#Gwen is very Nancy Drew

[doctorsiren]

I’ve done it again

We were talking about Misty and Gregory (thank you Squib for coming up with the ship name Mistory LMAO it’s perfect) and once again (because I love to design characters) was like “hm what if they had a kid” and then decided that they should have twins because it’s been too long since I’ve decided to design twins :3

So here we have little Gwendolyn and Griffin

Gwen has very little in the way of spirit powers, but she wants to be a paranormal investigator. She will use a magatama like a supernatural magnifying glass (by looking through the hole of it).

Griffin, despite being a dude, has spirit powers (because I said so. He gets to be special hehe).

Just very quick concepts for the silly :>

[rappaccini]

actually i'll do a darius dump. okay so in the gwen stacy miniseries following gwen's life in high school before she ever met peter, we meet her first boyfriend, darius leclerc.

he fits right in with 616 gwen's established type. pre meeting peter, she was interested in all-american footballer guys. and darius is that to a t. he's smart, wealthy, handsome, athletic, and nice. he and gwen are like the alpha couple of their school.

he's like the archie to her betty, or the ned to her nancy drew. they go on study dates and get frisky in the library. she goes to all his games and he helps her run for class president. he, gwen and harry are a trio who solve a mystery together.

they're cute!

.... but. his developer dad gets involved with shady business deals that gwen, darius and harry don't realize their investigation's getting in the middle of.

and then his dad gets killed in a situation that he kinda brought on himself for doing business with the villain of the week, but gwen's also a little bit responsible for meddling with it. and darius breaks up with her over it because he can't mentally separate her from that event. fair.

and then he's never seen or mentioned again!

(.....also it's not lost on me that yet again atsv copped a gwiles dynamic from another ship involving gwen or miles with someone else. in this case it's gwen inadvertently putting her black high school boyfriend's dad in a situation where he's fated to be killed by a supervillain. if it wasn't ripped for atsv by the writers, then it's very, very odd that this exact situation repeated itself.)

[queer-cosette]

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Marinette tells a lie. A pretty big lie. And soon one lie turns into another, and before she knows it, she's going out of her way to keep the lie going. When Lila lies, it's sloppy. But Marinette's lie is all too believable. At least no one else is getting hurt by her lie. But Marinette's about to find out how hard it is to be known as the school slut. An Easy A AU.

(Miraculous Ladybug, Adrien/Marinette)

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today I woke up wanting to kiss you

A few weeks into their relationship, Duncan discovers Courtney’s weakness for having her hair played with. Written for Day 4 of Duncney-cember: Cuddles

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"Well, fuck me gently with a chainsaw! Nancy Drew is onto you, Sunset." Sunset Shimmer wished she was popular, and she became popular - And suddenly she wished she wasn’t popular. When Sunset is faced with a fate seemingly worse than death, mysterious new kid Flash Sentry suggests she take matters into her own hands and use drain cleaner, Ich Lüge bullets, and adult ignorance to make the world a better place. But is his vision of a world without bullies really worth the cost?

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Dear Diary...

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I have two fics for this one - they're both drabbles (exactly 100 words) I wrote for the Miraculous Writers Guild Valentines Event 2022.

to show that you know me is the best gift of all

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drop everything now (meet me in the pouring rain)

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[puzzlebean]

Welcome to my, puzzlebean's, blog. It is a pleasure to have you here. This is a multifandom blog. My fandoms are listed below. I try to tag everything but I may forget to tag sometimes or forget what I tagged something as. Feel free to ask me to tag something specific!

I have many blorbos but Steve Rogers owns my heart and soul. I like art, puzzles, SCI-Fi, comics, movies, books, music, mysteries, racing, and more.

Please don't ask me, or have people ask me, why you are blocked. I block very liberally so I can curate my own space.

This is a list of the fandoms I like and engage with (on different levels).

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This is just a fraction of the things I ship, though I would say these are some of my current main ships. I have a ship list I am working on (I shall link it when it's finally completed). I have ships that are my big loves and ships I find interesting to write. Listed here are some of my loves.

Steve/Bucky • Kirk/Spock • Yelena/Kate • Wednesday/Enid • Ava/Beatrice • Sam/Steve • Alisha/Kiko • Vanessa/Elena • Carol/Maria • Steve/Darcy • Wanda/Vision • Sharon/Natasha • Bruce/Clark • Bruce/Clark/Diana • Tim/Bernard • Rey/Poe/Finn • Joe/Nicky • Gwen/Morgana • Merlin/Arthur • Merlin/Arthur/Gwen • Sharon/Sarah • Bloom/Stella • Amina/Daisy • Hazel/Daisy • Constance/Sophia • Han/Leia • Han/Luke • Jason/Stephanie • Stephanie/Cass • Harley/Ivy • Alex/Miles • Roy/Jamie/Keeley • Ted/Trent • Wanda/Darcy • Steve/Scott • Max/Charles • Max/Lando • Nancy/Robin • Eddie/Chrissy • Steve/Jonathan • Bucky/Tony • Max/Lewis

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Last updated: October 25th, 2023

[ronoken]

The Case of the Shattered Window

My youngest daughter was reading some old Encyclopedia Brown books and liked them, but wanted some geared towards girls.

That’s fair. Nancy Drew didn’t hit with her, and also that’s, like, the only girl detective series we could find. I’m sure there’s more. I would hope there’s more.

So, I’ve been working on something in my spare time. I have several done, but here’s the first.

The Case of the Shattered Window

 Nothing much happened in the small town of Billsburg. At least, that’s what the adults would tell you. From the outside, the town seemed completely ordinary. From the hot summers filled with the sounds of children playing in the streets outside and splashing down at the public pool, to the chilly, snow-filled winters that blanketed the roads and cancelled school, Billsburg seemed like the most unimportant, mundane little burg that anyone could ask for.

The children of Billsburg knew otherwise. For you see, living on an unassuming cul-de-sac in a two-story brick home was a trio that had become legends to anyone under the age of eighteen. They were the Frye sisters, and if the town was normal, the Frye sisters were anything but.

Now, that’s not to say that they didn’t behave like ordinary girls. They bickered and fought with each other and went to school and played with their friends like most girls their age. However, when trouble reared its ugly head, you could count on the Frye sisters to take center stage. When a kid in the neighborhood had a problem, the Frye sisters were the ones everyone went to. Each sister had their own special talent, and when they worked together, there was practically nothing they couldn’t accomplish.

The oldest, Lilian, was your standard pretty blonde middle schooler. While at first glance she might have appeared like a wisp of a thing, she was the muscle of the group, and did not put up with her sisters (or anyone else for that matter) getting bullied. Everyone, even the rough and tumble teens of Billsburg knew that it wasn’t worth it to get into it with Lilian. Not unless you wanted a black eye, that is.

The middle Frye sister, Elanor, was known for her ability to persuade anyone to do practically anything. Under her long, messy brown hair was a set of wide eyes and a disarming smile, but those weren’t her biggest weapons. She was a talker, and she knew exactly what to say to get people to do what she wanted. While this concerned her parents to some degree, it had served to help Elanor and her sisters to get into and out of trouble more times than anyone could count.

The youngest, Gwendolyn, was where the trio went from impressive to legendary among the children of Billsburg. The tiny, usually messy redhead could be found digging for worms, playing in leaves, and doing everything she could to get herself dirty when playing, but when a mystery needed to be solved, there were few people out there who could match her sharp, deductive mind. She was the sleuth of the group, and even if it didn’t seem like she was paying attention, you’d better believe that there was nothing that got by her keen gaze.

So, when a child needed help, and when it was the kind of help that adults are unable or unwilling to provide, that child knew that they could turn to the Frye sisters. For a fee, of course. It was Elanor that handled the books, and while all three sisters were happy to lend their services where they could, they admitted it was nice to collect a dollar a job.

One such job arrived on a normal, June day in the form of a sweaty young man standing at the Frye family door. Lilian opened the front screen to reveal Tommy Lawson from one street over. He was covered in grass stains and looked like he was about to cry.

“I need to hire you,” he said as he wiped some sweat from his forehead. Whether it was because they were bored or they had heard him, the other two Frye sisters appeared behind Lilian and took in the sight of their messy neighbor.

“Well, we’re always up for a new job. So, what happened to you?” Elanor asked.

“I was mowing Mrs. Wilkinson’s yard down the street,” Tommy said as he pointed down the lane. “It’s part of my new business.”

“Business?” Elanor perked up. “What business?”

Tommy dug into his pocket and pulled out a business card. It read

TOMMY LAWSON: LANDSCAPE SERVICES

“You’ll get plenty of work in this neighborhood,” said Gwen. “Have you tried Mr. Linkletter down the street? He can’t mow with that bad back of his.”

“I won’t be getting much of any business now,” Tommy sighed. “Not after what happened with Mrs. Wilkinson.”

All three girls asked at once. “What happened?”

“Well,” Tommy started, “I had spoken with Mrs. Wilkinson about handling her yard, and she was fine with it. I charged her ten bucks for the front and back, and she threw in a bottle of pop since it’s so hot out.”

“That’s not too bad,” Lilian said.

“Anyway, I had just gotten done with the front and went around to the back shed to get her gas can to refill her mower when I heard Mrs. Wilkinson shout for me. When I came back around to the front, her bay window was shattered. Mrs. Wilkinson said I must have hit a rock and smashed it, but I didn’t! Her window was fine when I went around back.”

“That’s rough,” Lilian said.

Tommy nodded. “Mrs. Wilkinson told me to go home and that she was going to make my dad pay for the window, but I wasn’t the one who threw the rock.”

“You think someone smashed it on purpose?” Gwen asked.

“I sure do,” Tommy said. “I was back there for a good few minutes. Someone had time to throw a rock and book it out of there, easy.”

“So, who do you think threw the rock?”

“Well,” Tommy said, thinking about it for a moment. “Mrs. Wilkinson told me I could mow her yard because the other kid she hired was doing an awful job. I think she’s the one who smashed the window.”

“She?” Elanor asked.

“Yeah,” Tommy said. “Sally Parker.”

“Parker,” Lilian growled. She cracked her knuckles as her face darkened with anger. “Well, that explains everything.”

Sally Parker was known by most parents in the neighborhood as the most perfect little angel this side of Heaven. The local children, however, knew her to be quite the devil in disguise. Anytime there was mischief, you could bet your last penny that Sally Parker had something to do with it.

Lilian started marching past Tommy to go give Sally a talking to, but Gwen grabbed her arm. “Wait. We can’t just go over there and beat her up, Lils.”

“Oh yeah? Watch me.” Lilian pulled her arm free and started walking again.

“We need proof that Sally broke the window,” Gwen said. “If we can get that, then Tommy’s dad won’t have to pay for the damage and Tommy won’t lose a customer.”

Lilian thought about this and then put her hands in her pockets. “Fine,” she grumbled.

“Speaking of clients,” Elanor said with a smile as she scooted in front of Tommy. “We would be happy to take your case, provided you can pay?”

Tommy nodded. “If we can prove Sally did it, then Mrs. Wilkinson will pay me, and then I can pay you. Does that work?”

Elanor sighed. “Yeah. Gotta admit, this feels a lot like a charity case…”

“Oh, stuff it, Lanes. Tommy’s a friend,” Gwen said. “Come on, Tommy. Let’s go talk to Sally and get to the bottom of this.”

Sally lived several streets over in a tidy house with light blue siding. Gwen knocked on the door while the others stood close behind.

After a few moments, the door opened and there stood Sally Parker. She was tall, as in a full head taller than even Lilian. She towered over the group and sneered at them with her hands on her hips. She also had curly black hair that she wore short. Gwen suspected it was because Sally thought it made her look mature. Sally claimed that she had gone through a growth spurt, but a lot of the neighborhood kids suspected she had just been held back a year.

“Well, well, look who it is,” Sally said in a voice that was both sweet and sarcastic all at once. “The three little pigs and the big bad doof. What do you losers want?”

“You know why we’re here!” Tommy said angrily. He started to advance, but Lilian put her hand on his shoulder. She was itching to give Sally a piece of her mind for a number of reasons, but at the moment, this was Gwen’s show.

“No, I really don’t,” Sally said with a bored expression. “I’m honestly surprised to see you here. I haven’t even been out today.”

“Really?” Gwen asked. “Tommy here thinks you smashed Mrs. Wilkinson’s window earlier while he was helping her out. Do you know anything about that?”

“Excuse me?” Sally asked in an irritated tone. “You wanna accuse me of something, jerk?” She balled her hand into a fist and made to move on Tommy, but one look from Lilian made her stop. Lilian was the only kid in the neighborhood who had ever stood up to Sally. It had been a disagreement the summer before about a bike; Lilian had bought it with her chore money and Sally decided it belonged to her, instead. One quick punch from Lilian put the matter, and Sally, down for good.

“Were you at Mrs. Wilkinson’s earlier today?” Gwen asked.

“I told you,” Sally huffed. “I was inside all day. I couldn’t have seen this loser mowing her lawn; I was busy watching TV. There’s a reality show marathon about tiny houses and I’ve been positively glued to it. Go bug someone else, jerks.”

Sally stood aside to prove her point. Behind her was the living room, and on the television was a show focusing on what appeared to be very small homes.

“Huh,” Tommy said. “I could have sworn that it was her.”

Elanor patted Tommy on the shoulder as Sally started to close her door, but before she could, Gwen put her foot out and blocked her. “Before you go back to your show,” Gwen said, “I was curious, is you mom home?”

