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TV Surf Report: Women Characters Rule Development Season
Santa Monica, CA — (Update, Dec. 20, 2015) — Female Characters drive Television as evidenced by Super Girl on CBS, Quantico on ABC, Blindspot on NBC, and Empire on Fox, to name a few. Critics are calling Netflix’s Jessica Jones … Continue reading
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Tagged Felicity Huffman, Female Leads, Jada Pinkett-Smith, Scripts, Television
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TV Surf Report: When In Doubt, Nets Order Scripts For Pre-Sold Titles … 28+ Of Them! Movies, Movies, Movies!
(Updated 27 January 2017) Santa Monica, CA — Television loves Movies. Part of a development executive’s job is to cull from a studio’s library those titles of films that could be re-developed as a television series (presumably, for their … Continue reading
TV Surf Report: Networks Rely On Re-Boots To Get Noticed In Increasingly Crowded Marketplace
Santa Monica, CA — (Update 15 January 2015) In today’s crowded television landscape, when there is more content than ever, one way to stand out is re-booting a beloved series hoping audiences will come clambering for something familiar. … Continue reading
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Tagged Gilmore Girls, Lost In Space, ReBoots, Star Trek, Television, Xena
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TV Surf Report: The Clunkers! Original Ideas In Development That Make One Say “They Bought THAT?!!”
Santa Monica, CA — Sometimes, I wonder why and how in the world did a network/digitial platform buy that? The pitch must have been fantastic “in the room.” Or, the auspices were just too good to pass up. Sometimes, … Continue reading
TV Surf Report: Original Ideas Eke Through Season of Re-Boots, Re-Makes & Adaptations
Santa Monica, CA — Original Ideas can still work their way through Hollywood’s obstacle course of making of Television: Nuns! Caesar! A Young Pope! Indian Rappers! Alien Congressmen! Heroic Gamers! Kung Fu! Alien Abductees! Historical Fantasy! Dark Comedy! Period … Continue reading
TV Surf Report: Orders for Adaptations Continue Hot Trend This Script Development Season
(Updated 04 April 2016) Santa Monica, CA — Hollywood loves a good book, a hot play, re-boot, re-make, dark comic, hit song, magazine article, standup comedy routine, web series , and music video. It’s not that Tinseltown doesn’t love original stories anymore, it’s … Continue reading
TV Surf Report: Hollywood Loves A Good Bio Pic…
Santa Monica, CA — Hollywood loves a good Bio Pic, so be prepared for the onslaught heading your way over the next year as there are lots on tap: Anita Hill! The Pope! Teddy Roosevelt! Glo Steinem! Not surprisingly, … Continue reading
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Tagged Anita Hill, Bio Pic, Biographies, Teddy Roosevelt, Television
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TV Surf Report: Great Minds Think Alike As Networks Order Competing Scripts for Fashion Houses, Pot Shops, Atlanta, Billie Jean Vs. Bobby, The Madoffs, Bourbon, Fantasy Islands, Powerless Superheroes, and Women With Cancer
(Updated 02 February 2016) Santa Monica, CA — Good ideas are often shared by more than one person at the same time, so it’s not surprising when Buyers (i.e., Networks) purchase very similar or exactly the same concepts from … Continue reading
TV Surf Report: Fair To Good Conditions With Lots of Trends To Watch Like Adaptations And Super Heroes
Santa Monica, CA — (Updated 15 January 2015) The Fall Television Season has just premiered, but networks and digital platforms are already buying new shows and ordering scripts to keep the production machine going. Two Major Trends are emerging thus … Continue reading
TV Surf Report: The Curious Case of XENA: WARRIOR PRINCESS & Whether To Re-Boot, Re-Cast, Re-Write
(Updated 02 January 2016; Originally Published 05 August 2015) Santa Monica, CA — Lucy Lawless has made headlines speaking to rumors of a possible re-boot of her iconic role, XENA: WARRIOR PRINCESS, at struggling NBC. Lawless originated the role … Continue reading
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