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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
TV Surf Report: Heroic & Fantastical Television On The Horizon
Santa Monica, CA — As Avengers: Age of Ultron pummels the domestic and international box office (“Hulk: Smash!”), Hollywood television executives are pondering which pilots to order to series. Don’t think for a moment that they won’t be … Continue reading
TV Surf Report: Television Far Friendlier To Women Than Film
Santa Monica, CA — Between Film and Television, one medium is, by far, more friendly to women than the other: Television. As Studios like Disney employ men to write and to direct even the most female-centric stories like Cinderella and Beauty … Continue reading
TV Pilot Season 2015: Networks Re-Boot Old Series As Audiences Give This Season’s New Series The Boot
Santa Monica, CA — I both love and hate the idea of re-booting an old series. It’s a worthy strategy, though, and one the studios and networks pursue annually with a high failure rate. There are lots … Continue reading
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TV Pilot Season 2015: Hollywood Gets Lost in Translation (and sometimes, Translations Get Lost in Hollywood)
Re-purposing series, both scripted and unscripted, from other countries is nothing new in Hollywood, but there is an art to it in order to re-create the success of the original versions. This season, someone’s been hanging out in … Continue reading
TV Pilot Season 2015: 25 Female-Centric Pilots Coming To A Screen Near You (Or Not) — Women Lead The Charge
If all goes well this Spring, next Fall we’re going to be seeing women on the run from drug cartels, a fugitive from Krypton solving crimes, a high school gym teacher freshly out of the closet, and a super … Continue reading
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