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http://heywriterboy.blogspot.com/ - "How come every time the OIL INDUSTRY gets government money, it's a SUBSIDY...but when the ARTS INDUSTRY gets money, it's a HANDOUT?" -RON JAMES, 2009 Geminis
POSTED W/O FURTHER COMMENT -- this is taken from Brendan Kelly 's article in today's VARIETY . (emphasis is mine.) Canadian auds get their say MONTREAL The bitter fight over the future of the TV biz in Canada is set to heat up again this week, with the public poised to weigh in ...
Drama
IF THE CANADIAN NETWORKS manage to survive to 2013, they should be just about caught up enough in their thinking to start trying to engage with viral videos like, oh, other networks are doing in 2009... --for updates and to continue the discussion in comments, please go directly to ...
Other
MANAGED TO SCORE some episodes of the eighth season of SPOOKS , the Brit show that's one of the inspirations for The Border . One of the things you sometimes see on Brit dramas are dodgy American accents. Spooks/MI-5 has had its good and its bad over the years. In the current series ...
Drama
Spooks
The Score
WELL. COLOUR ME SURPRISED. The podcast is now up , for my appearance on CBC Radio 's " Q " yesterday. The discussion starts around 21:30 with an interview with the (surprisingly reasonable) Communications Director from the Parents Television Council , and ...
Comedy
Shameless
APPARENTLY I'LL BE on CBC Radio's Q tomorrow about 10:30 am ET, jawin about whether Tv is getting worse with the potty mouth. My father will be so #@&%ing proud. --for updates and to continue the discussion in comments, please go directly to http://heywriterboy.blogspot.com--
Comedy
Shameless
DRIVING AROUND CENTRAL Florida last week was a bit of an unsettling experience. A few of years ago, everywhere you looked there were blue tarps, and smashed trees, and the occasional FEMA trailer -- legacy of a recent hurricane. This time, the signs pointed to the financial ...
Comedy
WELL, I WENT away wanting to hear from some of the newer voices and we've done that marvellous well. I don't agree with everything they've written, and I chuckle a bit at some of what's NOT said... never mind, the blurt of truth will come with time ... but I want to extend warm thanks to my ...
Other
Well, stick a fork in'er, I'm done. I really want to thank Denis for loaning myself, and a whole bunch of us newbie writers, his podium this week. Denis, I hope you find yourself coming back into the fray a touch more tanned, rested and relaxed than when you left. CRTC-wise... well, in true ...
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Nathan Estabrooks is an Ottawa-based screenwriter, artist and rabble-rouser. Apparently he's also mere moments away from being a Dad. ----- Keep your stick on the ice! Remember that? Whether skating around a rink or chasing an orange ball down a street, it doesn’t matter. We all know what it ...
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Mary Pedersen was pursuing a Masters in Creative Writing when she got her first production job on the Sci-Fi series, Starhunter . Mary sold her first spec script to Starhunter that same season, became Junior Story Editor on the series, and co-wrote a second episode. Her original family drama ...
Comedy
Originally from Vancouver, Peter Rowley got his start writing for the theater while studying at the University of British Columbia. After a narrow escape from law school, Peter submersed himself full time in the film and television world, first by interning with Keatley Entertainment, and then ...
Drama
Jeff Zucker
Larry King
NBC Universal
Elize Morgan is a recent CFC TV grad, and the proud owner of a wandering soapbox that sometimes gets the best of her. Elize also grew up on Canadian television that was not the Littlest Hobo – though she's sure the pup doesn't have fleas anymore – and thinks it's time to bring it back. ----- ...
Comedy
The Game
Uh... what? Could you say that again? (actually, he did, again... today at the ACTRA presentation!) If there's anything that can be hinted at as a 'win' out of these CRTC hearings it's that quote right there. A simple thing, something said almost as an aside. But out of the mouth of Chairman Von ...
Other
Born in Missouri, emerging Canadian writer Richard Baldwin won the Langston Hughes Award for Creative Writing (Poetry) in 1998 and published "Along an Edge" in The Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association's Star*Line magazine (Jan/Feb 2007). Richard is currently developing STUFFED!, an ...
Comedy
Don't know if you've seen the trailer for this show yet, but yeah... wow, it's earned my eyes for the pilot and an episode or two. --for updates and to continue the discussion in comments, please go directly to http://heywriterboy.blogspot.com--
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is next Tuesday, December 1st. So... yeah, just a reminder to grab your nomination/entry forms while you can. Best of luck to all who're being nominated! --for updates and to continue the discussion in comments, please go directly to http://heywriterboy.blogspot.com--
Reality
The Best Of
Stephanie Law is an emerging screenwriter & playwright whose play CANCER & CARNIVORES, won York University’s President’s Creative Writing Prize in Playwriting. A second play, GIRLS OF KENSINGTON, was featured at the Factory Theatre’s CrossCurrents Festival in 2006. She is a former member ...
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One thing I've realized, after having watched a week's worth of the CRTC hearings in action, is that there really seems to be no definitive 'answer'. No one solution that'll make everyone happy. Truth be told, if there's one thing I've become certain of it's that whatever the outcome, it'll be ...
Comedy
Make 'Em Laugh
Hey folks! I'm Brandon Laraby and Denis has entrusted me with the keys to this place for the week. Now, I know it's not my soapbox (man, this things got stairs and everything) but I promise I'll love it like my own. That said, for those (most) who don't know me, I run a lil' blog over yonder ...
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IN NOVEMBER 2007, the WGC held a rally in solidarity to support the members of the Writers Guild of America, who had just gone on strike mainly over the issue of payments and residuals in new media. The strike was still bitter and new, and tangentially related to Canada. Whatever ...
