How To Value Television
How do we value television? It depends who you ask. Ask advertisers, and they’ll talk CPMs and ROI. Ask network executives, they’ll talk ratings. Ask
For Antihero Wives, Revenge Means Regret
It’s not new to say Skyler White and Carmela Soprano have a lot in common. They’re both married to two of television’s most renowned antiheroes.
Can The New York Television Festival Get Past the Pilot?
Originally posted on Tubefilter. If you’re an indie TV creator, you should know about the New York Television Festival. There are a lot of festivals for independent
How To (Not) Make It In Hollywood
People don’t care about media workers. They care about stars: star actors, star producers and star directors. If you’re an actor or director and not
Open TV: Rescue Pilots from Development Hell
Originally published in Flow TV journal. Hold your mouse over footnotes (#) for more information. The Avengers, franchise of franchises, has invaded television. Last year
The Summer of Lesbian Web Series
This summer I was on my way to see a friend’s band when Regina Spektor’s voice pierced my ears. It was coming from a ground-floor
People don’t care about media workers. They care about stars: star actors, star producers and star directors. If you’re an actor or director and not a star, it’s easy to feel invisible. Because you are. [...]
Originally posted on Tubefilter. The New York Television Festival‘s annual Digital Day brought together network executives, creators and marketers to take about the state of the industry and offer advice to new entrants. What did [...]
In 2011 New York’s Diana Scholl asked Issa Rae if she was planning to turn her hit web series, The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl, into a full-length TV show. At the time her first [...]
This post refers to a conversation on Henry Jenkins’ blog: part one, two, three, four. My visit to USC earlier this month for a work-in-progress talk on my manuscript sparked a couple of conversations. One [...]
Two weeks ago, Boardwalk Empire ended in the middle of a conversation. It was one of the last episodes of the fourth season of the HBO show set in Prohibition-era Atlantic City. The city’s mob [...]
How do we value television? It depends who you ask. Ask advertisers, and they’ll talk CPMs and ROI. Ask network executives, they’ll talk ratings. Ask fans, they’ll rave about their favorite shows or genres. Ask [...]
I’ve been writing about web video since 2009. I’m part of a tiny group of writers who have sustained interest in web television over the years, taking time to interview producers and write about [...]
It looks like the new television is here: a flexible, open industry more responsive to consumers and producers. Henry Jenkins’ textual poachers have become textual producers. Twenty years ago, audiences struggled to get power in [...]
Ylse is a 2008 sitcom about a modern Americana and the quirky characters around her. It won a 2010 Imagen Award for best Internet sitcom and the audience favorite at the 2009 Rasquache Film Festival. Ylse creator [...]
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