Click bait

Is the purpose of a late night talk to get ratings or merely to serve as click bait? Is the real objective now the number of online viewings for various segments? Get enough eyeballs and you can sponsor the clips. Les Moonves of CBS, at a recent...

Happy Birthday to my hero

If you’ll indulge me, I’m going to devote today’s post to wishing my father, Cliff the happiest of birthdays. Since he’s not on Facebook he won’t receive the flood of birthday greetings that everyone receives so he’ll have to make do celebrating old...

The 20th Century lot... back in the 20th Century

One of the many perks of writing MASH in the late ‘70s was going to work every day at the 20th Century Fox lot. At that time it was Disneyland for TV geeks. We worked in the Old Writers Building, which was a Swiss chalet. I was told our office was...

My favorite scripts

Here’s one of those Friday Questions that became an entire post. Once I start writing about myself things naturally just get lengthy.David (not Isaacs) asks:What do you feel is the best stuff you've ever written or been apart of? Produced or otherwise....

Jewish New Year Jingle

In honor of the Jewish New Year, here is an actual radio jingle KMPC Los Angeles had made for the occasion.  These are the Anita Kerr Singers.  I'm sure they got a lot of play out of it....

More great unsold pilots

Here are more great unsold pilots. Yesterday I also had a bunch.   From the unsold pilot book by Lee Goldberg.  You can find it here.  Remember, these are all for real. TAKE ME TO YOUR LEADER    ABC-1964 -- Two aliens from...