Rob Kutner-related stories
Posted Jul 3rd 2008 12:59PM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: OpEd, WGA Strike, Reality-Free
It looks like some of the writers who participated in the
WGA Strike have decided to start their own network. No, it's not a television network.
Strike.tv is slated to begin this summer. It will contain more than 40 short-form programs including comedies, dramas and a game show.
Participating television (and movie) writers include Lester Lewis (
The Office), Rob Kutner (
The Daily Show), Stephen E. de Souza (
Die Hard), Karen Harris (
General Hospital) and Ron Corcillo (
Malcolm in the Middle). Acting talent involved with the programming include Bob Newhart,
Timothy Dalton and Kristen Wiig.
Continue reading Another result of the writers' strike
Posted Sep 7th 2007 6:55PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, OpEd, The Daily Show, NYTVF
The third annual New York Television Festival is now taking place in the Big Apple. As we did last year, we will review each of the pilots in competition there. This is the fourth set of those reviews.When I spoke to Eben Russell, the NYTVF's main spokesperson, about how there seemed to be a lot of comedies this year, he mentioned that they wanted to judge the pilots being sent into the festival on their own merits, instead of shoehorning them into categories, like they did the first two years. "We adopted an approach taking the most outstanding pilots, regarding of genre. We have a large amount of comedies as compared to other genres," is what he told me in an e-mail prior to the festival.
The implication is that the other categories didn't have enough quality entries to justify their own categories. Judging by the uneven quality of the following pilots, it makes me wonder what the pilots that were rejected look like (you can view the pilots
at MSN).
Continue reading NYTVF: Pilot reviews, part four of six
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