dunno about you guys but as a woman, I’m feeling preeeeetty good about the fact that we’re clearly immune to mental illness. must be why conservatives are always like, “we need a woman president, they’re the most stable!!!”
We are devastated to not be with our incredible crew and cast right now, but there was no other option here. Writing happens at every stage of the process - production and post included. It’s what makes shows and movies good. It’s what makes them possible.
#wgastrong
EXCLUSIVE: Filming on Season 3 of HBO Max/Universal TV hit comedy series Hacks, starring Jean Smart and Hannah Einbinder, has been halted, Deadline has learned. According to sources, production will be on pause for the duration of the work stoppage
just imagine if we could go back in time and tell our younger selves that as adults we get to stay up as late we want and eat whatever we want for dinner and be sad deep in our bones!
The WGA proposed that TV shows should hire a minimum of six to 12 writers, but some writers disagree.
“Nobody asked for this,” said one prominent showrunner. “Every showrunner I know is against this. It doesn’t make sense to anybody.”
tonight the last episode i ever wrote of
#TheGoodPlace
is on. of course TV is written by a team but having my name associated with this show in any way has been a great privilege & i will always be sad i don’t have another chance to hand in a way too long script to
@KenTremendous
sometimes things you forgot reenter your memory, like how my mom once told me her 1st date with my dad was a double date where, when they got to the theater, my dad said he’d already seen the movie so he went & saw another movie ALONE. anyway now that one’s you guys’ problem, cya
LA FOLKS -- have you done this yet? I'm hearing their voicemails are full so all you need to do is email demanding they call an emergency meeting. It will take you less than 5 minutes. Please.
HEY LA:
The LA city budget is due tomorrow (6/1). $3 billion -- a full 54% -- of the budget is going to LAPD. We've seen the cops the past two days. They have enough money. Call and email council members and implore they have an emergency meeting to redistribute.
today my dad called me to tell me where they’re burying my mom’s ashes tomorrow & then proceeded to congratulate me on the new show he saw I’m working on called “Victory.” i am not working on a new show & can find no evidence of such show existing. absolute whirlwind of a call!!!
omicron is obviously very scary but i simply will NOT allow it to destroy my family’s longstanding holiday tradition (watching Kevin Spacey’s unhinged YouTube video the second it is released)
all i need from the new Fiona Apple album is that it heals all my wounds from pre-covid time and also all of the world's current trauma both metaphorically but also practically i.e. listening to it mass produces a vaccine and passes universal healthcare. k good luck girl
Tonight is the series finale of
#TheGoodPlace
. Thank you to everyone who watched & supported this show, & thank you to everyone who made it. Lots more I could say, but I’ll just leave you with my favorite photo I took during 4 years of our writers room. I’m stopping now, Mike!
Writers’ Assistants and Script Coordinators are the backbone of every writers room. It is immoral to ask them to do the incredibly difficult work that allows massively profitable TV shows to exist without paying them a living wage. I support
#IALivingWage
#IASolidarity
the entertainment industry is cool cuz everyday you hear a story and you’re like “wow that’s fuckin’ crazy” and then the person it’s about goes on to suffer absolutely no consequences for said crazy behavior, yes this is a subtweet but of literally 40 thousand people
Actually, the perfect episode of TV only exists in the writer’s mind. We labor to get it on the page, struggle to transcribe it from our imagination — but it’s a fool’s errand. And yet, we try again, and again, because we love our craft.
jk fuck that it’s the Cheers pilot
hello, episodes 3 and 4 of HACKS are now available to you on
@hbomax
. if you’re craving more of the incredible
@KaitlinOlson
+ corgis, I think you will be very happy.
#HacksOnHBOMax
if you went to Grey Dog Coffee in NYC from the years 2008 to 2010 and ordered an iced cappuccino i apologize but i never foamed the milk, i just poured it in. otherwise i was perfect and you were lucky to have me.
