort because after all this is David Milch.
Half a dozen scenes into my first viewing of the pilot for John from Cincinnati, written by David Milch and Kem Nunn, I put down my pen and paper and decided to just […]

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