“What do you wanna know that for?” Sally asked.

“Well,” Gwen said, “it’s like this. You’re either going to come with us and admit to Mrs. Wilkinson that you smashed her window to make Tommy look bad so she would hire you back, or we tell your mother you not only smashed the window, but tried to lie your way out of it. Now, which is it going to be?”

 HOW DID GWEN KNOW SALLY WAS LYING?

   Solution to the case of the Shattered Window

Sally claimed that she had been inside all day watching television and that she couldn’t have been anywhere near Tommy or Mrs. Wilkinson’s house, but if that was the case, how did she know Tommy was mowing her yard? All Gwen had ever said was that Tommy was helping Mrs. Wilkinson, she never said how he was doing it. Once Gwen pointed this out to Sally, Sally confessed that she had thrown the rock to make Tommy look incompetent as a mower. Sally then admitted everything to Mrs. Wilkinson and paid for a new window out of her savings.

[lyta-roca]

Fictober - Day 3: “You did this?”

Fictober - Day 3: “You did this?”

Promt number: 3 

Fandom: 3 Bellow (Tales of Arcadia) 

Warnings/Tags: I just want to apologize for being late with this project, but I'm trying to catch up.

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After the great adventure that the heirs of Akiridion-5 had to defeat Morando, Stuart feared that both of them would forget about him. After all, since he came to earth, he had been alone (except for all those years that he was captive in area 49-B, next to Buster), of course, he had an electronics store (which nobody went to) And he had a burrito cart where he served many customers, but if he was honest with himself, he didn't have a single friend on the entire planet. The arrival of Aja, Krel and Varvatos, was a help to take a weight off him (that he did not know he had), their presence was a reminder that he should not be ashamed or fear to show what he was.

When Krel decided to stay on earth, Stuart made a promise to take care of him. He knew the waiting king had Lucy and white Ricky to take care of him, but he had grown so fond of the two children that it was impossible for him not to worry about them.

Stuart still remembers when Arcadia came under attack again. That day he went a little crazy trying to locate Krel. And by the time he found it, the first rays of the sun were already coming out. What Krel explained to him was that he had helped his friends to save the world from a certain "Arcane Order", which sought to destroy the world with "Seals of Genesis", in order to end humanity. Stuar would have laughed at such a story, considering it absurd, but he was a being from another planet, there were Trolls roaming around Arcadia freely and Krel would never lie about such a thing.

In the days after that event, he spent it helping Krel recover from his injuries. They might not be serious at all, and the boy kept saying that he was fine and didn't need to be taken care of, but Stuart could notice Krel limping at times. And the boy might not admit it out loud, but he was really grateful for the attention he was getting from Stuart.

Krel suffered greatly with the loss of his parents, and in all that time his sister returned to Akirodion-5, he began to notice his closeness to Stuart. Sure, it wasn't the same as spending time with his father, but Stuart went out of his way to try to make him feel better, entertain him, and be there for him. Let's say that somehow I was beginning to consider him in another father figure.

"You were already late, little brother"

Aja commented, when Krel told him about his recent discovery about Stuart.

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Turns out the idea of ​​meeting Aja and Krel's other friends wasn't a bad idea. It was a really curious group, but nice. Without a doubt, the atmosphere of the place was warm and very welcome of him, since it had been a long time since he felt at ease in a place full of people. Claire proved to be extremely curious to know about her home planet, so she tried to tell her as much as she could (including the detail of the strong scent of her kind, since for that encounter she had decided to remain in her human camouflage so as not to disturb nobody with his smell). Toby was very excited to introduce him to his best friend, Jim, who had heard (from Krel and Toby) that he had saved Arcadia on multiple occasions; Seeing how young he was and imagining that he had put his life in danger on more than one occasion, Stuart began to feel empathy for the boy. Then she met Blinkous (or as she had heard Jim, Toby and Claire called her: Blinky), a Troll who seemed to understand her in the concept of taking care of boys, plus she told her many interesting things and stories about Trolls.

Stuart listened intently as Blinkous spoke with great energy about Deya, the liberator, until he noticed Varvatos at the other end of the garden. Excusing himself to Blinkous, he entered the Nuñez house and locked himself in the bathroom. He drew a sigh (which he didn't know he had been holding) and looked at his reflection in the mirror. From practically their first meeting, Stuart had developed feelings for the commander of Akiridion-5, but he never commented on anything close to this because of his insecurity. After all, Stuart had no great talents to show off or show off. He left his planet only to escape his ex-girlfriend, he was held captive for several years and when he failed to take with him the only company he had in the place (Buster). Besides knowing that currently, Varvatos had a relationship with Nancy Domzalski, and he looked very happy, who was he to destroy that?

After he settled his ideas, he left the bathroom determined to continue his conversation with Blinkous, after all, Deya's story had really gotten him. Turns out the Troll story was very interesting, and it helped keep your mind occupied. When he managed to visualize Blinkous he was intercepted by Aja and Krel who wore a smile (suspicious for Stuart's taste).

- Stuart, we need you to come with us - Aja spoke taking him from a heron and starting to direct him out of the Nuñez residence

- What? Why?

- Seklos and Gaylen, do you always ask so many questions? - Krel asked with a smile on her face

- Yes, especially when I am taken against my will

Both boys laughed at how dramatic Stuart was being.

It didn't take them long to reach their destination, as it was a place in the woods not far from Claire's house. By the time dusk came, it was giving way to the night sky.

- Well, let them drag me here, now tell me, what are we doing here?

"You just wait here a few minutes" Aja said as she and Krel were already finding each other heading back to Claire's house.

Somehow this didn't surprise Stuart, but it did disappoint him a bit that they left him without telling him or at least giving him a hint of what he was supposed to do there.

He didn't have to wait long, because in just a few minutes he began to hear footsteps heading in his direction. At first Stuart thought the worst, but then relaxed when he saw that it was just Varvatos. It was then that the nerves returned to his body.

- Vexie, what a joy to see you - he greeted with a somewhat forced smile

- It is certainly a delight for Varvatos to see you again, Stuart

Certainly, Stuart never expected such an answer.

- Oh sure. The same for me is a delight - he muttered through his teeth

For a few seconds they both kept their gaze, saying nothing.

- Wow, just look at the sky, it's already dark - Stuart broke with the silence watching how the stars began to shine overhead - he thought we better go back with the others

- Actually, Varvatos wants to talk to you for a moment, Stuart

- ok, I don't see why not, big man

To talk more comfortably, they both took a seat on a nearby rock.

- So ... - Stuart spoke - What do you want to talk about, mate?

- How would you describe love, Stuart?

- oh my - he managed to articulate - first of all, what is this question coming up with? Are there problems between you and Nancy?

- No, not at all - he answered quickly - Nancy and I decided to end our relationship

- What? Man, i'm really sorry

- Varvatos does not see why you should apologize.

- Well, it is an expression that is used to let you know that I am sorry that your relationship ended, as it can be something hard to overcome.

- I think Varvatos understands - he spoke thoughtfully - But Nancy I ended up on good terms, she is a good chess fighter and Varvatos enjoys a good game. But Varvatos wants to know how you describe love, Stuart.

- Well, that's complicated - he began - He thought he couldn't answer that. I mean, you know that I escaped my planet just because I didn't want to marry Gwen. And I haven't had any more relationships since. - and in a whisper she said - but there is someone.

- Someone? asked Varvatos.

Stuart wished the earth would swallow him right then and there.

- Yes, but you know things would not work

- And why not?

- Because I don't think it's worth it. I mean, I'm not someone important enough for that someone to pay attention to me.

- Silly stuff! - Varvatos exclaimed with some anger surprising Stuart - Varvatos will punish that someone for making you doubt that you are special

- I don't think that's necessary, big man - I try to reassure him - Like I told you. Not worth it

Despite the fact that Stuart's words had eased the tension of the moment a bit, Vanvatos continued to look somewhat angry.

- Everything okay, Vexie?

- Varvatos may never find out about that someone, but Varvatos wants you to know that you are special, Stuart

Stuart was speechless. Had he heard correctly?

Clearly he couldn't think much of that as from one moment to the next, Varvatos handed him (somewhat roughly) a letter. He saw that Varvatos's distinctive confident bearing had been replaced by one that expressed insecurity. With some intrigue he began to read the contents of the letter.

When he finished reading it, his face was practically an enigma. Varvatos watched him, waiting for a reaction that would tell him something clearer about what he thought, but seconds passed and Stuart still gave no indication of responding.

Meanwhile, Stuart's mind was in chaos. Only in his most intimate dreams this scenario was generated. But this was in real life, this was really happening and I didn't know what to do about it. The letter was a clear and great confession of love from the great general Varvatos towards him, and from what he could appreciate Pat had received some help writing it because there were several words and phrases that he knew that the Akiridian did not know their meaning (or at least I thought so).

- Did you ... did you write it? - finally spoke

Varvatos hesitated a bit before answering - Yes, with some help from Nancy

Stuart let out a light laugh. At first, Varvatos thought he was teasing but once he saw some tears falling down Stuart's cheeks he got scared.

- Varvatos never wanted to make you feel bad ...

- No. - Stuart interrupted - It's just ... I don't know what to say. I never thought that you would notice someone like me.

- What do you mean?

- You are a commander of a planet with really advanced technology and you are not afraid of anything - he explained regaining his composure - And I'm just Stuart.

- Wait, is Varvatos that someone you were talking about?

Stuart looked at Varvatos, confirming the question asked with his eyes.

- Just say you love each other! exclaimed a voice from the nearby bushes.

They both directed their gaze towards the place of origin of that comment and approached slowly. With nervous smiles, they found Aja and Krel. Two kids caught red-handed.

- It was his idea! - they said at the same time while pointing to each other

- We will talk about this later, children - Stuart spoke looking at them with some reproach

Seeing that they had nothing to excuse themselves from, both young men began to walk back to civilization.

- I guess ... - Stuart spoke once Aja and Krel were a few feet away from them - that we might consider planning a first date.

- Glorious.

[binkywinky]

hi! Comics rec anon here! to answer your question, I'm not entirely new to comics, have read a few but not enough to say I have a specific type. The first series I read was all the jessica jones comics which I really liked, also the miles morales series which i enjoyed and the spidergwen series which was cute but the art was kinda annoying lol. i also like a couple of dc ones like mister miracle. so i think i prefer a general rec from you since the comics world is so big. thanks in advance!

Got it. Hmm… let’s see. It’s probably easiest to break it down by publisher then. I’ll try to give a mix of ongoing, finished, and “classic” stories. 

Fair warning, I read a lot of comics (probably about 60 per month, and that’s not including manga), so even though this may feel like a long list, it’s short for me.

Marvel

Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man - Relatively new series, and it’s been fantastic so far. Great art, and a bit more grounded than the Amazing Spider-Man run (which is also great). Stellar art, too.

Miles Morales: Spider-Man - A little YA-ish at times, but overall enjoyable. You get to see a lot more of Miles’ personality in this one, which is always fun.

Superior Spider-Man - Because nothing is more fun than seeing a semi-reformed Otto Octavius try to be a hero.

Captain Marvel - Kelly Thompson does a phenomenal job with this series. She has a great hold of Carol’s voice. Would highly recommend Kelly Sue Deconnick and Margaret Stohl’s previous runs to give context (Captain Marvel 2012-2017, Mighty Captain Marvel, and The Life of Captain Marvel).

Jessica Jones - Not sure if you’ve read Kelly Thompson’s recent run or just Bendis’, but hers is definitely worth a read.

Avengers (2019) - actually a solid run. I would check this out if you’re more into crossover, large-scale storytelling. They’re in the middle of War of the Realms, though… so maybe wait until like August or September?

Immortal Hulk, Daredevil, and X-23 - also good. I read them off and on (not really my fave characters to read on their own, I enjoy them in ensembles), but the stories are solid.

Rogue & Gambit - mini series that I absolutely love by Kelly Thompson (she does great character work) that came out last year. Mr. & Mrs. X is a follow-up to it and also tons of fun (nearing its end as well). 

Runaways - I fell off of this when Brian K. Vaughn left, but I can say up through his run ended is well worth the read.

As far as classic stories, Infinity Gauntlet, The Dark Phoenix Saga, X-Men: Age of Apocalypse, Secret Invasion, and Secret Wars would be my first recommendations.

I would’ve recommended Spider-Gwen: Ghost Spider, but maybe wait on that. It’s about to end soon and transition to just Ghost Spider (where she leaves Earth-65 and comes to Earth-616 where Peter and Miles are). Same for X-Men. I’m currently reading Uncanny, but X-Men is about to be overhauled soon. So probably hold on that front.

DC/Vertigo

Honestly, not the biggest DC fan (I lean more towards Vertigo actually), but there are a few that I enjoy.

Action Comics (starting at #1000) - I am not a Superman fan, but I enjoy this series, which says a lot. I enjoy what Bendis is doing with him in this run.

Naomi - a new series, also by Bendis, following the story of a young Black girl who is investigating the circumstances around her adoption. Don’t want to give too much away, but probably my fave DC run at the moment. And Jamal Campbell’s art is fucking gorgeous.

Dial H for Hero - it’s fun. It’s weird. Not for everyone, but maybe give it a shot.

The Flash and Batman, New 52 runs - New 52 gets shit from fans a lot, but I thought these runs were awesome. Very good story-telling.

Dark Nights: Metal event - Probably one of the best things DC did in a long time. It’s a massive event that pretty much reworked the DC universe and all the characters. Enjoyed it immensely.

