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Robert Hewitt Wolfe’s Mastertweets on #TVWriting

The awesome Robert Hewitt Wolfe started tweeting out last Sunday a lot of advice for up-and-coming TV writers.
And by a lot of advice, I mean over 55 tweets (so basically 1,500 words).

Liz Thurmond generously compiled this amazing masterclass (or mastertweets) chronologically.
Check it out below, it’s worth the read. Robert Hewitt Wolfe goes into everything from spec scripts and agents to production jobs and professional reputation.

UPDATE: The Storify website is gone, but you can access an archived copy of the tweets at this link: https://web.archive.org/web/20160707102829/storify.com/countmystars/becoming-a-tv-writer/

Some TV staffing season advice from the pros

Scripts & Scribes spoke this week with five working television writers for advice on how to tackle this year’s staffing season. Interviewees include:
– Sleepy Hollow/Nikita‘s Albert Kim
– Undateable‘s Craig Doyle
– Revenge‘s Ted Sullivan
– The Night Shift‘s Tawnya Bhattacharya
– The Newsroom‘s Ian Reichbach

Linked below is all the worthwhile advice, especially when it comes to meetings and specs.

Here’s a taste, with Albert Kim on the subject:

The thing to keep in mind when going into a staffing meeting is to know that the showrunner is looking for a sense of who you are as a person and what you’ll be like in the room. If you’ve managed to get a meeting, that means he or she has already read your stuff and liked it. Now they want to see what the chemistry will be like. They’re putting together a group of people who’ll end up spending an inordinate amount of time together, so they want to make sure everyone will get along. You can’t have people on staff who’ll screw up the creative flow.

Read the full article

How Nielsen Social Is Measuring the Evolution of Social TV

Interesting interview with Nielsen Social’s SVP of Product.

Just a little over a year since Nielsen Social partnered with Twitter to produce the Twitter TV Ratings and to conduct research around the social network’s influence on viewership, the findings show that correlation is, at the very least, still meaningful and actionable for networks and advertisers alike.