We’re very deep into 3rd episode planning and writing, so the blog gets sent to the high meadow for summer grazing.   I did discover a little 18th century television you might like while you’re waiting for more Courage.  It’s called Garrow’s Law and it tells the “true story [of] William Garrow, who acted as […]

We put out the word on pre-production for our first episode 3 meeting yesterday, and the Hawk’s Head Tavern was nearly full of the Colony Bay crew, anxious to weigh in on the next episode, “A Snake in the Garden.” I don’t believe in writing by committee, but one of the most gratifying things about […]

Stories are potentially dangerous, at least the wrong ones. A lot of parents lament profanity, sex, and violence in modern entertainment, but those, as I’ve lamented recently, are all found even in the Bible — in a context that explains their place.  How do you tell the story of Jesus without cutting off the centurion’s […]

Careful out there in the middle.. I remember enough about mathematics and physics to know that you can be solving for both sides of a complicated equation only to find yourself, miserably, winding down to the painfully obvious.  You see it a few steps before the eraser reveals it on paper: a=a. I’m not sure if […]

I’ve been re-watching HBO’s John Adams, along with the “making of” bonus material, and while it is true enough that I would be happy with just their wig budget, let alone their green screen and CGI budget, I can’t help but comment about the choices they made in their interpretation of the facts. (This is […]

There’s a “metric” out there I wish I knew but can’t seem to find on Google, perhaps because television production companies keep it a secret, but I guess I would call it the “delayed admission” revenue arc of a show. For example, the first season of the Andy Griffith Show, shot in 1960, can be […]

The year 2012, for me, if all goes well, will be something like the year 1771 for Silas Rhodes and his trusty band of freedom fighters.   For those of you who know how cranky and dismissive I am about most modern media, I guess I have a surprising admission to make:  there’s a lot […]

A Quick Look at “America, the Story of Us” During that strange break in the Christmas season when you pretty much know that no one is returning phone calls, or email, and everyone has reconciled themselves to picking black olives out of the appetizer trays and coasting their way towards the celebration, we fired up “America, […]

The other night we tooled around Riverside’s Mission Inn for a dose of Christmas lights and Christmas Crowd and Christmas feasting.   Fortunately, the new Air Jordan was not on sale anywhere nearby, so we had a relatively safe evening.    I say “relatively safe,” because there’s something about shepherding 25-30 people (friends and friends’ […]