Heroes in Crisis - this miniseries ended very recently. It’s a story focused on a major event that happens at Sanctuary, a rehab for superheroes suffering from mental health issues (e.g. PTSD after doing something that nearly killed them). Not your usual superhero story, which I liked.

American Carnage - very gritty story focused on a white-passing Black man who infiltrates a white supremacist organization. It’s really fucking good.

High Level - I picked this book up randomly because the cover looked cool. I’ve been reading it ever since. I would say it’s weird sci-fi/fantasy/cyberpunk adventure. A little strong on the language, but very interesting story and great artwork.

Birds of Prey - awesome series with the DC women. A little shaky sometimes, but Gail Simone does really good character work. Her run is probably the only one I’d bother reading.

Deathbed - miniseries by Vertigo that ended maybe a year ago. It’s so bizarre and hilarious and out there. I loved it.

Batwoman (J.H. Williams run) and Batwoman: Rebirth - Kate Kane, my favorite lesbian superhero. Williams did a great job in his run (and the art is to die for). Don’t read the back half, they change writers and it’s a goddamn mess. But then Marguerite Bennett (a queer woman) picked it up in Rebirth, and it got awesome again. Also, shout-out to Greg Rucka for officially making her queerness canon in 52.

Wonder Woman - Wonder Woman’s my fave of DC main characters (along with Martian Manhunter and Wally West I & II), and my favorite run for her is Greg Rucka’s. He does a surprisingly good job of writing women. The run is over at the moment, but I’d check it out. Good stuff there.

For classic stories, Kingdom Come, Watchmen, Flashpoint (precursor to New 52), and Neil Gaiman’s Sandman are some of my faves.

Image

Image is probably what I read the most. Definitely has the most diverse pool of comics to choose from.

Saga - My favorite comic series of all-time. I’ve gotten so many people to read this and they love it. It’s weird - really weird, actually - but the storytelling is phenomenal. And it’s on hiatus right now, so plenty of time to get caught up.

Ice Cream Man - This series is so fucking weird, but I love it. It’s sorta like�� Tales from the Crypt? Different stories (mostly horror) that all feature this demon ice cream man.

The Weatherman - This series is such a goddamn delight. I don’t want to ruin the plot but just… yeah. Read the first issue and it just goes crazy from there.

Man-Eaters - Sort of a niche story. Basically, this takes place in a society where when women get their cycle, they turn into giant cats and maul men, so they’ve given them pills to keep them from menstruating. Sounds weird? Wait until you read it. Probably a highlight series of the year for me. 

Black Science - You might not like the art in this one, but maybe give it a shot? These scientists are trying to solve the problem of limited resources on Earth by hopping across dimensions for new ones (infinite dimensions, infinite resources). Only problem is, their machine got damaged so now they hop uncontrollably to whatever dimension it chooses for however long it decides. It’s a wild ride.

Middlewest - An interesting take on parent/child relationships and how the consequences of abuse, anger, and depression can manifest in dangerous ways. Sounds more bleak than it is - the story actually has quite a bit of humor.

Excellence - Very new series, but with a PoC lead, about PoCs, with mostly PoC creators. A story about a secret society of Black magicians and a son whose next in line to take on the mantle, and it’s pretty fucking cool. Issue 2 comes out this week - check it out!

The Walking Dead - I don’t think I have to explain this one, do I? Zombies.

Lazarus and Lazarus: Risen - Sci-fi story set in a dystopian society where the world is ruled by like 15 or so families, and they each have a Lazarus to fight for them. This is told from the perspective of the Carlyle family’s Lazarus, Forever. 

Die - If Dungeons & Dragons and Jumanji had a baby, it would be this book. Sounds weird, but once you read it, you’ll find the description to be accurate.

Anything from Brian K. Vaughn - I have yet to read something from Brian K. Vaughn that I don’t like. Saga, Paper Girls, Y: The Last Man, Runaways, Barrier… his shit’s always good.

Independents / Not Marvel, DC, or Image

Some of these are nostalgia-based, so fair warning.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (BOOM Studios) - very new series that’s out. Great art. If you were a fan of the show, I think you’ll like it. It’s a re-imagining of sorts. There’s also an Angel series that just started.

Nancy Drew (Dynamite) - Listen… I could not stand Nancy Drew as a kid. Never got into it and thought it was boring as hell. But I really loved this miniseries (another Kelly Thompson run). It’s maybe 5 issues?

Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers and Go Go Power Rangers (BOOM Studios) - Honest to God, if you had told me 3 years ago one of my fave comics would be a Power Rangers one, I would have laughed in your face. Both of these series are really good and provide the continuity, nuance, and characterization the show lacked. Fan of the show or not, I’d say it’s worth checking out if you enjoy the teenage superhero genre. Also, just some really amazing art and world-building.

Anything from Jinxworld - This is Bendis’ own publishing company. He’s put out Cover, Pearl, Scarlet, and United States vs. Murder, Inc. All of them are really good.

Umbrella Academy (Dark Horse) - This is the series the Netflix show is based off of. Right now, they’re doing Hotel Oblivion in the comics, but start with Apocalypse Suite and Dallas.

So, there you go anon. There are FAR more I would recommend, but I tried to give a good range of books for you to choose from without (hopefully) overwhelming you. And if you have any questions, I’m more than happy to talk about any of them.

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Please tell us a little bit about yourself.

I publish under multiple names in fiction and non-fiction, and am an internationally-produced playwright and radio writer. I spent the bulk of my career working backstage on Broadway, and a little bit in film and television production.

How long have you been writing for?

I started writing when I was six; I was published in school literary magazines, and, in high school, published in local papers when I handled publicity for the music department.  I started working professionally in theatre when I was 18. In college, my major was film and television production, and I veered away from the writing and more into technical aspects. Working off-Broadway, I started writing monologues for actresses looking for good material; that grew into plays, and then back into short stories and novels. So I’ve been writing for A Very Long Time.

What motivates you to write? How did you begin writing?

Writing is how I make sense of the world. How I explore other lives from the inside and the outside.

Do you have a writing routine? If so, what’s a typical day like for you?

I do my first 1K of the day on what I call my  “Primary Project” (whatever’s being drafted) early in the day. Feed the cats, do my yoga/meditation practice, write my first 1K of the day.

The rest of the day shapes up depending on if I’m doing only my own work, or a mix of my own work and client work and other freelance writing gigs. It’s shaped by what’s on the tightest deadline and the highest paycheck. I prefer to write in the morning and edit in the afternoons. Since I’m always juggling multiple projects, there are usually a handful of projects in various draft stages, and then some more in editing or galleys.  Scriptwriting usually requires a much tighter turnaround than books, so when those jobs come in, they take priority. Sometimes, I just have to stay up later or get up earlier to get it all done.

What was the first thing you did when you found out your book was being published?

Cried. Tears of joy, but I cried.

What was the publishing process like? How long did it take?

Months, of course. For me, there’s generally been one major edit from the editor’s initial notes and discussion, and then one to two more rounds of edits with the editor, with a tighter turnaround. Then, the copyeditor is brought in, and we have those edits and galleys. When I have unusual people names or place names or phrases in other languages, I submit that with the draft that goes to the editor and the copyeditor, so they can help me stay consistent.

For the series I write, keeping the Series Bibles updated is vital, too. As soon as a book is out of final galleys and headed for release, I update the Series Bible. I use tracking sheets for details that may change within drafts, but once it’s finalized, I update the Series Bible. That way, an inconsistency is a plot or character choice, not a mistake.

Are you currently working on anything new?

Always! The radio plays are getting a lot of traction right now, and I have four stage plays to finish this year: one on the painter Canaletto’s sisters; one on the gun violence epidemic; a collection of monologues called WOMEN WITH AN EDGE RESIST that’s a follow-up to one of my most popular plays, WOMEN WITH AN EDGE; and a play about two famous women authors. Plus, I have to keep up with the series I’m writing — The Gwen Finnegan Mysteries, The Coventina Circle Paranormal Romantic Suspense Series, the lighter Nautical Namaste Mysteries, and a few one-offs. Plus client work. So I’m always, always working on something new. This is my passion, but it is also my business, not my hobby. It’s how I keep a roof over my head.

If you weren’t a writer, what would your career be?

Still working on Broadway, as a dresser. Or, if I hadn’t gone down the theatre/writing path at all, probably an archaeologist.

What’s one thing you learned through writing that you wish you knew before you started?

Don’t let others define you. Define yourself. And realize that your life and your career are always a work in process.

What is your favorite book, genre, or author?

I don’t have just one of any of them! My favorite, favorite book, the one I’d need on a desert island, is THE COMPLETE WORKS OF SHAKESPEARE. I never get tired of Shakespeare. I also love POSSESSION, by AS Byatt.  Genre would probably be mystery. I find it often the most satisfying, although, as a writer, I like to mix it with other elements of other genres. Author? I don’t have a single favorite. Again, I always go back to Shakespeare. But it was Louisa May Alcott and Harriet Beecher Stowe who were the big inspirations for me to write. And Mildred Wirt Benson, the original writer of the Nancy Drew books as “Carolyn Keene.” She did another series, under her own name, with a heroine named Penny Parker. Penny is such a brat, but she’s hilarious.

I collect juvenile series mysteries from the early twentieth century: Beverly Gray, Vicki Barr, Judy Bolton, all of those. The racism in them is shocking, but it’s also a good snapshot of what was considered “normal” at the time and why we should know better now (but far too often don’t). You get a heroine like Ruth Fielding, a turn-of-the-twentieth-century heroine, who did all these great, adventurous things solving her mysteries, and then went on to a career writing in Hollywood, in a happy marriage. A lot of these heroines showed girls that there was more than one definition of “good” — and that it wasn’t a terrible thing to be smart, and show it.

What advice do you have for aspiring writers?

Put your butt in the chair every day and do the work. Books don’t write themselves. Plan time off as you want/need it. Don’t let the writing slide. And don’t blow first rights posting material from your drafts online or on social media if you want to sell the polished/finished work. There’s a world of difference between throwing out a rough draft and sharing an excerpt of a piece that’s contracted.

Is there anything else you would like to share?

Find your tribe. Find other writers you like to hang out with and talk to. Read each other’s work. Support each other. Every time one succeeds, it helps everybody. Jealousy and envy are a waste of energy. Learn the craft — craft is as important as art. Do the work, build the community, and you’ll start to see results.

About Devon Ellington

Devon Ellington publishes under half a dozen names in fiction and non-fiction and is an internationally-produced playwright and radio writer. She has eight novels published, several novellas, dozens of short stories, and hundreds of articles. She worked backstage on Broadway and in film and television production for years and teaches both online and in-person. Her main website, http://www.devonellingtonwork.com, will lead you to the websites for the different series, and her blog on the writing life, Ink in My Coffee, is at https://devonellington.wordpress.com

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The Coventina Circle Paranormal Romantic Suspense Series: Playing the Angles | The Spirit Repository | Relics & Requiem

The Gwen Finnegan Paranormal Archaeological Mysteries: Tracking Medusa | Myth & Interpretation

The Nautical Namaste Not-Quite-Cozy Mysteries (As Ava Dunne): Savasana at Sea

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Meet Devon Ellington [Author Interview] Please tell us a little bit about yourself. I publish under multiple names in fiction and non-fiction, and am an internationally-produced playwright and radio writer.

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For the ask meme: 10, 14, 19, 20, 23, 26, 27, 34, 36, 39, 44, 48

About someone I think is funny

My dad is brilliantly hilarious. Most of my cousins are also very funny. 

If you’re asking about a famous personality, Alex (IHE) has gotten a good amount of laughs out of me in the past few months. 

Something I like about my body

I have lots of moles. Those are pretty cute.

My favorite book

No singular favourite, but Chronicles of Narnia are a favourite I visit often.

My favorite movie

Most animated movies. If I have to select one specific movie, Anastasia. If a non-animated one, Dr Strange. In general, though, I’m not a movie person. I don’t like movie theatres, I don’t like dubs, and it’s hard to focus for two hours for me, especially considering it’s harder to find movies with subtitles.

A talent I have

I am a talentless lump. (In all seriousness, I am painfully average at everything. Nothing I particularly excel at.)

A fictional character I relate to

Too many to count, but in general, the ‘’sassy brat with a secret heart of gold’’ or ‘’quiet but kind personality’’ seems to be a pattern (or a mixture of both. In general, characters who seem like one thing at the start, but turn out to be different than expected. It honestly depends, because I don’t think I relate to any character fully. I relate to their personality, situation, background, family life, but never to everything at once. Like, Draco, Asahina, Peko, Maki and Saihara (to name a few) are all very relatable, but in very different ways.

Out of my own OCs, Gwen, Aurora, Alois, Robert and Linda have a lot of common with me. 

My favorite book I read for school

“Ozola Grāmata“ (The Oak Book) by Valdis Rūmnieks is the one who comes to mind. I barely read English books at school, and Latvian literature for obligatory reading is notoriously awful. I am honestly not surprised people read very little. That said, Ozola Grāmata is the one I remember liking, because it’s an adventure story that’s pretty exciting, and set in Rīga. If I have to pick from classic authors, though, most stuff by Rūdolfs Blaumanis is good, especially his short story collections.

A time I succeeded

I have won most of my karate and tennis tournaments I’ve participated in! In fact, I’ve only ever lost 9 tennis competitions. It’s a good stat, considering I’ve played more than 60. Aside from that, most theatre things I’ve participated in or led were pretty well-received, and my choir time also saw a bunch of competition wins (though theatre and choir success doesn’t just belong to only me, of course).

