Tom and Rachanee take a writer’s high-level look at the 2019 pilot season to see how diversity is doing, what’s trending, what’s not, and what’s new again.
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Session #93 – Should you write a reboot?
With studios more risk adverse to original ideas and seemingly rebooting anything under the sun, should you write a reboot?
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Session #87 – Jump the Shark
It’s not everyday that a TV show makes it to four seasons, let alone seven, or 10, or even, as record holder The Simpsons currently stands, 30. In this session, we discuss what makes a show go the distance. Why doesn’t it “jump the shark”?
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Session #72 – Interview with Writer/Producer Steve Spalding
We welcome Steve Spalding to our group session this week. Steve is a writer and producer from Florida whose TV pilot, “The Many Lives of Ann Winters,” was one of five winning pilots in the Playstation Emerging Filmmaker Program
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Session #59 – In Other News
Catch up with your writing therapists Rachanee and Tom as they discuss the latest news in the industry of which writers should be aware as well as from their own adventures in Hollywood.
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Session #57 – The Rise of Subscription Movies & TV
First it was Netflix, Hulu and Amazon. Then the TV and cable netowrks – HBO Now, Starz and CBS All Access. Then came MoviePass (R.I.P.), Sinemia and AMC’s A-List. DC Universe just launched and soon Apple and Disney will be OTT subscription services themselves. It seems EVERYONE is going to a subscription model. We discuss how the evolving film and TV markets effect writers in today’s session.
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Session #47 – San Diego Comic-Con Wrap-up
Did you get your nerd on for Comic-Con? We just spent a few days in San Diego at the Comic-Con watching great short films at the film festival and going to panels and in general just enjoying all the geek culture we could. We’ll tell you what we saw and learned in this week’s session.
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Session #46 – Remaking Nostalgia Television
Everything old is new again…on TV! In the past year, and into the Fall season, reboots of “Magnum PI,” “Charmed,” “Murphy Brown,” “Lost in Space” and many others will hit flat screens everywhere. In this week’s session, we take a writer’s perspective on remaking nostalgic TV classics.
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Session #30 – Serialized vs. Procedural
Is your script serialized or procedural? What? It’s a sitcom! Since when are sitcom’s categorized as either of those? We debate how you categorize your work, whatever genre, in this week’s session of Writers Group Therapy.
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Session #10 – Creating a Show Bible
We discuss the how, what, when, where, and why of creating a show bible.
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