Been watching Aaron Sorkin's latest, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, and after a rocky start it's been getting pretty damn good. But as I'm far from the first to point out, the sketches are uniformly terrible. Weirdly, the show itself is often laugh-out-loud funny ('I'm eating for two'/'at least!') but as soon as the show-within-a-show starts I lose ( Read more... )

A friend of mine co-wrote the pilot of Sarah Jane with Russell - as you do. Anyway, he told me when he got the commission, he really wished he could go back to his teenage self and tell him that in twenty years time he'd be writing episode two of K9 And Company.

Which got me thinking

A) No, I've not been condemned to spend the rest of my existence ( Read more... )

Can't say I've been watching or indeed enjoying Torchwood very much, but I'm fascinated by its (I can only hope) unintentional subtext. From the few episodes I've seen, we have:

1. Date rape is fine, as long as you use alien rohypnol. And play it for laughs.

2. When people get turned into half-robotic killers through no fault of their own, it's OK to ( Read more... )

So...I've been hired to do a kids' adaptation of The Three Musketeers and I'm really wishing I'd actually re-read the book before agreeing to it ( Read more... )

Well, this is weird. Writing something that no one will read for a site that no one yet knows exists. It's very Zen. If Zen were an excercise in monumental futility ( Read more... )