My favorite video game

Nancy Drew games are a classic that I enjoy (any murder mystery is great, in my opinion), but I haven’t replayed any Nancy games recently (in my semi-boycott of HER Interactive), so I’ll list some others I’ve been having fun with, like Danganronpa, Blazblue, Slime Rancher, Ni no Kuni, Hyperdimension Neptunia, American McGee’s Alice, Edolie/Stargazer, Darkest Dungeon, all three Bioshocks, and various visual novels, like Higurashi/Umineko, everything by Hanako Games, and Doki Doki Literature Club.

My favorite TV Show

I’ll exclude anime, otherwise we’d be here for 3 weeks. I always go either with Poirot or Castle in this question, since both of them are good, solid mystery shows that hold a lot of sentimental value for me (though they differ in tone quite a bit).

Something I want to do before I die

Get a PhD. Also, meet all my friends IRL.

Thank you for asking!

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It's been over a decade since Veronica Mars aired its final episode on television in 2007 after premiering in 2004, but the teen detective show still remains as beloved as ever. Just a few years ago, fans of the series—affectionately dubbed "Marshmallows"—funded a movie just for the chance to see the modern day Nancy Drew in action once again, making Kickstarter history in the process. Still, it's been a while since we've seen our favorite residents of Neptune, California. So what's the Veronica Mars cast up to today?

Kristen Bell

It's safe to say that Kristen Bell's career took off after she landed the titular role on Veronica Mars. After the show wrapped up its third season, she wasted no time at all adding new acting gigs to her resume. In 2008, she snagged the title role in Forgetting Sarah Marshall, playing the ex-girlfriend of Jason Segel's character. Bell also joined the cast of NBC's Heroes as the literally electric Elle Bishop.

Bell soon starred in a string of romantic comedies, including Couples Retreat, When In Rome, and You Again. If you're a video game fan, then you may have also noticed her in a few of the early Assassin's Creed games, in which she voices Lucy Stillman, a character designed in her likeness.

Today, however, Bell is best known for her later works, including narrating Gossip Girl, starring in House of Lies, and, of course, voicing Princess Anna in Frozen. Current projects for the actress, who shares two children with husband Dax Shepard, include a sequel to the hit comedy Bad Moms and a second season of The Good Place opposite Ted Danson. Just like Veronica Mars, Bell is always up to something.

Enrico Colantoni

With roles in Galaxy Quest and Just Shoot Me!, Enrico Colantoni already had quite a few acting gigs under his belt when he took on the role of ousted sheriff-turned-private investigator Keith Mars. And after his role as one of the greatest TV dads of our time, he continued to enjoy regular work.

He soon landed a major role in the CBS drama Flashpoint, playing Sgt. Gregory Parker. After Flashpoint ended, Colantoni went on to snag recurring roles in shows like Person of Interest, Powers, and American Gothic—not to mention playing the lead in the short-lived Canadian medical drama Remedy.

Next on his agenda: the TV mini-series Bad Blood, following the life of Montreal mob boss Vito Rizzuto. He's also been tapped to star in season two of Netflix's sci-fi drama, Travelers.

Jason Dohring

Jason Dohring nailed his performance of Logan Echolls, Neptune High's "obligatory psychotic jackass." But, of course, with the show's end, he was forced to say goodbye to the character we all loved to hate. After Veronica Mars, Dohring starred as a vampire with an attitude in the CBS drama Moonlight opposite Hawaii Five-0's Alex O'Loughlin. When that show was canceled after just one season, Dohring returned to the small screen yet again as Mr. Carpenter in Ringer. He later snagged recurring roles as Detective Will Kinney in The Originals and, most recently, as Chase Graves in iZombie—a show produced by Veronica Mars creator Rob Thomas.

And just what's kept Dohring acting all these years? Scientology, apparently. "[Scientology] saved my acting career," he told Portrait magazine (via BuddyTV).  "I became a professional through Scientology… I understand acting better because Scientology is the study of life."

Percy Daggs III

Percy Daggs III helped Veronica Mars as her BFF, Wallace Fennel, adding some much-needed fun to her life while still assisting her with the dirty work of private investigations. When Veronica Mars ended, Daggs took on a few guest roles in shows like In Plain Sight and Southland. But, unfortunately, his acting career never really got far. One likely reason for Daggs' stalled success could be his growing family. Just a quick look at his Instagram proves that he's been keeping busy as a husband and father to two children.

However, after making an appearance in the Veronica Mars movie, Daggs started adding to his acting portfolio again. Currently, he stars as Jas Hook in the web series The New Adventures of Peter and Wendy. He's also served as an associate producer for the 2017 documentary Eyes of Faith, which features appearances by the likes of Gwen Stefani, Wayne Brady, and former president Barack Obama.

Francis Capra

Before his days as the leader of the PCHers, Francis Capra was a child star, appearing in films like A Bronx Tale and Kazaam. After Veronica Mars ended, Capra went on to guest star on several shows, including Heroes, Sons of Anarchy, Blue Bloods, and Bones. Most recently, he starred in a few episodes of Guillermo del Toro's The Strain during its first season.

Right now, Capra seems to be taking a break from acting to focus on other passions like video games. If his Twitter account is any indication, he takes games like Injustice 2 very seriously.

Tina Majorino

Like Capra, Tina Majorino got her start in the entertainment industry at a young age, starring in a number of big-budget films, including When a Man Loves a Woman, Corrina, Corrina, Andre, and Waterworld. Not long before she took on the role of computer genius Cindy "Mac" MacKenzie, Majorino booked one of her most well-known roles to date—as Deb in the 2004 cult classic Napoleon Dynamite.

However, after her time on Veronica Mars came and went, Majorino stuck to the small screen, for the most part. She snagged recurring roles as Heather Tuttle in Big Love, Special Agent Genevieve Shaw in Bones, and Dr. Heather Brooks in Grey's Anatomy. Not one to limit herself, she's also appeared in a couple of music videos over the years, including videos for Lifehouse's 2005 song "Blind" and Pink's 2011 hit "F***in Perfect."

During her spare time when filming Veronica Mars, Majorino also started a band with her brother called The AM Project, though the group seems more like a fun side project than a new career venture.

Ryan Hansen

Ryan Hansen kept almost as busy as friend and co-star Bell since Veronica Mars wrapped, though he's remained under the radar by comparison. He's starred in a number of short-lived series, including Party Down, Bad Teacher, Bad Judge, and Resident Advisors, and has had several guest roles in popular shows like The League and The Mindy Project.

After the Veronica Mars movie, he headed a 2014 spin-off web series of sorts called Play It Again, Dick, following Hansen's fictional attempt to create a show centered around his Veronica Mars character, Dick Casablancas. However, Hansen is probably best recognized today as Caroline's ex-boyfriend Andy in the CBS comedy 2 Broke Girls.

Hansen also entered the film industry, appearing as minor characters in movies like Jem and the Holograms, Central Intelligence, and CHIPS —which also starred Hansen's real-life BFFs, Bell and Shepard.

Michael Muhney

Actor Michael Muhney has moved on from Sheriff Don Lamb, but he still managed to snag a character with the same cocky attitude. A couple of years after Veronica Mars wrapped, he took on the identity of Adam Newman in The Young and the Restless, one of the soap's many ruthless villains. But the success of his acting career wouldn't last too long. After portraying Adam for five years, Muhney was fired from the show. According to TMZ, young co-star Hunter King accused Muhney of bullying and sexual harassment and claimed that he'd groped her on at least two occasions, causing show execs to terminate Muhney's contract. Muhney, for his part, has denied these allegations, calling it "a salacious rumor."

These days, Muhney seems more interested in spending time with his wife and three children and regularly posts photos of his cycling competitions on Twitter.

Teddy Dunn

Out of everyone in the Veronica Mars cast, Teddy Dunn—AKA Veronica's first love, Duncan Kane—has changed the most since his Neptune High days. While he managed to snag a few small roles in projects like Jumper and CSI: NY, he soon gave up his acting career and dove headfirst into the legal world. After graduating from Boston College Law School in 2013, he became a Litigation Associate at a Philadelphia firm before becoming a law clerk in New Jersey.

Kyle Gallner

Kyle Gallner's acting schedule has only gotten busier over the years. After starring on Veronica Mars as Dick's younger brother Beaver Casablancas, the actor went on to star in TV shows like Big Love, CSI: NY, and Smallville, in which he played the Flash. He also had roles in several films, including Jennifer's Body, A Nightmare on Elm Street, and American Sniper.

Most recently, he starred as Hasil in Outsiders, a show following a tough family living off the grid in Appalachia, though the series has since been canceled. Gallner's set to star in the 2018 horror film Ghosts of War, alongside Billy Zane and Theo Rossi—another Veronica Mars alum.

In December 2015, Gallner married his longtime girlfriend, Tara Ferguson. The couple has two young children together, sons Oliver and Leo.

Chris Lowell

After giving up the character of the lovable music dork Stosh "Piz" Piznarski, Chris Lowell joined the cast of Private Practice as William "Dell" Parker. However, he left the show in 2010 after his character, an aspiring midwife, tragically died—a typical move for a Shonda Rhimes show.

Lowell's also starred in films like Up in the Air and The Help, as well as the shows Enlisted and Graves. He'll soon be seen in the 2017 Netflix original comedy GLOW, starring Community's Alison Brie as a female wrestler.

Lowell's also gone on to pursue a photography side gig, and he's pretty darn good, judging by his online portfolio.  

Tessa Thompson

A series regular in the second season of Veronica Mars, Tessa Thompson has since moved on to bigger and better things. She starred in a number of TV shows, including Grey's Anatomy, Hidden Palms, Heroes, and 666 Park Avenue. However, it wasn't until she snagged roles in the feature films Dear White People, Selma, and Creed that Hollywood finally started to take notice.

Soon after, she starred in the HBO hit Westworld, playing Charlotte Hale, the executive director of Delos Destinations, Inc. However, her biggest project to date is sure to be the 2017 Marvel film Thor: Ragnarok, in which she plays Valkyrie—the feminist warrior the Marvel cinematic universe has so desperately needed.

But acting isn't Thompson's only passion. She's also a member of the indie soul band Caught A Ghost, which has provided songs for Grey's Anatomy and Vampire Diaries.

Julie Gonzalo

Even during her stint as the cheerful-to-a-fault Parker Lee on Veronica Mars, Julie Gonzalo was best known for playing the mean Queen Bee in A Cinderella Story. But since leaving the Veronica Mars set, she has gone on to rack up a number of acting credits. Among other roles, Gonzalo acted alongside Jonny Lee Miller in Eli Stone and later co-starred in TNT's Dallas revival with actors Patrick Duffy, Jesse Metcalfe, and Jordana Brewster.

Next up for Gonzalo is the 2017 comedy How to Pick Your Second Husband First, a movie about a marriage therapist trying to fix her own relationship.

Amanda Seyfried

While Amanda Seyfried was never a regular cast member on Veronica Mars, the show's first season would have suffered without her eerie portrayal of the protagonist's murdered best friend, Lilly Kane. Seyfried, who had played Karen Smith in Mean Girls just one year earlier, later went on to portray Sarah Henrickson in the TV show Big Love. Despite her success on the small screen, Seyfried soon made the leap to Hollywood, starring in movies like Mamma Mia, Jennifer's Body, and Dear John as well as the 2012 Oscar-winning film Les Misérables. One of Seyfried's many projects on the horizon is the 2018 sequel to Mamma Mia, co-starring Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth, and the iconic Meryl Streep.

After dating Preacher's Dominic Cooper and Accepted's Justin Long, Seyfried found a partner in actor Thomas Sadoski. The pair tied the knot in March 2017 and soon after welcomed a baby girl into the world.

[queer-cosette]

Coco Writes

OK, so I know I’m not always great about summarising my fics on here; I usually just post links. But here is a masterpost of all my fics!

Les Miserables

The Leader And The Cynic

Rated T

1/1 chapter; 1226 words

Summary:

A series of moments from the relationship of Enjolras and Grantaire. Because now my happiness depends on the happiness of fictional revolutionaries. Modern AU

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Series - On Se Sent Comme Par Magie

The Destiny Of Cosette

Rated T

No Archive Warnings Apply

22/22 chapters; 88,475 words

Summary:

Cosette is an ordinary Parisian teenager - until one day, she stumbles across a powerful Faery being attacked by an ogre! And when she inadvertently uses magic to protect the Faery, Enjolras, she realises that she’s maybe not as normal as she thought. Enjolras invites her to attend Faery school in another dimension with him, where they become friends with three other faeries - Courfeyrac, Jehan and Éponine - and form Les Amis. But all is not well in the Magic Dimension -

What’s the deal with Grantaire, Marius, Bahorel and Combeferre - four cute wizards from another school?

What are Patron-Minette - a trio of witches - planning?

And who is Fantine, the mysterious Nymph who keeps appearing in Cosette’s dreams?

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The Shadow Phoenix

Rated T

No Archive Warnings Apply

26/26 chapters; 165,435 words

Summary:

Les Amis start their second year at Musain College for Faeries, and right off the bat, strange things begin happening in the Magic Dimension. Musichetta, a water Faery, arrives at the school begging for help to rescue her friends, the Piskies, and Patron-Minette have busted out of rehabilitation with the help of a strange skeletal knight - who matches Musichetta’s description of the Piskies’ kidnapper. With the help of Musichetta, Feuilly - a Wizard and new member of Les Amis -, and Professor Mabeuf, the wise new philosophy teacher, this year promises to be as exciting as the last!

