Here’s something I find mildly hilarious. Anonymous Content is one of the most prestigious management/production companies in Hollywood...

I finished watching Night Sky on Amazon—the eight-episode first season—and I mean finished. The show was canceled before I even started...

This blog is not planned out. I have a “scratch list” of ideas which I sometimes draw from, sometimes not. I like doing a combination of...

There are some things that you imagine would be cool to do—but you never think you’ll do them. Fly a fighter jet or win an Oscar, things...

New on my screenwriting YouTube show, Lukas and Charlie interview literary manager DAN SECO of Empirical Evidence. A freewheeling talk...

Last week I wrote about recent shows that are so weird and withholding in their story elements, I often find them laborious to watch. I...

Yes, there is a secret to Star Trek, and I’ll tell you! (I first wrote about this at trekmovie in 2015.) Years ago I went to a panel...

Check out this Rolling Stone exposé about the Twitter army that backed Zack Snyder’s P.R. efforts to bully Warner Bros.—and was loaded...

Today would have been my friend Harris Wulfson’s 48th birthday. I’ve written about Harris before...and I don’t have it in me to do a deep...

I just want to say, this is awesome! That’s all!

I watch a lot of television shows. It’s my field and I enjoy it. Lately I have noticed shows that preposterously withhold vital...

First off, thank you to everybody who sent me birthday wishes yesterday, I appreciate it! I am watching Night Sky on Amazon. I’m halfway...

Today is my birthday. Bastille Day! The way social media is nowadays, a lot of my peeps know (and have sent nice words—thanks!). What is...

I love this show! I don’t have anything intelligent to add. I just finished season three and enjoyed every sick, demented minute of it....

British composer Monty Norman has died at the age of 94. There are obituaries all over the place but I would rely on Jon Burlingame’s at...

Above: When we were selling FSM CDs from our Culver City office, before I finally got fed up and sent it all to Screen Archives, we were...

I finally saw Last Night in Soho on HBOMax. I had wanted to see it when it came out late last year, but didn’t want to risk Covid in a...

You can find anything on YouTube nowadays. I mean, frogs eating hamsters, plane crash flight logs, porn stars golfing—you don’t want to...

This is a picture of my stepdad, Herb Putnam, who we lost to pancreatic cancer in 2008. (He sort of looked like Sam Neill.) We miss him...

This week on our YouTube screenwriting show, Charlie Vignola and I interview Paul Zeidman, a writer whose cool blog (offering useful...

My wife and I have been watching Outlander. Entertaining show, Sassenach. We had to activate the captions because of the Scottish...

I cannot tell you how much my brother Tyler and I were into Robotech in the mid- to late 1980s. We were the exact right age to discover...

My earliest screenwriting efforts came at the age of 16–17 when I wrote and submitted spec scripts to Star Trek: The Next Generation. I...

This news is a few weeks old, but the HBOMax sci-fi series Raised by Wolves was canceled after two seasons. This was sad but not...