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Category Archives: David Milch

Summer Reading

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 […]

Good News

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 […]

Milch Lecture Online

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

John From Cincinnati Part 1

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 […]