Sitting in my favorite coffee shop and noticed the board with the names of all the people who’ve worked there. Figured there had to be some notable names. There you go…
our new show HACKS is out today on
@hbomax
. i was very lucky to work with an incredible cast and crew and network and oh yeah, my favorite people and creators in the world,
@paulwdowns
and
@LuciaAniello
. i hope you’ll watch!
before he was president of Ukraine, Zelensky was... a TV actor who played a high school teacher who ended up being president of Ukraine? mmm, yes, excellent, that’ll work for 2019, The Year When Everything Is As Stupid As Possible.
the episode where Monica and Rachel fight over the last condom in the apartment...... why do they keep condoms in the communal bathroom? and you live in nyc why can’t you just run down to the bodega? also NO i didn’t tweet about the coup, YES i am tweeting about this
asked my husband “did you know Elizabeth Smart was on the Masked Singer?” and he just nodded and said “i think it was the Masked Dancer”
k feels like we disagree on the interesting part of the sentence here
the final two episodes of
#HacksOnHBOMax
are out now! a special shout out to
@arielkarlin
who co-wrote the finale and did an incredible job. thanks to everyone who watched and these guys will see you next season!
The writing on this show was so good and funny that it was inspiring — a Happy Endings spec got me staffed on my first half hour. The very talented people quoted here do a great job explaining why a writers room being given time, resources, and creative freedom is so crucial.
feels important to say that tonight’s
#TheGoodPlace
was written by
@DaveKingThing
, who is an excellent person and writer and once tweeted a complaint to OSHA when
@KenTremendous
wouldn’t let him bring his dog to work
Two new episodes of
#HacksOnHBOMax
are up now! they feature some Papa Gino’s/Bertucci’s talk for my Massachusetts people and some Marvel talk for “literally everyone.”
Presidential adviser Sean Hannity: "I'd like to see the perimeter of every school in America surrounded, secured by retired police ... have one armed guard on every floor of every school, all over every mall, the perimeter and inside every hall of every mall."
this boy has worn this tag for years. other pups mocked him, called him names, said Taylor Swift had more banners than his team. today, he is vindicated.
There’s a chance there would not have even been a question on climate change tonight w/o
@JayInslee
pushing the most aggressive policy on it out of any candidate.I’d like to see climate change remain a MAJOR part of the discussion so give to him if you can
What’s happening in Alabama is misogynist backwards bullshit. If you are able to give,
@NARAL
is partnering with
@YellowFund
to help women in Alabama still safely access abortion services.
This frequent billionaires attack deserves some scrutiny. A billionaire, like anyone else, can only donate $2800 to a campaign. So 60 billionaires equals $168,000. Add spouses and it’s $336,000. That’s .5% of what Biden has raised. Hardly qualifies as “funding” Biden’s campaign.
Writer and
#PayUpHollywood
creator
@LizAlps
says bosses are "proud of the war stories they have when they were a starving assistant sharing a one bedroom with three other people... to me that’s such privileged bulls–t"
I was a fan of Lynn Shelton’s, then was lucky enough to work a few days with her. I have a vivid memory of someone pitching a joke & her big, lovely laugh that echoed across the set. It was emblematic of the humanity she infused into all her work. Watch her films if you haven’t.
Man, tough to pick a favorite
#TheGoodPlace
memory, but personally, "when I was on it" is right near the top. A lifelong dream to fire
@KristenBell
, and thanks to
@jenstatsky
for giving my character the greatest name ever.
this is all happening because of a phone call between two television stars who became world leaders with no previous political experience whatsoever, and i, for one, will be leaving this earth!!!! 🙃
My friend’s student was shot in his Brooklyn neighborhood while getting a haircut for his 5th grade graduation. He faces a long road to recovery and so if you have anything to give, please do. ❤️❤️❤️
one of the cooler things happening right now is the false narrative that current WGA leadership is not negotiating with agents. if true, then where are the agreements reached with mid-tier agencies coming from?
David Benioff, Greg Berlanti, Steve Levitan and Ava DuVernay among 300 writers endorsing Phyllis Nagy for new WGA president and return to negotiations with agents.