Conversations with My Agent (and Set Up, Joke, Set Up, Joke)
1st Edition
Published on 3. July 2014
384 pages
978-1-4088-5583-6 (ISBN)
Description
Barely out of film school, Rob Long struck the jackpot and landed a job on the phenomenally successful TV sitcom, Cheers. However, with the demise of the show, Long was faced with the question, 'Is there life after Cheers?' Mercilessly witty about the daunting process of setting up a new series and getting it on air, these two books tell the absurd tale of what came next.
Getting from pitch to pilot is a tricky path to navigate successfully, from making non-negotiable changes and deal-breaking edits, combined with accommodating the whims of studios, networks and agents, often the finished product ends up a long way from where the script-writer started. With the help of his agent, her constant demands, monstrous salesmanship, brutal irony and unswerving loyalty, Long's career fluctuates from wannabe to player, from award-winning script-writer to burnt out has-been.
And it's all, as he says 'half true'.
Getting from pitch to pilot is a tricky path to navigate successfully, from making non-negotiable changes and deal-breaking edits, combined with accommodating the whims of studios, networks and agents, often the finished product ends up a long way from where the script-writer started. With the help of his agent, her constant demands, monstrous salesmanship, brutal irony and unswerving loyalty, Long's career fluctuates from wannabe to player, from award-winning script-writer to burnt out has-been.
And it's all, as he says 'half true'.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
ISBN-13
978-1-4088-5583-6 (9781408855836)
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07/2014
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
€41.03
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Person
Rob Long is a writer and producer in Hollywood. He began his career writing and producing TV's long-running Cheers and served as co-executive producer in its final season. During his time on the series, Cheers received two Emmy Awards, and two Golden Globe awards. Long has been twice nominated for an Emmy Award, and has received a Writers Guild of America award. His current series, Sullivan & Son, appears on TBS. His upcoming series for FX, Death Pact, begins filming in New York in the winter. He is a contributing editor of National Review and writes regularly for Time magazine and The National, Abu Dhabi's English-language daily newspaper. He continues to work in film and television in Los Angeles.
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Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- To the reader
- Contents
- Conversations with My Agent
- Bottoms Up
- Flashback
- Development, Heaven and Hell
- Studio Firepower
- Secret Agent
- Hipe
- Eye Candy
- Testing Times
- Wall Street
- Executive Inaction
- Meet the Press
- Dissolve To
- Set Up, Joke, Set Up, Joke
- The First Meeting, Monday Morning, 10:30 a.m.
- Spring: 'On the Bubble'
- Summer: 'Is There a Show in That?'
- Autumn: 'I Applaud You'
- Another phone call, Monday, 2:36 p.m.
- Winter: 'Happy Holidays'
- A 'Concept Meeting', Tuesday, 2:45 p.m.
- Spring: 'The Middle Distance'
- Meeting in an editing room, Thursday, 12:45 p.m.
- May: 'Rerun'
- A market research testing facility in Burbank, California, Friday, 4:30 p.m.
- Summer: 'Keep it Shut'
- A market research testing facility in Burbank, California, Friday, 5:15 p.m.
- Acknowledgements
- A Note on the Author
- Copyright Page
