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Originally posted by Alexander's Horse
He probably didn't like Apocalypse Now either

Wonderful wonderful film. Coppola at the height of his (admittedly self-indulgent, but this time it worked for the cause) powers.

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Originally posted by Jon Miller
is finbar a playwright??

Jon Miller

I write for television. Too lazy to venture into the film world. Though I'm due to start developing a feature next month.

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Originally posted by SuperSneak
Jon--no, Finbar writes for children's television. He's responsible for the Teletubbies.

Currently he's working on a show tentatively called: Mr. Sphincter's Amazingly Retentive Kingdom of Correction and Minutiae.

Funny you should mention children's television, Sneak. I've just been landed with the task of writing 2 eps of a new children's series. The target audience is 8-11 year olds. My least favourite specimens in the entire universe.

[SuperSneak]

Well, you just had a couple over to dinner...just focus on their eating proclivities. Oh, and kids love stuff about belching and farting.

[Jon Miller]

I was never a big fan of belching and farting

Jon Miller

[Jon Miller]

Originally posted by finbar


Funny you should mention children's television, Sneak. I've just been landed with the task of writing 2 eps of a new children's series. The target audience is 8-11 year olds. My least favourite specimens in the entire universe.

so you write stuff that you hate??

that explains the poor TV fair nowadays

the writers just do not love their audiences

Jon Miller

[SuperSneak]

Yes, but you're a rather serious lad.

I can't wait to hear the sound of Finbar's teeth gnashing from a world away as he delves into the wacky world of anthropomorphism!

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Originally posted by SuperSneak
Well, you just had a couple over to dinner...just focus on their eating proclivities. Oh, and kids love stuff about belching and farting.

There are already two kids' series here with those functions as the mainstay. I imagine they wouldn't get a guernsey in the States except on cable.

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Originally posted by Jon Miller
I was never a big fan of belching and farting

For which we - and your nearest and dearest - are eternally grateful.

[Jon Miller]

I am not that much younger than you SS.

Jon Miller

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Originally posted by Jon Miller

so you write stuff that you hate??

that explains the poor TV fair nowadays

the writers just do not love their audiences

No, I don't write stuff that I hate. Life's too short. That I don't much like children is a different thing altogether. It precludes pandering to them - writing down to them and patronising them - which is the most common fault with children's writing. Stretching and challenging them is the go.

[SuperSneak]

Yeah...put lots of your big words in the dialogue. I'm sure if you drone on and on about grammar and who penned what song, you'll have a huge hit on your hands.

[Alexander's Horse]

I suspect 8-11 year olds are into sex and shooting up these days.

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Originally posted by SuperSneak
Yeah...put lots of your big words in the dialogue. I'm sure if you drone on and on about grammar and who penned what song, you'll have a huge hit on your hands.

At least we'd have a generation of kids whose priorities are worthwhile. Unlike this current crop of do-gooding, tree-hugging, whale-saving, illiterate little twayts who think to parse is to give up their turn on a Nintendo game.

[Jon Miller]

yes, so do I

Jon Miller