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The Warlock Of The Flame

Rated T

Major Character Death

18/25 chapters; 122,516 words

Summary:

Cosette’s life is going great! With Lord Méchant defeated, her final year at Musain College for Faeries is going to be normal (for once); her relationship with Marius is going spectacularly (and it looks like there’s a proposal in the pipeline!); and there’s nothing to suggest that the Magical Dimension is in any danger. But then news of something horrible happening on Musichetta’s home planet reaches the ears of Les Amis - and according to Headmaster Myriel, there’s only one Warlock who could have caused it. As Cosette and her friends face off with the culprit, it becomes more and more apparent that his true nature and past are darker than any of them could have imagined...

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Total Drama

Dear Diary

Rated M

Major Character Death, Reference To Eating Disorders and Attempted/Implied Sexual Assault

9/? chapters; 27,617 words

Summary:

"Dear Diary - My teen angst bullshit now has a body count."

Heather Chandler. Gwen Duke. Lindsay McNamara. Courtney Sawyer. Together they make up the most powerful clique at Westerburg High. Most people would die to get into it.

Courtney would kill to get out of it.

Enter Duncan Dean. He has a way with women, a way with words, and a very special way with a gun.

"It's God versus my boyfriend, and God's losing..."

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A Little Fall Of Rain

Rated T

Major Character Death

1/1 chapter; 663 words

Summary:

In the midst of the July Uprising, Gwen Thénardier takes a bullet for long time friend Duncan Pontmercy, despite his love for Courtney and his obliviousness towards her feelings for him. Gwen as Éponine, Duncan as Marius. Based off the scene in the musical. I don't own TDI or Les Mis. Warning: Character Death.

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Freak Out, Let It Go

Rated K+ (G for AO3 users)

1/1 chapter; 271 words

Summary:

Alternatively called ‘What Happens When I listen To Avril Lavigne For Three Hours Straight’. One-shot starring our favourite crazy redhead. Enjoy.

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Bubblegum Bitch

Rated T

1/1 chapter; 539 words

Summary:

Heather is shiny and perfect on the outside, but on the inside she's a backstabbing user - a mess.

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I Wish

Rated T

Implied Character Death

1/1 chapter; 357 words

Summary:

When Courtney doesn't show up after TDWT's finale, Duncan does some serious thinking about the past.

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Miraculous Ladybug

mArinette

Rated T

No Archive Warnings Apply

7/8 chapters

Summary:

Marinette tells a lie. A pretty big lie. And soon one lie turns into another, and before she knows it, she's going out of her way to keep the lie going.

When Lila lies, it's sloppy. But Marinette's lie is all too believable.

At least no one else is getting hurt by her lie.

But Marinette's about to find out how hard it is to be known as the school slut.

An Easy A AU.

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Series - A Miraculous Musical

Cute Boys With Short Haircuts

Rated G

No Archive Warnings Apply

1/1 chapter

Summary: 

Marinette sees Adrien and Kagami kissing and jumps to conclusions. Hurt and upset, she heads up to her balcony to do the one thing that cheers her up: singing a really angsty song.

Adrien had nothing to do with the kiss. He just wants to ask Marinette out. He passes her balcony as Chat Noir and hears the most beautiful singing voice... but the song is so sad. And then he sticks around just a little too long, and catches sight of something he shouldn't have...

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Act One: Whalesong

Rated T

Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

2/? chapters

Summary:

Marinette's family receives tragic news, and suddenly her cousin becomes her roommate. With her only possessions being a small suitcase of clothes and a bizarre hair-clip, anyone connected to María Sugrue-Dupain begins to become infected with some sort of singing virus - in which they have no choice but to sing about their problems. Ms Bustier, ever resourceful, takes the opportunity to direct the class in a production of the musical 'Heathers', and there is drama on-stage and off it.

But why does the singing virus exist at all? Why is Gabriel Agreste suddenly so interested in Adrien's schoolmates? And seriously, is Nathalie OK? The Gorilla wants to know if he should call someone. Should he call someone?

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Series - Let Me Be Loved

More Adventurous

Rated G

No Archive Warnings Apply

1/1 chapter

Summary:

"And it's only doubts that we're counting On fingers broken long ago. I read with every broken heart We should become more adventurous..."

As Marinette sings at a Kitty Section concert, Adrien starts to notice her in a new light. Unfortunately, he's too late, even if he's not quite sure what he's too late for.

100% inspired by 'More Adventurous' by Rilo Kiley

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Equestria Girls

Dazzlings

Rated M

Contains Major Character Death, Reference To Eating Disorders and Attempted/Implied Sexual Assault

13/13 chapters

Summary:

"Well, fuck me gently with a chainsaw! Nancy Drew is onto you, Sunset."

Sunset Shimmer wished she was popular, and she became popular -

And suddenly she wished she wasn’t popular.

When Sunset is faced with a fate seemingly worse than death, mysterious new kid Flash Sentry suggests she take matters into her own hands and use drain cleaner, Ich Lüge bullets, and adult ignorance to make the world a better place.

But is his vision of a world without bullies really worth the cost?

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Original Work

Our Relationship Was A Rainbow

Rated T

No Archive Warnings Apply

1/1 chapter

Summary:

An original piece following the course of a relationship that in spite of glowing all the colours of the rainbow, ended grey and cloudy.

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An Anthology Of Verse, written by a traumatised (yet certified) idiot

Rated G

No Archive Warnings Apply

2/? chapters

Summary:

I asked my followers on Tumblr if they'd be interested in reading some of my original poetry if I posted it here. Four likes and a comment saying "Yes please!!" is more than good enough for me. I hope you enjoy it!

(Note: A lot of this was initially written a few years ago - or even longer. Some of it has - naturally - been edited since my initial draft, but some of it may have a different style to my more recent writing.)

(Another Note: I will be posting new poems as they come to me, or I rediscover them. I will also update tags as I go.)

