Bob Goodman and Drew Greenberg join David Simkins in this edition to discuss writing for Deep Space Nine, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Smallville, Dexter, Batman Beyond, The Zeta Project, Warners Bros. Animation (to name a few endeavors). Oh, and we’re currently writing for SyFy’s Warehouse 13 (shameless plug: catch the premiere on July 7th, 2009 on SyFy).
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Jennifer Yale is off to a fast start. Her first job in Hollywood was working for Mel Brooks helping to shape the filmed remake of The Producers and the musical of Young Frankenstein. Along the way she’s won an Emmy, pitched pilots, written screenplays, been on the team for the TV shows Day Break and Dexter and broken new ground on webisode stories for CBS’s Harper’s Island. Oh, and she almost died at 16. After that, the rest is easy. Listen in. It’s a good one.
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Let Del Reisman take you back to the Golden Age of Television. When he was a kid hanging out on the Universal backlot, or later in the midst of 35 missions as a bombardier flying over Germany during WWII, Del had no idea he’d wind up smack in the middle of one of the most creatively fervent periods in the history of American Broadcasting. When TV drama was in its infancy and young men like John Frankenheimer, Franklin Schaffner and Paddy Chayefsky were telling the country all about itself with live television productions, Del was there. He was also there with Rod Serling when a little CBS show called The Twilight Zone hit the airwaves and changed television forever. Listen in.
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Trey Callaway sits down with David to talk about creating a sci fi series for UPN, working with Tim Burton and the Rubik’s Cube of writing and producing for CSI: New York.
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Lee Goldberg’s resumé reads like a TV what’s-what for the last twenty years. His television creations are legion not only in the U.S. but he’s dabbled a bit in Europe as well. And if that’s not enough, he’s also a published novelist. Next up: splitting the atom. Listen in.
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Joe Dougherty is a playwright, novelist, director and Emmy Award winning writer for television. Currently penning plots and dialog for Holly Hunter on SAVING GRACE, he took some time out from his big deal successful writing career to talk with us pikers. Listen in and get your Joe on.
Joe Dougherty links: corporate HQ, original fiction, radio drama, his novel, another novel and radio scripts.
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Saul Rubinek chats it up with David Simkins on the set of WAREHOUSE 13, a pilot for the Sci Fi Channel shooting in Toronto during June, 2008.
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PS: The episode of Ray Bradbury Theater we discussed is “Gotcha”.
Neil Johnson is the writer, producer, director behind a slew of homegrown science fiction films and countless rock videos. Determined to make films his own way he found himself in unlikely company when his tradition-breaking foray into digital moviemaking attracted the attention of George Lucas. George, just about to break ground on THE PHANTOM MENACE, had a few questions about how (digital) movies get made. You can check out Neil’s site here.
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Daniel Myrick, co-director of THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT, and Jackson Douglas, one of the stars and directors of the hit tv series THE GILMORE GIRLS, are the guests this week on The Zicree Simkins Podcast. Join us in the airlock for a discussion about the art of starting with nothing to create something phenomenal. Check out THE OBJECTIVE online at objectivemovie.com.
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