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Last night showed what hot showrunners Joss Whedon and Lorne Richards did on their WGA strike-ations. Today comes another story about using your time as a hot commodity wisely — from an interview Aaron Sorkin on GQ’s blog, via Nikke Finke’s “Deadline Hollywood Daily”.
Sorkin, who actually benefitted from the situation initially as his play “The Farnsworth Invention” previewed on Broadway, said to Finke, “For three and a half weeks I was in the unique position of being on strike and being struck against (by Broadway stagehands) at the same time.”
Once done with that distraction, Sorkin said he attended a …read more

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From Cynthia Littleton’s blog on Variety.com:
It’s not a group therapy session, but a staged reading for “The Good, the Bad and the Unbelievable: Real Life Stories of Online Dating,” a book-in-progress by Robin Mesger, senior veep of the Lippin Group, and Stacey Levin, director of current programming at 20th Century Fox TV.
Mesger and Levin have been pals and professional colleagues for years. “Unbelievable” grew out of a plan for a chapter in a novel on which Mesger was toiling. When Mesger and Levin put their heads together, they realized they had more than a chapter involving online dating; they had …read more

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The man who managed to squeeze a few successful incarnations out of “Law & Order” is may land another show on NBC before long. TV Week is reporting that the Peacock has ordered a Dick Wolf pilot for “Lost and Found“, centered on a character described as “a slightly quirky female homicide detective who uses outside-the-box techniques to identify John and Jane Does”.This is quite different from “Law and Order” et al, where cops-on-the-street were less than half of the show. If anything, it sounds more like an plotline David Simon would be pursuing. Which makes it sound interesting to …read more

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Hart Hanson, Executive Producer for Bones, gave an excellent talk at the Banff World Television Festival in Alberta last week: from how the show was created, to how David Boreanaz was cast (and his initial dislike for Emily Deschanel!), to spoilers for the next season. Not to mention what would have happened to Zack Addy had the full Season 3 aired without the strike interruption.
Hart Hanson, who has been a great supporter for our SearchingBones.com site, talks about the series of decisions that led him to Bones. After a number of unusual decisions in the industry, including quitting a series, …read more

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David Hoselton, Producer & Writer for House (recently promoted from co-producer), appeared at the Banff World Television Festival in Alberta last week to give a speech about the "art of story editing" for the show: from concept to execution, and all the changes along the way.
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David Hoselton gave a play-by-play look at the production of episode 3.18, "Airborne", in which House and Cuddy find themselves on a plane from Singapore amidst a possible epidemic. Throughout the discussion, David tells us many interesting things about working for House, such as the three doctors kept on retainer for the series. …read more

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