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It’s overwhelming how much it was needed, that I didn’t know that’s what was needed. – Brian Michael Bendis • But long story short, I didn’t start doing stand-up because I wanted to have a TV show or be an actor or even wanted to write sketch comedy. I got into stand-up because I love stand-up. – Demetri Martin • Cancer is so much bigger than a TV show. – Laura Linney • Critics say it’s illegal for Donald Trump to run for president while hosting a TV show. It’s also illegal to run for president if your hair wasn’t born in this country. – Conan O’Brien • Doing films as an actor, you spend maybe 40 percent of the year doing your chosen profession. If you are on a successful TV show, you spend 80 percent of your year doing the thing you love. – Christina Ricci • Dont take Portlandia too personally – Its just a stupid TV show – Greg Graffin • Especially for people who are unknown, it’s easier to get a TV show because you don’t have to put a certain amount of people in movie theaters for a box office weekend. It’s really difficult to get a great lead role in some big film, if nobody knows you. – Eve Hewson • Especially with the video games and social media we have now, I think that turning point from kid to sort of adult has gotten earlier with TV shows that are on right now and video games. They all contribute to that. – Gage Munroe • Even if you go out there and try to make the most vanilla, non-offensive TV show possible, people are going to criticize you for doing that. It’s just part of the game. You can’t let it get to you. – Thomas Sadoski • Even when people are rich and successful on TV shows, there’s always some trouble – you have to poke holes in them, throw them out of a job, put a pie in the face. – Drew Carey • Every single job I do. It sounds goofy but I did a music video for Fergie. I was in full on tattoos, ponytail, but it’s like even things like that they help other people to see you in a different light. They give me opportunities. I try and change the image with every job that I can, it’s just hard when you work on a TV show and you work so many months and trying to get away from that. – Milo Ventimiglia • Every TV show I’ve ever made, every game I’ve ever built, and every book I’ve ever published has had the common thread of building the biggest, brightest spotlight imaginable and then flipping it around to shine on you. – Elan Lee • Everyone has days where they don’t get their way, where you have to go to bed early or you have too much homework to do or you can’t eat the candy that you want or you miss your favorite TV show and, in those moments, you just want to tear the whole world down. – Alex Hirsch • Film and television are very different. On the TV show, we do seven or eight scenes a day, so time and money are of the essence, and we have zero room for creativity because you’ve got to do each scene in only five takes. Whereas, on a film, you have an entire day to film one scene, so you have so much time to choose how you want to fill in a scene. – Shailene Woodley • Going out hanging out with the troops, and you know it’s kind of all summed up in the TV show, I don’t what else I can say about it. It’s a great thing to do, something I’m definitely proud of. – Kid Rock • Good comics stick around. There are people who have TV shows that might be successful, but comics can’t really fake it. If you say, ‘Hey, I love what you guys are doing – you’re funny,’ then you’re in. It’s legit. – Wanda Sykes • Government and politics isn’t like a reality TV show. It’s not about voting the bad guys out of the house. You know, it’s about what do we need to take our country or our state or our city forward? And people, frankly, would be well advised to really get back into understanding politics. – Campbell Newman • Growing up, I remember my parents feeling a little wary of ‘The Simpsons.’ This was the late eighties, and there was a wave of articles about TV shows that were bad for America. Then we all started watching it and loved it. – Mindy Kaling • Hailey [as a character] was born when I left the courtroom and moved to New York for Cochran and Grace, my TV show with Johnnie Cochran. I moved with two boxes of clothes, a curling iron, and $300; I didn’t know a soul in the city, so I would come home at night and I’d be all alone and just write. I missed the courtroom and [what led me to the courtroom] so much I wrote about it. After my fiancé Keith’s murder, I had never thought I would have children – I thought that it was not God’s plan for me to have a family. – Nancy Grace • Here’s my proposal, which is based on the TV show Survivor: We put the entire Congress on an island. All the food on this island is locked inside a vault, which can be opened only by an ordinary American taxpayer named Bob. Every day, the congresspersons are given a section of the Tax Code, which they must rewrite so that Bob can understand it. If he can, he lets them eat that day; if he can’t, he doesn’t. – Dave Barry • Honestly, after doing a TV show for eight years and a cartoon for more than a decade, you are, financially speaking, in a very lucky position where you don’t have to work for the sake of working. And I decided to take advantage of that. – Mila Kunis • Hosting a TV show is a full-time job in which success is defined by it never ending. – John Hodgman • I acted in millions of TV shows. – Sebastian Bach • I always did TV commercials and made great money to put myself through school. That became guest starring roles on TV shows. – Malin Akerman • I always looked at magazines. Ever since I was little I was obsessed with Elle magazine and the models. I would watch the model TV shows, like the specials on Milla Jovovich. – Katherine Bernhardt • I always wish the hotels were like they are in movies and TV shows, where if you’re in Paris, right outside your window is the Eiffel Tower. In Egypt, the pyramids are right there. In the movies, every hotel has a monument right outside your window. My hotel rooms overlook the garbage dumpster in the back alley. – Gilbert Gottfried • I am a little suspicious of industry paradigms. I feel like so many movies and TV shows feel so familiar because of over-reliance on these paradigms. – Alan Ball • I believe I’m just getting started. The TV show is just the foundation…. If you’re open to the possibilities, your life gets grander, bigger, bolder! – Oprah Winfrey • I believe that, not only in chess, but in life in general, people place too much stock in ratings – they pay attention to which TV shows have the highest ratings, how many friends they have on Facebook, and it’s funny. The best shows often have low ratings and it is impossible to have thousands of real friends. – Boris Gelfand • I came down to Orange because I sold the Smothers Brothers a song called ‘Chocolate,’ and that gave me enough money to move down here. I was washing windows down in Orange County when they called me up and said they wanted me to do their TV show. – Pat Paulsen • I came into the ‘Comedy Bang! Bang!’ TV show with a level of confidence that I don’t think I would’ve had if I hadn’t been doing the podcast for three years already. I certainly had to figure out in those three years the sense of humor I wanted to do and the way to talk to celebrities without being incredibly intimidated by them. – Scott Aukerman • I can’t do anything I want to. I mean, I can’t have my own TV show. I can’t have my own movie. But within my little world, nobody tells me what to put on the albums. – Lou Reed • I definitely want to start my own production company at some point. I’m actually teaming up with Funny or Die to put together a TV show right now, that I can’t really talk about because it’s still in the very preliminary stages, but if it pans out this will be the first project under my production company, which I have yet to name. – Dave Franco • I did a lot of terrible TV shows and was really terrible in them, and I’ve done terrible films I was terrible in, but nobody really noticed. – George Clooney • I did this TV show, which was my first job ever. It wasn’t a real acting part. It was like this promo for this sitcom and the main actress was meeting three different real people and then she was going to decide who was going to be on the episode. – Sean William Scott • I do a TV show about a priest in London, and he is also slightly beleaguered and is subject to fate and misfortune and daily difficulty. – Tom Hollander • I do think a lot of sexual violence stems from experiences in childhood or at puberty. Some people become sadistic after suffering early abuse at the hands of parents, relatives or friends. But for others, the seed is planted in the formative years by the conflation of images of violence with those of sexual arousal. Magazines, TV shows and, especially, slasher movies are masters at doing this. – Park Dietz • I do think that people get really emotionally involved in the TV shows that they love and I think that is fantastic. Of course they are going to have opinions. The other thing is that people project onto their television shows. They see a character and layer on many traits that are actually their own or their idea of what that character is. – Lisa Edelstein • I don’t care if I never do another TV show in my life. – Bobby Darin • I don’t really like to arrange shows by best performances. That’s why Emmy season is kind of a chore for me. Unlike movies, where it’s easier to decide who was the best performance, a TV show goes up and down, including characters/portrayals. – Hank Stuever • I don’t want my dad to say, ‘My daughter is an actress on a TV show.’ I want him to say, ‘My daughter cares about people.’ I would love to know that I’m a role model in Hollywood. – AnnaLynne McCord • I don’t want to be a TV star for the sake of being on TV. I want to have a TV show that’s based around my comedy. – Jim Gaffigan • I download TV shows more and more, especially from the US. – Julian Ovenden • I find America falling in love with a TV show flattering and interesting, but at the same time a little sad. – David Schwimmer • I find the film world very romantic. I want to try to be in more movies. When you’re on a TV show and you do the same thing for years and years, it can get a little bit boring. – Jane Levy • I found myself in Zurich Airport. I’d done a TV show, oddly enough, with Mavis Staples. That’s the way they do it in Switzerland. And I’d had a bit of a late night with members of her band. And I was – my flight was delayed. And I was sitting in the airport, and I just came up with the idea. And by the time, we landed at Heathrow, I’d pretty much sort of got it. – Nick Lowe • I get bored easily, so I need to do a lot. I’ve started a record label, so I get to nurture new talent and talk about music, which is a passion of mine. I’ve written another book. And I get to come to work and do the TV show, which is always really fun. – Ellen DeGeneres • I got on the TV show at 40 and that is something very rare. So, I know that God gave me that role (on) One Life to Live – the role of Carlotta, the role of a mom. – Patricia Mauceri • I had a TV show called ‘The Apprentice’ and it’s one of the most successful reality shows in the history of television. And now I’m doing something else. – Donald Trump • I had started acting when I was 7, and I was always wrong. I would always get to the very end [of the audition], but I wasn’t a perfect package of one thing. I wasn’t a cliche, and it always worked against me. I wasn’t pretty enough to play the popular girl, I wasn’t mousy enough to be the mousy girl. Then there was a TV show that Toni Collette was starring in. And when a role to play a girl who was struggling with identity came, I thought: “Oh, this is what I was supposed to do. Everything’s leading up to this moment.” I was 18. I was like, “This is it.” I didn’t get it. And I was devastated. – Brie Larson • I had told my agents that I never wanted to do an hour-long TV show. I said, “I’m not that stupid.” Because it’s the worst lifestyle in Hollywood. – Geena Davis • I hate remakes of TV shows – I didn’t like the new Charlie’s Angels at all – and I just don’t see the point of going back and doing the same thing over again. Baywatch was fun and successful, probably because we didn’t know what the heck we were doing. – Pamela Anderson • I hate those TV shows where characters talk about one thing, such as their patient on the operation table (let’s say they’re a doctor), then you realize they’re actually talking about actually talking about themselves. The patient’s open-heart surgery is nothing compared to their own messed-up heart or whatever. It’s selfish. And means they’re not concentrating, which is medical negligence. – Jaclyn Moriarty • I have a hit TV show. – Kim Kardashian • I have no plans to get an iPad. I know it will do more things than my Kindle, but I don’t want more things. If I want other stuff – movies, TV shows, weather forecasts, the forthcoming Josh Ritter album – I have my Mac. – Stephen King • I have not watched the TV show. I do not generally watch TV sci-fi drama shows. They make me itch. – Charles Stross • I have to be careful of what TV shows I choose, particularly ones that have commercials in them, because it’s going to be a different kind of television show. – John Hawkes • I just remember the early days of Tenacious D. There was no talk or thought about doing a TV show or a movie. – Jack Black • I just watch a lot of different films and different TV shows. Really for me, it’s just looking at how people react to different shows in different genres. For me, it’s more a study of people than a study of acting. – Sterling Beaumon • I keep it real normal, like I don’t try to act like a celebrity, or say that just because I’m on a TV show I can do other types of TV. I take it very seriously and I respect the art of acting. – Vinny Guadagnino • I know artists that have tried for a long time in the Christian industry and then they were on a TV show and all of the sudden the doors swing wide open. Christians want to connect with things that are mainstream.- Anthony Evans • I like doing both comedy and drama. I’m not really feeling more drawn to one over the other. I also like dramedies. I like movies and TV shows that are mixtures of the two. – Jane Levy • I like to know why a video has suddenly gone viral, why a song has broken, why a TV show is suddenly rating out of pattern… I’m pretty good at understanding why things are becoming popular. – Simon Cowell • I like working on the house, small carpentry stuff. I also like working on the van. That’s about as quiet as my mind gets, I think. I always loved working on the How’s Your News? TV show and at Camp Jabberwocky too. – Chad Urmston • I love Godzilla, but my favorite was on this TV Show, Johnny Sokko and His Flying Robot. I used to love the idea of having a giant robot under my control. That was like a dream come true for a kid. – Ice Cube • I love going to work, doing acting. I love when I’m done with a movie or a TV show. I love hitting the road or being in the studio or going on tour. That’s what I get off on. I don’t need to have my business in the press and all that stuff. I’m pretty low key. It’s all about the work for me. – Bryan Greenberg • I love hanging out with friends and family, going to the beach or just being a couch potato and binge watching TV shows or watching a good movie. – Yvette Gonzalez-Nacer • I love ‘Homeland.’ I think it’s such a well-done, well-acted TV show. – Victoria Justice • I love TV. I love being behind the scenes on a TV show but there’s something about, I don’t know there’s something very special when you’ve signed an artist and that first record comes in and it’s a good record. It is an indescribable feeling. – Simon Cowell • I owe my whole acting career to the fact that I’m a singer. I went out to Los Angeles and auditioned for a TV show called ‘Fame L.A.’ The original role was for a comedian, but they said I wasn’t very funny, so they asked me, ‘What else can you do?’ So I played a singer. – Christian Kane • I played some shows, but I’m disappointed it didn’t do better. I wish all my shows sold out, I wish I had sold more copies, I wish that a song was picked up to be in a TV show – whatever these little benchmarks are. You always want something more. – Eleanor Friedberger • I practice yoga at home to a TV show called ‘Inhale,’ taught by Steve Ross. I figured that if the people on the show could stretch that deep then I could too. I ended up pulling my hip flexor. But that’s how I met my husband. Paul was the physical therapist my coach called to meet with me after hours. – Danica Patrick • I push to be in good films and good TV shows. I don’t really pick and choose. I pick and choose what I will read for, and I’ve gotten to the point where I’m being offered stuff. – Darren Shahlavi • I rarely watch TV, and in the past two years, I’ve done three TV shows. It’s quite interesting. – Oliver Jackson-Cohen • I really like ‘Batman.’ Not the TV show, but the dark ‘Batman.’ – Denis Leary • I remember my first show was a live TV show in Ireland, and I was just petrified. It was horrific. – Caroline Corr • I sort of knew very early on that I wanted to be a writer. Even in high school, I was a big movie buff, very much into TV shows, and would critique them. – Lena Waithe • I spent my entire first pay cheque from Cracker, a TV show on ABC, on an Audi because my other car broke down and I needed to get to work. – Josh Hartnett • I started out dancing on a reality TV show, but always with the intention of making my way over to film. I transitioned into the film world by doing certain things that my fans had been used to seeing me do. My dancing and singing gave me the confidence to act. – Julianne Hough • I started using the Internet in 1999. That was pretty late. But as soon as I did I just stopped watching TV. The idea of sitting down and waiting for a TV show at a certain time, I couldn’t do this anymore. The Internet is a better form of entertainment to me. – Tom Anderson • I think comedians should focus on what makes them happy, what art form fulfills them the most. Don’t be calculated about it and say, ‘Okay, I’m gonna tweet, and I’m gonna podcast, and I’m gonna do standup, and one of those things is going to lead me to my own TV show.’ I don’t think that should be the goal. – Scott Aukerman • I think my biggest problem was, as a celebrity on a TV show, you get an inflated ego and you think you’re the center of the universe. – Kirk Cameron • I think that it’s just extremely rare to see any kind of TV show that’s completely written by one person, regardless of what any showrunner will tell you. – Judy Greer • I think TV shows have usurped films! – Edie Campbell • I want to do more comedy… I’ve done a couple TV shows that had some comedy going on. – Sunny Mabrey • I wanted people to see that I really am a real person. I’m not just some guy who was on a TV show, some guy engulfed in the Hollywood life. I’m just a normal guy when it comes down to it. – Scotty McCreery • I wanted to end it now, like a bad TV show turned off in the middle. – Tawni O’Dell • I was able to make the jump to theaters without having a TV show. My passion for getting a TV show just plummeted. It was like I had already achieved what I wanted to achieve. – Jim Gaffigan • I was on some TV shows with Lady Gaga the other week, and you could see the difference in reaction between her fans and my fans outside. She comes out, and she looks like a star, and the reaction is just tears, crying, people going, ‘Oh my God, Oh my God.’ My fans are like: ‘Alright, Ed.’ – Ed Sheeran • I was once asked if I had any ideas for a really scary reality TV show. I have one reality show that would really make your hair stand on end: “C-Students from Yale”. – Kurt Vonnegut • I’d always wanted to do a film than TV show because film is always where my heart has been. I like diving into the character for a few months, and then leaving it behind. I love the idea of that. – Shailene Woodley • I’d love to be on a TV series someday, but I believe you get the jobs that you’re meant to get. If the job that I’m meant to get is another musical or another play or film or TV show, I’m just happy to keep working. – Stark Sands • If by that you mean that I dislike celebrity magazines, prefer food to anorexia, refuse to watch TV shows about models, and hate the color pink, then yes. I am proud to be not really a girl. – John Green • If I did a TV show, it would have to be in North London because I’m a bit of a homebody, and my work takes me away from home enough. But yeah absolutely. Television has never been more exciting than it is now. – Simon Pegg • If I only did TV show, I’d probably not be the happiest girl. I love the show, but I’m an actor and I want to work on different things. TV lasts for so much of the year that you’re just aching to play a different part. And I love movies so much that I want to be a part of as many as I can. – Jane Levy • If you get on a TV show that’s successful, odds are that you’re playing the same character for as many years as the show is running, which can be its own blessing, but it can also be a curse because you’re playing the same thing and that can be tiresome. – Sarah Paulson • If you’re going to do a guest spot on television, they need bodies on those procedural TV shows. You’ve got to keep working, and that’s where a lot of the work is. – William Mapother • If you’re in a popular TV show, you can attract attention, and I like to help focus that on stories that deserve to be told – which is what politicians do. But I would lose my autonomy, and to get things done I would have to compromise and get into the weeds of policy. I don’t know if I’m smart enough. – Tony Goldwyn • I’m a character-driven director, and I tend to fall in love with the characters in my movies and TV shows. – Doug Liman • I’m a guy here to play football. I’m not here for photos or newspapers or TV shows or trophies or awards. I’m not into all that. – Randy Moss • I’m a huge fan of film primarily. But, you can get a great TV show and get attached to it. Making a great film is forever though; so I always want to be part of film. It’s my first love. – Aml Ameen • I’m actually really lazy. I tell myself, “Okay, you work six months out of the year and you have to get up at 4 a.m. …” I’ll relish the downtime by chilling on the couch and watching my favorite TV shows. – Liana Liberato • I’m always feeling like I don’t belong, no matter where I am. So I’m just searching for a family nonstop, and sometimes I find it in the mosh pit, sometimes I find it when I’m doing some French TV show with the president’s wife. – James Hetfield • I’m fortunate enough to act in a TV show that makes me a lot of money so I can pay for my own movies. I don’t have to wait for anybody and that’s more of what I like doing. But I still think that you don’t have to be connected in the industry to make your movie. You just have to write something that is meant to be made cheaply. – Mark Duplass • I’m in a play on Broadway, I have an animated TV show coming up, I have a few movies that just came out. – Neil Patrick Harris • I’m just saying stupid, funny things when I’m hanging out on the TV show. When I’m making music I’m in a completely different zone. – Chanel West Coast • I’m looking for a deal from one of you TV networks to give Snoop Dogg his own hood TV show where I can find America’s hottest hood artists. – Snoop Dogg • I’m not disciplined in terms of scheduling. I work best late at night, but I can’t do that when I’m on a TV show – our hours are roughly 10-6:30, so I have to go to sleep at a reasonable hour. So I’ll sometimes write fiction for an hour or two in the evenings, or several hours on the weekend afternoons – unless I’m actively writing a script for the show I’m working on, in which case there’s no time to write fiction at all. – Nick Antosca • I’m not going to watch two TV shows with vaginas in them unless somebody tells me why they’re different! – Ilana Glazer • I’m obsessed with voices in film. I have this memory of how people say words, even on the most intensely stupid reality TV show. – Jenny Hval • I’m proud of everything I achieved with ‘Idol,’ and away from ‘Idol’ also. It’s just such a different show now to what it was when I was on it. I didn’t even know it was a TV show until the third audition. – Kelly Clarkson • I’m really excited about my TV show. I wrote it with my best friend. – Pell James • I’m scared of watching a TV show about vampires. I can’t fall asleep. – Maurice Sendak • I’m so grateful to be living doing what I love. Whether it’s acting in Films or TV shows or writing and directing my own projects. – Kyle Cassie • I’m used to seeing it, but it’s weird having an Academy Award. You usually only see one of them on the TV show when they give them out, so it’s kind of surreal to have one in your house. – Steven Wright • I’m very grateful for work especially in film industry. It’s highly competitive and there are a lot of people standing behind me jumping at the opportunity to only do one thing, like one movie or one TV show or one episode. – Famke Janssen • In California, they don’t throw their garbage away – they make it into TV shows. – Woody Allen • In France, anyone can use your music on like a TV show or whatever – they don’t need to ask permission. It’s almost like a child when it has its own life. – Thomas Mars • In some ways, a novel isn’t as structurally rigorous as a screenplay or a TV show, which have finite real estate. In a novel, you can more deeply illuminate a character’s interior and get away with digressions. – Howard Gordon • In the middle of Beaches there’s a scene from the “Laverne & Shirley” TV show so they see some history of my work in each film. – Garry Marshall • It is tough, every time. The ensemble is great. I would always ask Andrew, “Is this how Hollywood is? Is this how every TV show and movie is?” And he was like, “No, dude. This is not. Do not get used to this. Be thankful that this is how your first gig is.” – Steven Yeun • It was actually the production group that ended up producing the show for us…Every musician, especially in the hip-hop community, you always make these show recaps or vlogs, and essentially what “Touring’s Boring” was is, we tried to make our vlogs interesting and almost more like a TV show. That’s how we got discovered by TV. – Mike Stud • It was feminism that made it possible for women to go to the Ivy League and women to be astronauts and women to have their own TV shows. What happened, though, was that the generation after feminism, which is my generation, misunderstood what feminism was saying. – Debora Spar • It was such a bigger picture [ Westworld] than what I thought it was. It’s more of a revolution than a TV show. – Evan Rachel Wood • It’s a lot of hard work to do a weekly TV show. It’s certainly not fun. – Michael Moore • It’s a TV show. Only the emotional damage is real. – Steven Moffat • It’s actually much harder to develop a TV show than I had anticipated. – Diablo Cody • It’s also one thing to see a celebrity or some kind of character on a TV show being gay. It’s a totally different thing when you know your husband… not your husband, but your brother or your friend or the dude you hung out in high school was gay. I mean, that is what changes people’s minds, what changes people’s minds. – Andrew Sullivan • It’s fun being on a TV show and not having to wear heels. – Trieste Kelly Dunn • It’s hard to find success and it’s hard to find hit movies or hit TV shows and to stay relevant. I think it’s a very difficult thing for actors, because a lot of us get lost, frankly. – Dylan McDermott • It’s impossible to overvalue the importance of television – both in its serious and less serious functions. It’s one of our most important ways of finding out the truth – and also of changing the world, and finding out what in the world needs changing. It’s also an immense bringer of joy – I learnt how to laugh through television, and now my children and I, every day of every week, share the joy and stupidity of TV shows – they actually make us HAPPY – Richard Curtis • It’s often the case with successful TV shows that they kind of inadvertently live on past their prime. It’s best to leave the audience wanting more. – Vince Gilligan • It’s weird how with a TV show, you don’t have just the one ending – you have the many. – Vince Gilligan • I’ve always been fascinated, obsessed even, with books and TV shows about unsolved murders, cold cases, forensic science, mysteries, and so on. Many times when I get inspiration for my work, it’s from something in one of these books or TV shows, or perhaps some newspaper article about a specific case. – Scott Heim • I’ve always got five or six things that would either make a good feature or TV show. And you just never know. You go and you pitch and it may be exactly what they’re looking for, or they may stop you after two sentences and say, “Oh, we’ve already done something just like that.” – John Sayles • I’ve been careful to keep my life separate because it’s important to me to have privacy and for my life not to be a marketing device for a movie or a TV show. I’m worth more than that. – Lisa Kudrow • I’ve had lots of things that didn’t work out, like TV shows. You learn a lot through mistakes – I learned that you have to be the captain of your ship. Actually, I own my ship. – Pamela Anderson • I’ve never been on a TV show for more than a season and you have to continually keep it interesting and you have to keep it connected, even as you change. – Ian Somerhalder • I’ve only done two other TV shows [instead of Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll], one was Rescue Me and the other was a show called The Job, which was at ABC and only on for two seasons. – Denis Leary • I’ve seen [Donald Trump] appear in a film or a TV show cameo or the tabloids, and he’s a grotesquely distasteful human being and always has been, always made me want to take a shower. But other people fell in love with him as a reality star. So does that mean that the entertainment industry is doing something wrong? I think reality TV answered that question a long time ago: Yes, it’s doing something terribly wrong. But there’s some great reality TV, and I’m not bagging on it completely. – Joss Whedon • I’ve seen [Trump] appear in a film or a TV show cameo or the tabloids, and he’s a grotesquely distasteful human being and always has been, always made me want to take a shower. – Joss Whedon • Josh [Friedman] and I have been friends for years, and he said, “Hey, if you ever want to do a TV show, I can take it over and run it,” and I was like, “Yes!” He’s always been so busy that I never dared to ask that, but it just worked out, time wise, that this was the season where we could probably do it, so I jumped at it. So, even though I’m busy with other stuff, I’m excited to be writing this. – John August • Just concentrate on the performers. Make sure you get the performers, and that’s it. That’s all we need to do.” And I was thinking, “Well what if you do both? Of course the performance is important, the writing is really important. But what if you could have the perfect marriage of making it look really slick as well?” I think that’s kind of what I tried to develop as a style, and Spaced was the first TV show I did where all the elements came together. – Edgar Wright • Knowing the right questions is better than knowing all the right answers” Caleb from Pretty Little Liars (TV Show) – Sara Shepard • L.A. ispolluted. It’s overpopulated. But it is very much home. It was inevitable for me, the moving back. I was living in San Francisco, and Joan broke it off with me, and I needed a place to live. I’d been divorced. And I needed to write movies and TV shows to earn a living. Alimony. All that. So I figured what the hell, I’ll go back to L.A. – James Ellroy • Launching a new TV show is probably one of the most difficult things that a writer can do. – George Meyer • Like we were saying, the fact that the relationships on the show are love-based, and in the sense that I wasn’t aware of how special it was in contrast to a lot of the other TV shows that are on right now. It was our audience members that pointed out the love that you see in the show is special. – Steve Zissis • More American young people can tell you where an island that the ‘Survivor’ TV series came from is located than can identify Afghanistan or Iraq. Ironically a TV show seems more real or at least more meaningful interesting or relevant than reality. – John Fahey • Most people get their politics, obviously, from TV shows about senators or movies about them or… all the day-to-day press and the talk shows. – Judd Gregg • Most TV shows don’t reward you for paying attention. – Matt Groening • Movies, novels, TV shows – these are the water fountains of today. We thirst for stories which speak to us by representing us, but we go to the water fountains in the centre of town looking for that, and we’re turned away, sent to the ghetto. – Hal Duncan • My approach to ‘Star Trek’ was, ‘I know science fiction, and I know screen writing.’ That was very arrogant of me, but you really need to be a little bit arrogant to think that what you have to say is good enough to justify the expense of hundreds of thousands – now millions of dollars – to make an episode of the TV show. – David Gerrold • My boy, that was a TV show. I used a stunt double. I always use a stunt double. Except in love scenes. I insist on doing those myself. – William Shatner • My favorite TV show is probably ‘Glee.’ I’m a Gleek, like everyone – else!Victoria Justice • My tastes in all things lean towards the arty and boring. I like sports documentaries about Scrabble players, bands that play quiet, unassuming music, and TV shows that win awards. In that way, I am an elitist snob. And proud of it. – Michael Ian Black • My TV show had been cancelled; nothing else had gone anywhere; some alliances I had made petered out and nothing came of them and I was looking at a long, long year ahead of me in which there was no work on the horizon, the phone wasn’t ringing. I had two kids, one of them a brand-new baby, and I didn’t know if I would be able to keep my house. – Tom Hanks • My wife is like, You finally get your own TV show, you can have any kind of car you want and you get a darned truck. But my brother and I have the same kind of truck now. – Jeff Foxworthy • My wife says I’m much happier when I’m not a regular on a TV show. – Alan Dale • Nasty is the new normal in Florida. Politics here is very gutterlike. It’s like a very bad reality TV show that still gets very high ratings. – Dan Gelber • Nira Park, who is my longtime producer and friend – I’ve know her since we did Spaced, the TV show – she gave me this script the last day of filming The World’s End. She said, “Take a look at this. It’s filming in London next year, and you might like to look at Jack.” I trust Nira implicitly. – Simon Pegg • Nobody’s talking about movies the way they’re talking about their favorite TV shows. – Steven Soderbergh • Obviously, in this day and age, with the TV shows, there are some really interesting ones. I’m not that interested in going and doing a network show, but like everybody else, trying to find something good. – Scott Speedman • Ok so there’s no TV shows, no movies going on fine, but I love going on stage and performing stand up so my situation is a little better than someone who’s strictly just an actor or actress. – Wanda Sykes • On Michael Moore TV show, when he went to the home of the guy who invented the car alarm and set off all the car alarms on the block… pretty funny. – P. J. O’Rourke • One day it was that I wanted to go make a movie with my kid and then another day it was that I wanted to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro and another day it was that I wanted to sit in the studio and figure something out. All those things manifested themselves into what the TV show was. – Casey Neistat • Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the ’50s. – Dan Aykroyd • People always ask about the transition from TV show to a movie, but it felt like just going to a different school. You don’t really notice the transition, when you’re in the moment. – Shailene Woodley • People are recognizing that I am an entrepreneur and do more than be on a reality TV show. -Kim Kardashian • People on both sides of any conflict believe they are right, whether it’s on a TV show or in the real world. – Mandy Patinkin • People say that you want to be varied in your career, and I’ve done so many things and am very appreciative. But, the one thing I’ve never done and wanted to do was to be a regular on a TV show, where you get 22 weeks of the year to develop and play a character. I’ve done arcs of five or eight episodes on shows, but I’d like to have a character that’s rich enough and deep enough to want to explore and live with for a few years. Playing the same character, but doing different scenes seems very exciting to me. – Jim Piddock • Phil Harris and Pat Boone were once paired as guests on an episode of Andy Williams’ TV show. During a rehearsal break, Harris suggested the three of them go out for a drink. When Boone declined, explaining he did not drink, Harris asked Williams, “Andy, can you imagine getting up in the morning knowing that’s the best you’re going to feel all day?” – Andy Williams • So I do have to work, you know, and I find as many movies and TV shows that I can, because otherwise I wouldn’t have an income. – Tippi Hedren • Some people may contend that there is no image more charming that a child holding a puppy or kitten. But for me that’s a distant second. When I see a child clutching a book… to his or her tiny bosom, I’m moved. Children can possess a book in a way they can never possess a video game, a TV show, or a Darth Vader doll. A book comes alive when they read it. They give it life themselves by understanding it. – Chris Van Allsburg • Some TV shows are like really good novels in that there are enough episodes that you start to have your own feelings about how the characters should act. When the scriptwriters go slightly wrong, when they make the character make a left turn that he or she wouldn’t do, you know enough about the characters to say, “No, that’s not what she would do there. That’s wrong.” You can actually argue with a TV show in a way that you can’t do as much with movie – you inhabit a TV show in the way you inhabit a novel. – Nicholson Baker • Something economically changed. It used to be that you needed 20 million people to watch a TV show for it to be a hit. Now, with just a few million people watching, you’re considered very successful, for a lot of these streaming services, or cable channels. Now, that allows people to do much more creatively ambitious work, because it’s not lowest common denominator. – Judd Apatow • Sometimes directors get hired into TV shows, and it’s so formulaic and they’re a slave to whatever everybody wants them to do. But everyone came in with their own style, and it blended together with the Helix style that was set, and at the same time, they’re bringing their own ideas and their own input. It was really fun working with all of them. – Kyra Zagorsky • Sometimes you see auteur TV shows and movies, and those are great. – Akiva Goldsman • Sony and Nickelodeon knew they wanted to create a TV show that was a platform for a band they would have for Sony. They knew what they wanted, and it took two years of auditions and screen tests and countless people coming in and out the door until they finally settled on the four of us. – James Maslow • Television is competitive now, and the great stories live on television right now. I’m finding that I’m enjoying television more than film, these days. That was my motivation to take a TV show. – Jaimie Alexander • Thanks to NBC News and thanks to the NBC primetime TV network, Donald Trump has been in living rooms for 11 years being who he is. The Donald Trump running for president is not an unknown quantity. The Donald Trump running for president is the Donald Trump everybody’s gotten to know, and quite a lot of people watch those Donald Trump TV shows, The Apprentice and whatever else on there. – Rush Limbaugh • The Baha’i celebrity, or the Belebrity, is a character actor with a big head playing an annoying creep on a TV show. – Rainn Wilson • The bigger budget films only shoot about a page or two a day, so there’s very specific amount of time spent on detail and getting each tidbit exactly how they want it. In a movie or TV show, you shoot eight or ten pages and you aren’t afforded as much time to do each scene. – Dan Payne • The consumer mentality – we like something, what other flavor does it come in? We like that TV show, does it come in a book form? Does it come in a capsule? How about a soup? – Paul Reiser • The headmistress was a very well-respected theater teacher. She taught me what stage left and stage right were, what a director was, and what all these things meant, which was something I had no concept of. She sent me off to drama school, at age 18, and I stayed there for three years. Before I knew it, I was working on a TV show. – Robert Kazinsky • The Netflix brand for TV shows is really all about binge viewing. The ability to get hooked and watch episode after episode. – Reed Hastings • The only thing worse than a crappy TV show which Paddy Chayevsky couldn’t have conceived in his worst nightmare is two megacorps fighting over who thought of the crappy show first. – Judd Apatow • The really great thing about having two TV shows going on at the same time is that I can go to one and say that I have to go and visit the other and then I can just go home and they don’t know. – Matt Groening • The scheduling thing is really weird with TV shows. Certain projects haven’t been able to work out because of the schedule, so some of it is out of your control. You don’t have very many opportunities. There isn’t much time, so you want to make sure you’re going to be doing something that you really feel good about or that you’re going to have a good creative experience doing. You’re taking up vacation time from your job, so you want it to be meaningful. – Ty Burrell • ‘The Simpsons’ from the very beginning was based on our memories of brash ’60s sitcoms – you had a main title theme that was bombastic and grabbed your attention – and when you look at TV shows of the 1970s and ’80s, things got very mild and toned down and… obsequious. – Matt Groening • The thing about working on a TV show is that it becomes, very quickly, all consuming. – Jonathan Nolan • The truth is that we have to, as American citizens, stop thinking that this life that we’re living, the things that we’re dealing with, is some reality TV show. This is real life, real children, real situations. – Stevie Wonder • The wonderful thing about a TV show is if you get picked up for another season, there’s no happily ever after. – Guy Branum • There are many films and TV shows I make where people find themselves in fantastical situations; as often as possible their reactions to it are very normal. – Joss Whedon • There were a lot of lessons of production to be learned. On the page, the biggest thing you learn on any TV show is how to write to your cast. You write the show at the beginning with certain voices in your head and you have a way that you think the characters will be, and then you have an actor go out there, and you start watching dailies and episodes. Then, you start realizing what they can do and what they can’t do, what they’re good at and what they’re not so good at, how they say things and what fits in their mouth, and you start tailoring the voice of the show to your cast. – Ronald D. Moore • There’s a huge demand for my entertainment, and I can’t meet the need. So I decided to try a TV show to reach as many of my fans as possible. – Tyler Perry • There’s two kinds of press that you get when you put out a TV show: The reviews, and the people that just decide what the reviews say. – Louis C. K. • This election ain’t no stinkin’ TV show. – Bradley Whitford • This is the contradiction we have in the media. We love vigilantes: Batman, Tarzan, Green Arrow – the comic books and the TV shows are filled with vigilantes. We love to promote it. Jesus Christ was a vigilante. We admire these people, but we don’t want to be associated with them. – Paul Watson • This whole thing about reality television to me is really indicative of America saying we’re not satisfied just watching television, we want to star in our own TV shows. We want you to discover us and put us in your own TV show, and we want television to be about us, finally. – Steven Spielberg • Those rosy memories we all share are actually memories from our favorite TV shows. We’ve confused our own childhoods with episodes of “Ozzie and Harriet,” “Father Knows Best,” and “The Brady Bunch.” In real life, Ozzie had a very visible mistress for years, Bud and Kitten on “Father Knows Best” grew up to become major druggies, and Mom on “The Brady Bunch” dated her fifteen-year-old fictional son. – Cynthia Heimel • To a certain degree, with a TV show, people are looking for a certain amount of familiarity. You don’t want to pull the rug out, but you also want to keep things fresh and keep changing it up. – Jonathan Nolan • To me, the greatest thing in the world is downloading TV shows on iTunes because there are no commercials, and yet if I were a working stiff, I could never afford to do this. But I don’t even think about money. – Stephen King • Trying to negotiate getting a couple of kids to watch the same TV show requires serious diplomacy. – Dee Dee Myers • TV and film are very different media with different requirements. In a TV show, you have actors and fellow writers and directors, who are interpreting your work. With a novel, you only have ink, words and your reader. – Howard Gordon • TV is such a success nowadays because it gives back in a way that features can’t. If you go to a film, you only get two hours of great storytellers and performers, and you pay top dollar for that. If you’re subscribing to premium channels and you’re getting all of these amazing TV shows, and you’re watching them as you want, where you want, when you want, on what you want, I think that is the “the golden era of TV” in what television shows are offering to audiences. We’re giving them a lot more. It’s quality. – Milo Ventimiglia • TV series, there’s a lot of everybody talking to you and giving you input for the first couple episodes, and then they’re on such a crazy schedule that you get another episode on a Monday, you have to have it done by Friday and it becomes very solitary work usually, TV shows. – Mark Mothersbaugh • Veep is the best and most realistic political TV show out there. – Christopher Michael Cillizza • Way back in 1979, as a guest on a local TV show in Arkansas, then Hillary Rodham was quizzed about not taking her husband’s last name when they got married and keeping her job as a lawyer while being first lady of the state. – Tamara Keith • We did ‘The Simpsons Movie,’ which took almost four years; it was the same people that do the TV show, and it just killed us. So that’s why there hasn’t been a second movie. But I imagine if the show ever does go off the air, they’ll start doing movies. – Matt Groening • We may not have a sample size larger than one, or we may not have unlimited resources – it’s a TV show, and we generally turn these things around in about a week or so. – Jamie Hyneman • We now have a generation of people who in many cases feel that if they become chefs, they’ll get a TV show. They have a signature haircut, a year into the business, or a branding arrangement with a shoe company. I don’t really relate to that. I guess this is the world we live in now. – Anthony Bourdain • What if it was cats who invented technology, would they have TV shows starring rubber sqeaky toys? – Douglas Coupland • What was bizarre, when I was younger, I never watched TV. I would rather watch a movie 100 times than to watch a TV show, just to find another nuance. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve watched ‘On the Waterfront’, just to find a flaw so that I can learn and try to improve my thing. – Vin Diesel • When I did TV shows and my other movies, I never try to do it for anybody. I just do what I think is good no matter what the genre is. – Will Gluck • When I first started writing for television in the seventies and eighties, the Internet didn’t exist, and we didn’t need to worry about foreign websites illegally distributing the latest TV shows and blockbuster movies online. – Al Franken • When I open many books, or most leading women’s magazines, or see almost all TV shows, I don’t find myself at all. I am completely anonymous. My value system is not there. – Bela Karolyi • When I planned my wedding the first time, my ex-husband and I, we were both struggling comics. I had a TV show that had gotten cancelled. Basically, I rented a wedding gown; the reception hall smelled like feet. – Sherri Shepherd • When I’m writing a theme song for a TV show I always think, “What would be Pavlovian where a kid would be in the kitchen, or an adult would be in the kitchen, and they hear the theme song come on and it would draw them back to the other room so that they would watch the show?” – Mark Mothersbaugh • When my TV show, ‘Sports Jobs with Junior Seau,’ assigned me to be a ‘Sports Illustrated��� reporter for a weekend, I didn’t realize I’d have to squeeze it in around another sports job. I had planned to retire from the NFL to enjoy the cushy lifestyle of a full-time reality TV star, but I wound up getting run over by a bull. – Junior Seau • When you do a TV show, the cumulative intimacy you develop with the audience through your characters is pretty profound. It may be the most profound storytelling there is, because the character gets to live and roll around in the audience’s mind week after week. – Howard Gordon • When you do a TV show, there’s always the fear that it will become tired and you’ll know exactly what’s going to happen.- Mads Mikkelsen • When you say, ‘I spent my summers at the Jersey Shore,’ people always say, ‘Oh, really?’ They think of the TV show. So I just say, ‘A cute little harbor town in New Jersey.’ – Taylor Swift • When you take on a TV show, you give trust to people that you really just met. – Katee Sackhoff • When you’re a regular on a TV show, they give you more of a backstory, so with these recurring gigs, you have to make up your own backstory. – Alan Dale • When you’re recording a TV show, you really feel like you’re in a bubble. – Judy Greer • When you’re writing for a TV show, what’s great is that you always know what actor you’re writing to. – Michael Brandt • Whether it’s being a leading man, making TV shows, being with my family, I’ve learned a lot. – Ashton Kutcher • Whoever calls and asks me to do stuff and obviously, with having your own TV show, people want you to get involved. They know you’re a stand-up comedian so they’re always looking for somebody funny to host an event. – Chelsea Handler • Writing for television is a great job. And it’s a job. Most people watch TV and have a comment about one or two moments of an episode – whether they love it or hate it or something in between. To come up with every moment of an entire season of a TV shows is heavy lifting. – Steven C. Harper • Writing pilots is such a specific thing. It’s not even really writing TV shows. A pilot is its own beast. – June Diane Raphael • You [Bill Maher] seem to have done alright with your TV show… I mean, I don’t get a sense… to the extent that they’re boycotting you, it’s because of your other wacky views rather than your particular views on religion. – Barack Obama • You and your scars. Please! You don’t kill youself like this!” I gesture, holding a wrist turned up to the ceiling, then pretending to cut across it with my other hand. “That’s just a cry for help. That’s just attention. Everbody knows that. Cutting across just gets you to the hospital. That’s just from movies and TV shows and stuff like that. You didn’t really try to kill yourself. you just wanted attention, but you screwed up. Try harder next time. – Barry Lyga • You can say “ass,” but you can’t say “asshole.” That’s why I always cringe when a character in a TV show refers to someone as an “ass.” Unless you’re British, calling someone an ass really doesn’t work. But those are the rules of television. You can be a dirtbag, but not a scumbag. – Gilbert Gottfried • You come to America, and, if you do a big TV show, then you can be overexposed, or old, before you’re new. – Chris Hemsworth • You get a kind of familiarity on a set when you’re on a TV show. – Alia Shawkat • You know, a TV show is a slow build. – Ray Romano • You want to put out a TV show? If you have the money to do it on your own, by yourself, and you have a TV network, you can do it by yourself. But the nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That’s how this industry works. So until the Internet becomes our source of entertainment – and watch it, I believe it will – this is how things go. – Nathan Fillion • You were doing a TV show – you don’t realise that you’re also making social commentary at the same time. – Amber Benson • You’ve got to do something to fill up your day. And I can only play so much guitar and watch so many TV shows. It fulfills me. There are two things about it I like: It makes me happy, and it makes other people happy. – Stephen King [clickbank-storefront-bestselling]

