If you’re interested in film and television, you’ve probably watched a commentary track or two. A commentary track’s where someone involved in the film (usually director, writer or star, but can be anyone) comes along into a recording studio and, usually armed with beer and pretzels, commences to talk over the film as it plays […]

There’s a new show out called Andy Barker PI. It’s a comedy about an accountant turned private eye. Pedigree’s good (Jane Espenson, Conan O’Brien, Andy Richter), and the reviews coming in are strong. So they’ve scheduled it against Grey’s Anatomy and CSI. Good: There’s no comedy in that slot on the other channels. So it […]

A rather fine idea to raise money for Comic Relief, involving the creation of a book from vaguely amusing old blog posts in less than a week. It’s like Victor Frankenstein, only with humour. If you’re from or living in the UK, find out how to recycle your old blog posts for charity here. And […]

Some more show bibles have appeared (or re-appeared in the case of Dark Skies) on the Internet since my original bible round-up, so I thought I’d better let you have a look at them too. The Crow: Stairway to Heaven – Bryce ZabelDark Skies – Bryce Zabel and Brent FriedmanCallan – James Mitchell And if you’d […]

A classic Sherlock Holmes story is taken out back and given a good kicking in the thrilling tale of The Red-Headed League.

…he learned from World of Warcraft. OK, it was just seven things. But they’re useful.

Frankly barking employee orientation video sneaked out of the Universal backlot. Twisted genius from the boys behind South Park. And you know what? It is a scary black tower.

You can see who they are here. As Phill Barron has posted his unsuccessful treatment on the web. I feel duty bound to release my own for your amusement. It should be noted that mine was rejected sooner than Phill’s, who made it to the top ten. Suffice it to say I came out much […]

How happy was I? The script for Heat Vision and Jack, as previously recommended by this site. Also available at The Weekly Script are pilots for Desperate Housewives and Bewitched. And there’s plenty more where they came from. Get reading. This is work, remember?

From The Hollywood Reporter: It seems that MGM is the latest studio to jump into the D2DVD market. Interesting news. And just possibly related to the recent decision to create two Direct to DVD Stargate movies. MGM owns the franchise, whose TV run is now coming to an end after ten years on two networks. […]