So just saw "Gem" - yet another good episode and I did a double take when Almost Human was mentioned causing me to spend the rest of that scene looking for demons from Buffy and Angel. Without rewatching I think I saw the Beast, one of the Scourge, Skip and something that may or may not have been Spike's head.
Web seems determined to keep Rebecca from forgetting her past and I guess that'll be coming to a head next week although my biggest question about the finale revolves around the logistics of how an 800lbs guy lures his victims to him.
Final thought: Keith Szarabajka and children does not seem to be a good combination.
bitmetv.org now has 12 eps of
The Inside
to
ahem
Anyone want to invite me, so I can ahem?
I´m aheming on mininova as I write this .... and I so wished I could have spec´d this show. *shakes fist against Fox*
I second that emotion. It would have an awesome show to spec. I wanted to do the (inevitable) Protected Witness is a Serial Killer episode.
I think Drive will probably be difficult to spec, in the same way that Lost, 24 and Desperate Housewives are difficult to spec.
What would you spec for a show like Drive? It seems impossible to pick something similar enough in style to be able to prove you can write for it.
I would suppose that you would spec something more character based. Though I'm trying to think of anything on the air now that isn't a procedural but isn't highly serialized, and that people would be familiar with, and I'm coming up short. (Yes, I watch a lot of procedurals.) Maybe a Deadwood?
ETA: I know people have specced DH, Lost and 24. I just don't know of anyone who's had much success doing it.
EATA: Or, you know, just write the one-hour I Love Lucy...in which Lucy has an abortion...and it lives.
Do you have to write spec scripts for scripted shows, seeing as how the script itself isn't generally intended to be shot? From the description I'm wondering if writing out a fictional Worst Day Ever for The Amazing Race contestants might not get something of the necessary feel.
Matt, do you subscribe to Jane Espenson's blog through your live journal (or otherwise). She's been talking a lot about spec scripts.
Website with blog: [link]
User info page for the feed to LJ: [link]
Do you have to write spec scripts for scripted shows, seeing as how the script itself isn't generally intended to be shot?
Generally speaking, yes. (Though there are some people now who only want to read pilots or features and don't care about specs for existing shows.) Specs are writing samples designed to demonstrate that a) you know how to tell a story and b) you can mimic someone else's voice.