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• A great day for me is not getting out of bed. I like to see how many snacks I can eat..and how many really bad TV shows I can watch – Gwen Stefani • A TV show is constant work, which is the great thing about it. – Seth Rogen • An actor gives voice to the many multitudes that we all contain. That’s why we love the movies, why we love TV shows: we watch different people portray an aspect of ourselves, maybe even one we don’t like. – Kristen Stewart • And I don’t think that success can be measured by how many TV shows you’re on. – Clay Aiken • And so as a director, as a leader, and myself as a director and a leader, I kind of try to make sure that we hold onto the vision and kind of corral it, but by the time you finish whatever the project is, a TV show, a series, a movie, a stage show, it should be a product of what all those people can do, and therefore, it can never be what you imagined it would be in the beginning. – Brian Henson • And the consumer doesn’t care. They don’t watch networks, they watch TV shows. – Dick Wolf • As an actor, you very rarely have the experience of picking up a script and getting a few pages into it and realizing that what you’re holding in your hands is not just a role on a TV show, but it’s one of those special parts that comes along, once or twice in a career. If you’re lucky, you get an opportunity to do something really memorable and to be part of one of those rare shows that passes into that special category. – Holt McCallany • At the end of the day, the TV show is the best job in the world. I get to go anywhere I want, eat and drink whatever I want. As long as I just babble at the camera, other people will pay for it. It’s a gift. – Anthony Bourdain

