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From the cult favorite Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which netted four million viewers per episode, to the summer blockbuster The Avengers, which amassed a box office of $1.5 billion, Joss Whedon has made a name for himself in Hollywood for his penchant for telling meaningful, perso…
"Follows [Whedon's] development from a creative child and teenager who spent years away from his family at an elite English public school, through his early successes--which often turned into frustrating heartbreak in both television (Roseanne) and film (Buffy the Vampire Slayer…
The story of one of the first women television scriptwriters in the United States and how she broke barriers in women's rights to creativity in Hollywood.
The story of one of the first women television scriptwriters in the United States and how she broke barriers in women's rights to creativity in Hollywood.
This hilarious, whip-smart collection of essays from a top writer and producer of Six Feet Under crisscrosses from the highly personal (conflating her own loss of virginity and the Kobe Bryant accusations), to the political (what she has in common with Monica and Chandra), to th…
In 1993, when the hit sitcom Cheers played its final episode, no one mourned its passing more deeply than its co-writer and co-producer Rob Long. With its departure, Rob left the Hollywood heavens for L.A. development hell--a limbo-land reserved for out-of-work writers with cell…
In 1993, when the hit sitcom Cheers played its final episode, no one mourned its passing more deeply than its co-writer and co-producer Rob Long. With its departure, Rob left the Hollywood heavens for L.A. development hell--a limbo-land reserved for out-of-work writers with cell…
"This all-new edition of the best-selling guide The TV Showrunner's Roadmap provides readers with the tools for creating, writing, and managing your own hit streaming series. Combining his 30+ years as a working screenwriter and professor, industry veteran Neil Landau expertly u…
"This all-new edition of the best-selling guide The TV Showrunner's Roadmap provides readers with the tools for creating, writing, and managing your own hit streaming series. Combining his 30+ years as a working screenwriter and professor, industry veteran Neil Landau expertly u…
"This all-new edition of the best-selling guide The TV Showrunner's Roadmap provides readers with the tools for creating, writing, and managing your own hit streaming series. Combining his 30+ years as a working screenwriter and professor, industry veteran Neil Landau expertly u…
In this memoir, Agnes Nixon--the television pioneer who wrote and produced the award-winning soap operas All my children and One life to live--outlines her own dramatic life and how she broke network taboos about controversial issues and began a long line of female showrunners.
Introduction: Naming -- Tanya Barfield -- Jocelyn Bioh -- Sheila Callaghan -- Kristoffer Diaz -- Bash Doran -- Laura Eason -- Madeleine George -- Jason Grote -- Jordan Harrison -- David Henry Hwang -- MJ Kaufman -- Itamar Moses -- Janine Nabers -- Christopher Oscar Peña -- Adam …
"Playwrights on Television features interviews with writers of award-winning stage plays and celebrated television shows reflecting on the successes and challenges of being a playwright in the post-network television era. In these conversations, eighteen dramatists consider thei…
"Playwrights on Television features interviews with writers of award-winning stage plays and celebrated television shows reflecting on the successes and challenges of being a playwright in the post-network television era. In these conversations, eighteen dramatists consider thei…