Twice a year my wife has to go up to Berkeley for an academic conference so we took the opportunity to have a romantic night in Big Sur, vis...

For those of you unable to participate in my Teleseminar last week, good news. I had it recorded and am making it available to download, fr...

Keep your Bogey & Becall, Tracy & Hepburn, Affleck & Lopez. For sheer sexual chemistry, charm, and comic timing there has never...

I wasn’t able to get to all the questions that were submitted to my Teleseminar last Tuesday. So I thought I’d cover some more of them now...

A couple of quick things first: I'm off to the Bay Area for the weekend. Daily posts will continue assuming there is internet access ...

For most new shows this is the toughest week of the year. Week two. The phony network hype begins, already heralding the next big hit of th...

Thanks to all of you who participated in the teleseminar. I hope my answers were as good as your questions. Happy for any feedback in the ...

The baseball playoffs begin Wednesday. Although it will probably be impossible to top the Rockies' win over the Padres to claim the N...

Phil Spector (who just keeps getting better looking with age) made rare recordings that will be heard for the first time. This very cool eve...

Writers are always asking networks what they’re looking for each development season. This is a typical conversation I imagine from last fa...

This is one of those “please indulge me” posts. Like most scriptwriters, I’ve got a drawer full of unproduced screenplays. But now I also ...

I'm trying to see if I can post audio on my blog so I'm throwing something on as a test. Several people have asked what I sounded ...

Eva Nazemson, hosting a Swedish call-in show, throws up live on the air and keeps going. Talk about a trooper. In case you don't spea...

Now that we have a blitz of advertising for the new fall shows, boy are those casts good looking. No one I ever hung out with in high scho...

“Catfight!!!” That’s how NBC should have promo’d THE BIONIC WOMAN premiere. Their target audience must be those two nerds on THE BIG BANG ...

I saw a number of on-air promos for CBS’s Monday night comedy block. Based on the content and what they were clearly selling, I thought bac...

Thanks to everyone who participated in the “ YOU fill-in the punchline ” contest-without-a-prize. Some thoughts about them… But first, my...

Great job on the punchlines from yesterday. Since a number of you only read this blog on the weekdays (translation: goofing off at work... ...

It’s time for the second annual “YOU fill in the punch line” exercise. The NEW YORKER has a contest where readers are invited to submit capt...

How'd you like to turn on the radio one morning and find that John Lennon is the disc jockey? KHJ radio listeners in Los Angeles had ...