As a writer and producer who has toiled in television for many years, I offer this inside look at the medium some have called the “vast wasteland.” But many a wasteland encompasses areas of great beauty, and as I press my remote I see channel after channel of potential.
Whether you’re a working TV writer, aspiring to be a working TV writer, or the all important TV viewer, take a look around. Better writing means better TV, and the more we all learn, the better television will be!
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TV will never be more than it is now as long as there are commercials for SOAP SUDS, BAD FOODS, and more STUPID TV SHOWS. America not only feeds on “DUMB-DOWN” we reward it. Were the shows better in my ancient day? No…there were just fewer T-V’s. gs
Which is why cable nets like HBO and Showtime win all the awards these days. No interruptions. (And commercials only for…themselves.)
You’ve NAILED IT, LB! By the way — What’ve you been up to all these years? Doing any writer? gs