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Stage 32, Evoke Entertainment Team To Fast-Track Emerging Rom-Com Writers With Contest
Stage 32 is teaming up with Evoke Entertainment to scout the next great romantic-comedy writer with a new screenwriting contest. With the partnership, Stage 32’s global entertainment community platform...
Writers From ‘The Daily Show’, ‘Last Week Tonight’, ‘SNL’ & More Try To Solve A Riddle: Is Donald Trump Actually Funny?
Six nominees for WGA Awards in the Comedy/Variety Series – Talk or Sketch category grappled Wednesday night with one of the great riddles of our age: Is Donald Trump...
‘Pluribus’ Creator Vince Gilligan Says Writers Are ‘Plugging Away’ On Season 2: “It Ain’t Gonna Be ‘The Pitt’ Coming Back Every Year”
While many who have seen Pluribus — Apple TV‘s biggest series to date — are clamoring for what’s next in the chilling utopian saga (especially after that explosive Season...
Shawn Ryan On Why He Did Not Write Script For S3 Of ‘The Night Agent’, “Devastating” Trend Of Writers Not Producing & Pain Of “Buyer’s Market” For Talent
As creator of The Night Agent, Shawn Ryan, who adapted the Netflix series from Matthew Quirk’s novel of the same name, wrote the pilot script, which became the series...
Remembering Harry Haun, Who Chronicled Broadway with Wit and Wonder
Harry Haun spent more than five decades chronicling the theater world with wit, warmth and encyclopedic precision. Photo by Walter McBride/Getty Images When Broadway’s tireless chronicler Harry Haun joined...
‘Pluribus’ Finale: Episode Writers On Carol’s Last-Ditch Effort To “Give In,” The Hive Mind’s “Hideous Violation” & The “Fun” Of Meeting Manousos
Spoiler alert: The following article contains spoilers for the season finale of Pluribus. After traversing approximately 8,000 kilometers — some of it tedious, some of it harrowing — Carlos-Manuel...
Honor Norman Podhoretz, conservative giant, true man of letters — and my dad
My father died Tuesday, Dec. 16, a month shy of his 96th birthday. Norman Podhoretz passed peacefully and without pain, with a new translation of “The Odyssey” on his desk...
Writers’ Guild Of Great Britain, Which Is Chaired By ‘Adolescence’ Co-Creator Jack Thorne, Set To Raise Mega-Merger “Red Flags” With Netflix
The Writers’ Guild of Great Britain (WGGB) plans to raise the “red flags” of the proposed Netflix–Warner Bros. Discovery mega merger head on during a meeting with the streamer...
‘High Potential’ Guest Aiden Turner Teases How Rhys “Makes Morgan Fall In Love” After Writers Extended His Storyline: “I Enjoy Being Eye Candy”
SPOILERS: This post contains details about the High Potential, Season 2 episode ‘The One That Got Away’ Season 2 of ABC‘s High Potential sent audiences into the midseason finale...
From Algorithms to Accessibility: What Writers Can Actually Learn from A.I.
By studying how A.I. organizes information, communicators can create writing that’s clearer, more inclusive and easier for everyone to use. Unsplash+ Large language models have become some of the...
International Affiliation of Writers Guilds To Confront “Cultural Colonialism” At Landmark Indian AGM
EXCLUSIVE: The International Affiliation of Writers Guilds (IAWG)’s AGM next week will address the “cultural colonialism” felt by writers from the Global South, we hear. The IAWG AGM is...
‘Silicon Valley’ Showrunner Calls Out Europe’s Attitude To Showrunners & Says U.S. Studios “Despise” Writers But Respect Their Role – Iberseries
John Altschuler, the co-showrunner of Silicon Valley and King of the Hill, wants Europe to show more respect to writers. The scribe, part of a writing duo with Dave...