On Sun, Nov 29, 2015 at 4:26 PM, Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote: > Can I ask, however, if we can again have some cowboy/western genre > saturation please? I thought "Deadwood" would spark things, but aside from > "Hell on Wheels" and some of the most yawn-inducing miniseries (looking at > you, "Hatfields & McCoys"), it didn't lead to any sort of resurgence.
Oddly enough, I met a screenwriter last week who specializes in westerns. He was bemoaning the lack of westerns. He wrote a screenplay set in Nevada and had a meeting with Warner Bros executives in 2010 to get it made but it never went anywhere. He said he writes a screenplay a month, but he has nothing listed on IMDB. He said the last TV script he sold was to "Night Court." He mentioned something I didn't know. It's written into actors' contracts that they get a certain number of minutes per show and it's up to the screenwriter to make sure that happens. He said bailiff Bull was guaranteed three quips per show, for instance. He said the cast was very nice. -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
