Today’s Women Behind the Scenes spotlight is shone on television writer and producer Toni Graphia. She is the daughter of a prominent Louisiana judge, who got her start as part of an apprenticeship program through the Writers Guild of America. In her own words she “went from opening fan mail to selling scripts in just a few years”. She is ... Read More »
Today’s Women Behind the Scenes spotlight is shone on Television producer and writer Jennifer M. Johnson. Jennifer began her career in the entertainment industry by writing for the MTV series Undressed in 1999 before becoming a story editor and writer on the fourth season of Providence in 2001. She returned for the fifth and final season in 2002, writing several ... Read More »
The cast and creative minds of the new FOX drama Alcatraz paid a visit to WonderCon last weekend, filling in the audience – as best they could – on what to expect for the few remaining episodes of the show’s debut season. But first, a clip from the season finale (that will air for two hours tonight) was screened that ... Read More »
This past weekend I had the opportunity to attend WonderCon, the annual pop culture convention, much like the infamous San Diego Comic Con, that is typically held in San Francisco but was transferred to Anaheim this year due to ongoing construction at the convention Center in San Fran. Early Friday morning I got all my “stuff” packed up and headed ... Read More »
As the TV season continues to roll out this year, the following are shows that are returning to the winter line-up, cable shows that will be back with new episodes, new shows that will debut, time slot changes and season finales. Please use the following as a guide for your viewing pleasure for March: March 1 – The new NBC ... Read More »
Now that we have reached February sweeps – the mid-season point for the current TV season – it is time to take a look at how all of the major networks are performing in terms of an overall score rather than a list of the winners and losers for each network. Each score will encompass how well the network has ... Read More »
What can be said about this new TV season? Just like every other TV season, it has had its ups and downs, its successes and failures and its surprises and let-downs. Over the past few months I have spotlighted the winners and losers on the major networks as the season has progressed; and will continue to do so throughout the ... Read More »
At one point in time in the world of television, mid-season was seen as a wasteland for repeats and what would become short-lived TV shows for which the networks had no intentions of continuing beyond the limited amount of episodes that were filmed. But now-a-days, mid-season is the exact opposite: it is a place filled with a multitude of programming ... Read More »
Today’s Women Behind the Scenes spotlight is shone on Writer and Producer Elizabeth “Liz” Sarnoff. Liz got her start as a production secretary for the box office film One Fine Day in 1996 and then worked as an assistant to the co-producer for the 1997 film A Thousand Acres. The following year she worked as an assistant to one of ... Read More »