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Bill Kuchman @billkuchman.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

“Netflix’s competitors have been turning away from the binge-drop model in favor of more or less weekly schedules, because they’ve realized — or relearned — that the time when a show’s not on the air is as important to building its audience as the time when viewers are actually watching.”

slate.com

Watching TV Used to Feel Like Hanging With Your Friends. Then Something Happened That Changed Everything.

Something disturbing is happening to the streaming giant’s ratings. It has only itself to blame.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 15/07/2026

Please avoid all salads, including word.

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Exfoliate the timeline with this absolutely incandescent performance from Raye and co. at Montreux a couple of nights ago.

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RAYE & Guests - live at Montreux Jazz Festival 2026 - ARTE Concert

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Jason Rabinowitz @airlineflyer.net · 05/07/2026

A $3 @mta.info subway fare and some good Q train timing can buy you one hell of a view of the July 4th fireworks and the Brooklyn Bridge light show! Huge shoutout to the train operator for slow rolling over the Manhattan Bridge and the conductor for announcing it.

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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

We pack a handful of folks into a tin can loaded with explosives. The computers are running Windows and the toilet is malfunctioning. We hurl them at a distant rock. Everything about where they are is deadly. And it is sublimely beautiful, one of the greatest things we’ve done as a species. #Artemis

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Lauren Conoscenti @lconoscenti.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Never not immeasurably delighted by a TARDIS in the wild…

A blue police box materializes in Los Angeles, CA. Note: May be bigger on the inside.

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Lauren Conoscenti @lconoscenti.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

My favorite days in California are when the light is warm and the air is still cool. Neighborhood ravens parry clicks and gronks, a tandem glide. The sun sets like the release of a hug, both too soon and exactly on time to see the smile in the eyes of the night.

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EZRA 🗝 ROSE @sheydgarden.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

i know i've been pretty quiet but here's the result of my January: a totally handmade, fully-functional marionette created for a local winter-themed puppet show. she's called the Winter Maw & she'll eat you alive, just like real winter

a handmade marionette monster photographed in front of a snowbank. it has long arms with branch-like hands, a long neck with a false human face & a lower jaw like a sperm whale, & is dressed in all white/off-white lace & rags with pearl accents. watermark says "Ezra Rose"

a close up of the face of the marionette with its open jaw & teeth visible below.

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Gemma Arrowsmith @mmaarrow.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Television is 100 years old today! 🎉

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jorgecoolreyes.bsky.social @jorgecoolreyes.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Been saying this. A reminder and a warning for those of us who work in—and love—television. From Ted Linhart:

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Lauren Conoscenti @lconoscenti.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

NYC’s Moondance Diner. Wrote this in 2018. ☕️

Lauren chats with Sunny at the counter inside the Moondance Diner. Still photograph shot on film.

An Instagram caption reads:

Sunny Sharma was one of my first “true New Yorker” buds during my freshman year at NYU. I’d seen the Moondance Diner in Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man and thought it was a beyond cool location. I started going on my own, sitting at the counter, carving a spot in a city that was now my home. Then I brought friends. I became a regular. My greasy spoon. I remember the coffee—with just a pinch of cinnamon—that he’d have ready for me before the door could jingle shut. We took a small crew there for a student project—when this photo was taken—and Sunny told us stories over burgers and fries. About the Holland Tunnel crowds. About the quirky charm of the building itself. About how he stayed open to hand out food to volunteers and service folks in the weeks after 9/11. Sunny and Moondance aren’t there anymore—kicked out for a luxury hotel—but I think of him often, his kingdom in a train car on Sixth Ave, his generosity of spirit. And sometimes, I add a pinch of cinnamon to my coffee.

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Jane Espenson @janeespenson.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

I'm on a podcast! Brilliant poet @anthonyetherin.bsky.social and I talk the TV biz and I rant a bit! Is it informed ranting? SOMETIMES!

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

the good that you do persists in this world

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Lauren Conoscenti @lconoscenti.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Jumbo thanks to Dana Fox for sending over a copy! Congrats @johnaugust.bsky.social @clmazin.bsky.social & the rest of the #Scriptnotes team 📖🎉 P.S. This is the stocking stuffer your writer pals want this year… #scriptsky

The (very!) orange SCRIPTNOTES book rests on a wooden surface. There’s a typewriter on the cover. White text reads: JOHN AUGUST CRAIG MAZIN SCRIPTNOTES A Book About Screenwriting and Things That Are Interesting to Screenwriters

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Phillip Iscove @pmiscove.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Yes! Remember when we used to make heartfelt, progressive, smart TV with lots of episodes filled with characters we loved and wanted to hang out with every week that gave us hope for the future and didn’t bum us the fuck out?? Turns out people like that!

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Joe Adalian @tvmojoe.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

I read some coverage of Content London this week that mentioned buyers wanting "returnable" TV. It was a fancy way of saying they wanted... weekly TV shows with weekly plots. Hope!

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Caroline Litman @alicemydaughter.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Didn’t know I needed to see a giant, demonic hare parading down a wet and windy Irish street, to restore my faith in humanity, but there you go.

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Abigail Larson @abigaillarson.com · 27/10/2025

Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."

Guillermo del Toro quote "...think about wealth for me for example. A wealthy man that has enough..."

"not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite somebody to beer..."

"...you're rich. If you have, whatever-"

"- yachts and planes and islands and you STILL need more? You're not rich."

