When we first see the milk sloshing into the pan on the stove and Don all bleary-eyed, we think the baby has been born. But no, Don is caring for his other baby, Betty.
The scene he sees as he stands there is in his imagination. It isn’t a flashback or a memory. This is a […]
Are you excited? Only 9 days left to the launch of season 3 and judging by the number of writers who’ve Mad Men-ized their profile pictures on Facebook and Twitter I’m guessing lots of people are looking forward to August 9. And so in anticipation, I decided to do a little comparison between the pilot […]
The Fourth Independent Television Festival takes play in LA July 31 to August 6. It is billed as the only festival for independently produced pilots in LA:
ITVFest prides itself on being for and about the pilotmakers.
I was lucky enough to get a pre-screening of one of the entries, an energetic comedy with a great little […]
Making pilots is a pretty new craft in Canada. How long have we been making pilots? Three years, maybe. Four? Between the handful each made by CBC, CTV and Global we still don’t have a very big body of work. And the chances to see these pilots are few and far between.
A very few of […]
In November, AMC will air a “reimagined” miniseries called The Prisoner. It is based on the 60s Brit series which starred Patrick MacGoohan and was apparentally created by him as well.
The Premise : A man, known as “Six,” finds himself inexplicably trapped in “The Village” with no memory of how he arrived. As he […]
NEW WEB SERIES TEACHES KIDS COMPUTER SAVVY THEY DON’T LEARN IN SCHOOL
Thirteen-year-old web wizard, Hailey, makes technology cool
TORONTO, March 25, 2009 — Story2.OH and giraffesoft introduce Hailey Hacks, a series of web videos starring Toronto grade 6 student, Marlee Maslove. Hailey (Maslove) is the Hermione Grainger of web wizardry showing 8-13 year olds all kinds […]
A nice example of a video that brings together unlikely collaborators from around the globe to create something lovely.
Stand By Me from David Johnson on Vimeo.
2009 WGC Screenwriting Awards Finalists
ANIMATION
6Teen “Date and Switch”
Written by Robin J. Stein and Alice Prodanou
6Teen “Whoa Baby!”
Written by Alice Prodanou
Ricky Sprocket, Showbiz Boy “The Perfect Family”
Written by Shane Simmons
CHILDREN OR PRESCHOOL
Captain Flamingo “Comic Slip”
Written by Christin Simms
Captain Flamingo “The Gobbler Robbler”
Written by Suzanne Bolch & John May
Future is Wild “Monkey Brains”
Written by Jeremy Winkels
DOCUMENTARY
FLicKeR
Written by […]
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 […]
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 […]
