Attn: JMS - The Complete Book of TV Production?

[Mark Nolastname]

Aloha!

I was wondering if there are any plans for a companion tome to The Complete
Book of Screenwriting that would deal with TV Production.

>From a layman's perspective, it would seem that B5 and Crusade would make
very interesting and very different examples.

Mahalo - Mark

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[Jms at B5]

>I was wondering if there are any plans for a companion tome to The Complete
>Book of Screenwriting that would deal with TV Production.
>

I think it would probably be a less viable book in the marketplace since that's
a more specialized audience, so I don't know if I could make a go of it.

jms

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[Dan Dassow]

In article <20000106195221...@ng-bd1.aol.com>,

jms...@aol.com (Jms at B5) wrote:
> >I was wondering if there are any plans for a companion tome to The
Complete
> >Book of Screenwriting that would deal with TV Production.
> >
>
> I think it would probably be a less viable book in the marketplace
since that's
> a more specialized audience, so I don't know if I could make a go of
it.
>
> jms

Joe, you have spent a lot of time on the net illuminating the production
process. If you wrote a book concerning TV Production with a similar
focus, I for one would be willing to buy it.

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[John W. Kennedy]

Mark Nolastname wrote:
>
> Aloha!

>
> I was wondering if there are any plans for a companion tome to The Complete
> Book of Screenwriting that would deal with TV Production.
>

> >From a layman's perspective, it would seem that B5 and Crusade would make
> very interesting and very different examples.

A companion volume as such wouldn't be likely -- Writers Digest
publishes for writers. I believe that JMS did have a notion of a book
somewhat along those lines, because his notes for it ended up on Gold
Channel on http://www.thestation.com -- but, that being the case, I
rather fancy he dropped the idea.

A serious "how-to" book on becoming a TV show runner would, in any case,
be very long and expensive, and would have to be updated every year or
two. I suspect it will be published at about the same time as
"Episcopal Bishoping for Dummies".

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