More "Drive" casting news. Two guys you probably don't know, but you sure will -- Andres Saenz-Hudson and Shahine Ezell. They're now brothers. Guess you'll just have to stick around.
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[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls and The Inside), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
They're now brothers.
Did they do some weird DNA-sharing thing?
They're now brothers.
You have the power to do that? It's sort of a reverse Tower of Babel thing -- instead of dividing people, you make them related. Cool.
Shut up.
You shut up.
Children! Don't make me turn this thread around!
I can, and I will!
Remember that exchange between Allyson and Kristen. Should come clear in several months.
TAUNTERS!
The lot of you.
Ahem.
Tim, if you're still hanging, will you please explain the difference between the "written by" and "teleplay" credits for TV?
(Or, did Jackal and I basically understand them? We had the discussion just above the first post you made, today.)
Teleplay by is a credit when the credit is split between more than one person. For instance, on the last episode of "The Inside," I got "story by" credit and Jane Espenson got "written by." If one writer came up with the story, or wrote the outline, and another writer expanded it into the screenplay, it would be broken up this way.
These things are often not as definitive as all that, though. In other words, a staff might break an episode as a group. The show runner may be the driving force behind the story break, but generally she or he won't take a "story by" credit. Generally it's just credited to the writer "whose episode that is."
Another example would be if a non staff person came in and pitched an idea -- like Bob Hamer, our FBI consultant on "The Inside" did for the episode "Gem" -- and if I buy a pitch, I might want to assign it to a writer on my staff. We might take a big or a small portion of that pitch, or even end up with a script that doesn't resemble the pitch, but the freelancer would get a "story by" credit all the same.