Jennifer Weiner's Blog, page 8
February 3, 2010
A reader writes: what's up with your TV pilot?Short answe...
A reader writes: what's up with your TV pilot?
Short answer: I have no idea!
A few weeks ago ABC picked up a bunch of dramas to shoot as possible shows for next fall. Many of them featured cops, or former cops, or disgraced former cops. My writing partner and I heard nothing about our show, "Jane and Dick," which is a romantic comedy set in a law firm and does not feature cops, either current, former or disgraced.
So we waited. And waited. And waited. Weeks later, we've heard no word from the ne...
Short answer: I have no idea!
A few weeks ago ABC picked up a bunch of dramas to shoot as possible shows for next fall. Many of them featured cops, or former cops, or disgraced former cops. My writing partner and I heard nothing about our show, "Jane and Dick," which is a romantic comedy set in a law firm and does not feature cops, either current, former or disgraced.
So we waited. And waited. And waited. Weeks later, we've heard no word from the ne...
January 27, 2010
Still no news from the network...but the We Want Weiner o...
Still no news from the network...but the We Want Weiner on TV story continues to spread.
Read about efforts to get the pilot I wrote turned into an actual TV show, with actors and commercials and Very Special Episodes, on TheWrap.com, and in Entertainment Weekly's Shelf Life blog.
You can also follow me on Twitter where I'm @jenniferweiner, and learning that the waiting really is the hardest part.
And you can sign the petition to turn my script into TV reality -- but you've done that already, r...
Read about efforts to get the pilot I wrote turned into an actual TV show, with actors and commercials and Very Special Episodes, on TheWrap.com, and in Entertainment Weekly's Shelf Life blog.
You can also follow me on Twitter where I'm @jenniferweiner, and learning that the waiting really is the hardest part.
And you can sign the petition to turn my script into TV reality -- but you've done that already, r...
In the department of no news is good news...It's Wednesda...
In the department of no news is good news...
It's Wednesday afternoon, I'm home with a six-year-old with a stomach virus, and I still haven't heard whether ABC is giving my pilot "Jane and Dick" the green light or the network equivalent of a swirlie. Hope springs eternal, so I'm still hoping.
In the meantime, I just want to thank everyone who signed and spread the word about the petition to get the show picked up. I am so grateful for all the support, the signatures, the good wishes, and the b...
It's Wednesday afternoon, I'm home with a six-year-old with a stomach virus, and I still haven't heard whether ABC is giving my pilot "Jane and Dick" the green light or the network equivalent of a swirlie. Hope springs eternal, so I'm still hoping.
In the meantime, I just want to thank everyone who signed and spread the word about the petition to get the show picked up. I am so grateful for all the support, the signatures, the good wishes, and the b...
January 25, 2010
One more thing...there's now a petition to get my pilot p...
One more thing...there's now a petition to get my pilot picked up! If you want more Weiner on your TV (and really, who wouldn't?), you can go sign it at http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions....
My Mom already did!
Thanks, and shortly we will return to our regularly scheduled programming.
My Mom already did!
Thanks, and shortly we will return to our regularly scheduled programming.
January 22, 2010
So, just because I don't have enough going on, what with ...
So, just because I don't have enough going on, what with the books and the kids and the very slow running, I've been working on TV pilot.
The show is called "Jane and Dick" and it's about a smart, funny female attorney who's turned her father's law firm into a version of career Utopia – an all-female, kid-friendly law firm where the formerly mommy-tracked lawyers can have it all. Jane's life looks perfect: she's engaged to Steve, a handsome doctor, she works with her best friend Ellie, and, wh...
The show is called "Jane and Dick" and it's about a smart, funny female attorney who's turned her father's law firm into a version of career Utopia – an all-female, kid-friendly law firm where the formerly mommy-tracked lawyers can have it all. Jane's life looks perfect: she's engaged to Steve, a handsome doctor, she works with her best friend Ellie, and, wh...
January 13, 2010
Hello and happy New Year!Blogging's going to be light for...
Hello and happy New Year!
Blogging's going to be light for the next little while, as I am working hard to get FLY AWAY HOME in good shape for its summer release. Today I wrote a bad sex scene – or, rather, a scene where people have bad, unsatisfying sex. At one point, there's a description how the man jams his hand inside of woman as if he's trying to extract the last olive from a jar.
I'm proud of that.
Anyhow! If you're bored in the meantime, you can pick up the February issue of In Style maga...
Blogging's going to be light for the next little while, as I am working hard to get FLY AWAY HOME in good shape for its summer release. Today I wrote a bad sex scene – or, rather, a scene where people have bad, unsatisfying sex. At one point, there's a description how the man jams his hand inside of woman as if he's trying to extract the last olive from a jar.
I'm proud of that.
Anyhow! If you're bored in the meantime, you can pick up the February issue of In Style maga...
January 1, 2010
Last week, an editor at the Times wrote and asked for my ...
Last week, an editor at the Times wrote and asked for my New Year's reading resolutions. After I scraped myself off the floor, I submitted about a paragraph's worth of resolutions, which got whittled down to two sentences (with a hyperlink for Gary Shteyngart, and none for me, because, other than the bestseller list, what would they link to? The Times, she does not cover my books).
Here's the in-full, annotated version of what I submitted:
In 2010, I will not reflexively assume that all-male b...
Here's the in-full, annotated version of what I submitted:
In 2010, I will not reflexively assume that all-male b...
December 18, 2009
And guess what else? BEST FRIENDS FOREVER was an answer o...
And guess what else? BEST FRIENDS FOREVER was an answer on Jeopardy! last night.
The best part about this -- I now know which of my friends, friends of friends, friends of Fran, Facebook friends and Twitter followers watch Jeopardy!
It's more than you'd think.
December 15, 2009
Breaking blog silence......to ask this burning question: ...
Breaking blog silence...
...to ask this burning question: What, exactly, is a nightclub hostess?
Is it a waitress? A procurer? A female maitre d'?
Why didn't "nightclub hostess" come up as a possible career option on the test I took in the guidance counselors' office a million years ago?
Yes, in between finishing up the book that will be coming out this summer, and writing a TV pilot about a single lady lawyer who re-meets the love of her life when he comes to work in her law firm, I am fascin...
...to ask this burning question: What, exactly, is a nightclub hostess?
Is it a waitress? A procurer? A female maitre d'?
Why didn't "nightclub hostess" come up as a possible career option on the test I took in the guidance counselors' office a million years ago?
Yes, in between finishing up the book that will be coming out this summer, and writing a TV pilot about a single lady lawyer who re-meets the love of her life when he comes to work in her law firm, I am fascin...
September 30, 2009
Good lord!It's been months -- months! -- since I updated ...
Good lord!
It's been months -- months! -- since I updated here. And this is just going to be a teensy little update, prompted mostly by the fact that I'm pretty sure my Nanna thinks I'm dead.
Which I'm not! I've been keeping up over on Twitter (@jenniferweiner), and on my Facebook fan page, newly revitalized because I maxed out my friend limit on my personal page (so if you're waiting to be approved as a friend, it's not that I don't want you as a friend, it's that Facebook says I can't have yo...
It's been months -- months! -- since I updated here. And this is just going to be a teensy little update, prompted mostly by the fact that I'm pretty sure my Nanna thinks I'm dead.
Which I'm not! I've been keeping up over on Twitter (@jenniferweiner), and on my Facebook fan page, newly revitalized because I maxed out my friend limit on my personal page (so if you're waiting to be approved as a friend, it's not that I don't want you as a friend, it's that Facebook says I can't have yo...
