screenwriting

The Entertainment Art Intersection

An eternal debate with artistic media is which is more important: the artistic value or the entertainment value. Rotten Tomatoes offers both sides, giving a critic score alongside an audience score…

TV as Art Highlight: Roots

In 2016, This Is Us debuted, and it was a magical experience, telling the story of a family over several generations. We got attached to the characters as we…

TV as Art Highlight: Mad Men

These TV as Art Highlights will present the most awesome pieces of TV content. These are the ones that go beyond being just mere television and instead are full works of art. I’m starting with what I think is the best TV show of all time, Mad Men

Optimistic Punk -- Creating a hopeful subversion

What do you think of when you hear the word punk? A dude with a mohawk, wearing a Bad Religion T-shirt, stuck somewhere in the 1970s? A straight-edge kid with face piercings? Someone at any age bucking authority…

Why Candie Does TV

I’d like to share something important about Candie TV that I don’t think I’ve shared before, and it has to do with the TV part of it: why are we focusing only on television shows for the time being…

Indie Filmmaking and AI Ethical Dillemas

In the last article, I asked what others thought about the ethics of AI and indie filmmaking, and I received a range of answers—from “anything goes, it’s the wild west” to “ethical AI use is an oxymoron…

The Ethics of AI and Indie Filmmaking

Usually in these posts, I make some statement about writing, or the state of television, or even a ranked list of the hotness of all Disney Princesses. But today…

Join the Candie Collective

We're building big, imaginative, subversive shows on a scrappy, indie budget, like epic fantasies, period pieces, sci-fi stoner comedies, and more. To pull it off, we have to get creative. That means bootstrapping…

ISO Producers

You down to manage a shoot for an original TV show, stretch a budget, flex some creativity, and walk away with cash and ownership? Candie TV’s got you…

Avoid Multiplicity: How do write distinct characters

Michael Keaton is awesome; thus, many of him must be beyond awesome. The movie Multiplicity put this thesis to the test…