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erika @yeeeerika.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

this headline hums with ancient autumnal dread

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headline: no one knows how big pumpkins can get
sub head: a decade ago, the worlds heaviest pumpkin weighed 2,000 pounds. now the 3,000 pound mark is within sight
by yasmin tayag

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ʟᴇɢꜱ ʙᴇɴᴇᴅɪᴄᴛ ✨ @maybecam.blacksky.app · 23/08/2025

everybody come watch this with no background noise. brain reset.

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John Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

There’s a bonded pair of coyotes that live in Central Park and cause they like to hang out at the Delacorte Theater when it’s not in use they’re called Romeo and Juliet

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Maggie Levin Derrickson @maggielevin.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

It's been a serious privilege to help curate this year's Women's List. The final list is an extraordinarily diverse range of stories worthy of the big (and small) screen.

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Lauren Conoscenti @lconoscenti.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

See also: writing. (Evidently, sea also.)

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Lauren Conoscenti @lconoscenti.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

My action/adventure pilot KIANA THE BANDIT OF PANGA ⚔️ has landed on @thewomenslist.bsky.social in great company (hi, several writer pals! congrats!). “They are stories we want to see, stories we think the world will want to see.” How lovely! www.thewomenslist.org #scriptsky

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Steve Barr @barrsteve.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

The final emotion of your movie is the most important emotion of your movie. (a thread) #scriptsky #filmsky

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Lauren Conoscenti @lconoscenti.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

The gargoyles at Sturgis Academy are always watching… They’re pretty stoked about this SF placement. Thanks heaps, @roadmapwriters.com! (“GARGOYLE HIGH” // 1-hr drama)

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Had to clamber over a barbed wire fence, rip my coat and trespass to get a photo of this folkloric monster pretending half-successfully to be a tree. I have no regrets.

A Cornish tree - possibly an ent - with legs, arms and an unusually large bellybutton.

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Alan Sepinwall @sepinwall.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

When I argued for longer TV seasons, it was primarily about the creative advantage of spending more time with characters, and having room to experiment. But it's also clearly something the audience wants, and the business finally seems to be recognizing this, as per @snoodit.bsky.social's article.

rollingstone.com

TV Seasons Have Gotten Shorter. That Doesn't Mean They're Better

The trend toward short seasons of television is robbing us of some of the joys of watching our favorite shows, says TV critic Alan Sepinwall

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Ghouly Hoye 👻🇨🇦 @hollyhoye.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Sometimes there’s too much going on in the world and you need to look at a large ridiculous bird for a minute. shoebill (Balaeniceps rex)

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Lauren Conoscenti @lconoscenti.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Drew is the best! I learned so much from him in our Fantasy Island room. In lieu of island magic, let’s do TV community magic. Please see the link below to donate.

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Nicked an Artery Ranadive @nrdiva.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

All leaders take note. Lead in a way that makes people want to do things like this for you. 🥰

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 25/03/2025

Not to pile on, but every 'c' in 'Pacific Ocean' is pronounced differently.

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danielle weisberg @danielleweisberg.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Hey real quick everyone go on the Griffith observatory’s YouTube and you can watch the eclipse set to very nice classical music and every so often someone from the observatory narrates what’s happening

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Laura Eek!! Hall @lauraehall.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Really enjoying this classic Sesame Street segment, two minutes of freestyle jazz riffing on saxophone factory footage

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Alissa Walker @awalkerinla.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Air quality update: AQMD has completed its mobile monitoring survey in and around the Palisades, after completing the Altadena survey the week before. Results show no elevated levels of: - Air toxic metals including lead and arsenic - VOCs including benzene Details: aqmd.gov/2025-wildfire-response

Figure 1. Map shows concentrations of Lead (Pb) measured on January 31,
2025. Results were well below the federal standard for this pollutant (150 ng/m3)

Figure 3. Map shows concentrations of Benzene measured on January 31, 2025. Results were well below the state’s
short-term (1-hour) health threshold for this pollutant (8 ppb). The concentrations of all other VOCs were also within
common background levels and below their corresponding health thresholds.

Figure 5. Map shows concentrations of Lead (Pb) measured on February 10, 2025.
Results were well below the federal standard for this pollutant (150 ng/m3)

Figure 7. Map shows concentrations of Benzene measured on February 10, 2025.
Results were well below the state’s short-term (1-hour) health threshold for this
pollutant (8 ppb). The concentrations of all other VOCs were also within common
background levels and below the corresponding health thresholds.

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javier grillo-marxuach @okbjgm.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

listen up all you #screenwriting #screenwriter who do #tvwriting and want to become a #tvwriter - i have not one but TWO, two new tutorials on writing great action scenes and giving notes! go check ‘em out! okbjgm.weebly.com/essays.html

okbjgm.weebly.com

Essays

Making The Action Count (When You're Writing Action) WIP/BETA Writing an action sequence? Here are my thoughts on why the best action sequences work and some advise on how I design action sequences...

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Promote your book, film, project, game, jewelry, comic, whatever you came up with in your beautiful imagination. I am doubling down on ordering books from the library, watching films/tv, escaping through what artists create. Tell us about it. Promote it without shame. Please. Now more than ever. 💚

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Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium @ptdefiancezoo.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Exciting news! We’re thrilled to announce that tapir Yuna gave birth to a rare and endangered Malayan tapir calf Sunday night. The newborn, covered in distinctive white spots and stripes resembling a fuzzy walking watermelon, is only the second tapir born in our 120-year history.

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Hart Hanson @harthanson.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Watching the FireAid concerts for the LA fires , I was struck by how many Canadians took the stage in support. And I’ll never forget those yellow Canadian Super Scooper planes saving the day.

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