Friday Questions for your social distancing pleasure. Unknown starts us off (please leave your NAME):   OK, FQ, why ...

More hilarious and insane sitcom career adventures with writer Billy Van Zandt. Example: Creating, writing, casting, and filming a network p...

At the start of this pandemic (13 weeks ago?   Two years?   It’s hard to keep track.)   the late night talk show hosts w...

Welcome to the second CHEERS Zoom reading!  This is an episode written by me and David Isaacs called "Death Takes a Holiday on Ice....

You may have noticed that the fonts and size of fonts have been a little funky at times lately.     That’s because Blogg...

This is a re-post from eight years ago.  But bad erotic writing never goes out of style.  You'll see what I mean. WARNING: SEXUAL C...

Friday Questions have arrived. Liggie asks: Have you seen any of the Korean baseball games ESPN has been showing as a substitute for ever...

Billy Van Zandt has written on sitcoms for such stars as Bob Newhart, Don Rickles, Martin Lawrence, Richard Lewis, Andrew Dice Clay and many...

Scrolling through upcoming movies I could record and watch during this quarantine siege I noticed that HBO was showing FAME. I always lo...

ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE recently did an article rating all of Tom Hanks' movies from worst to first.  Did you realize he's made 53 ...

Like most people I’m sure, I’m at a complete loss for words.   The events and riots over the last week have been horrifi...

Every so often I’ll read an article or term paper or passage in a book that references a MASH episode my partner and I wrote. The piece i...

Here's a fun video.  First listen to the Partridge Family with the actors singing, notably David Cassidy.  Then the same song after stud...

Last FQ’s in May. Savor them. Brian leads off by asking: How soon before the networks, who are all putting out their own pay-for-stre...

More expert advice in directing from Andy Barnicle.  Dealing with actors, the difference between TV and theatre, blocking, rewriting, lighti...

If you’re a showrunner on a multi-camera show taped before a studio audience, one decision you have to make is whether to allow entranc...

Our granddaughter turns 4 today.  Wish we could be with you and hope next year and all the years after we can celebrate it in person.  Happy...

It always seems weird to me that a festive occasion should be called “Memorial Day.” The purpose of the day is to pay tribute to the me...

This is very cool.  Top TV ratings from 1951-2019.  It's like a horse race.  Watch to see if your favorite show comes up in the backstre...