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jQuery(document).ready(function($) var data = action: 'polyxgo_products_search', type: 'Product', keywords: 'Show', orderby: 'rand', order: 'DESC', template: '1', limit: '32', columns: '4', viewall:'Shop All', ; jQuery.post(spyr_params.ajaxurl,data, function(response) var obj = jQuery.parseJSON(response); jQuery('#thelovesof_show').html(obj); jQuery('#thelovesof_show img.swiper-lazy:not(.swiper-lazy-loaded)' ).each(function () var img = jQuery(this); img.attr("src",img.data('src')); img.addClass( 'swiper-lazy-loaded' ); img.removeAttr('data-src'); ); ); ); • Basically, growing up, and being a teenage kid, I’ve always been interested in charity. And one of the benefits of being on a TV show and having a fan base, you kind of have the power to spread news around. – Gregg Sulkin • Before the TV show of Jessica Jones, the response to Miles [Morales] is so overwhelming, and so constant, and it’s been five years now. I can’t even express to you how powerful it is on my end. It’s overwhelming how much it was needed, that I didn’t know that’s what was needed. – Brian Michael Bendis • But long story short, I didn’t start doing stand-up because I wanted to have a TV show or be an actor or even wanted to write sketch comedy. I got into stand-up because I love stand-up. – Demetri Martin • Cancer is so much bigger than a TV show. – Laura Linney • Critics say it’s illegal for Donald Trump to run for president while hosting a TV show. It’s also illegal to run for president if your hair wasn’t born in this country. – Conan O’Brien • Doing films as an actor, you spend maybe 40 percent of the year doing your chosen profession. If you are on a successful TV show, you spend 80 percent of your year doing the thing you love. – Christina Ricci • Dont take Portlandia too personally – Its just a stupid TV show – Greg Graffin • Especially for people who are unknown, it’s easier to get a TV show because you don’t have to put a certain amount of people in movie theaters for a box office weekend. It’s really difficult to get a great lead role in some big film, if nobody knows you. – Eve Hewson • Especially with the video games and social media we have now, I think that turning point from kid to sort of adult has gotten earlier with TV shows that are on right now and video games. They all contribute to that. – Gage Munroe • Even if you go out there and try to make the most vanilla, non-offensive TV show possible, people are going to criticize you for doing that. It’s just part of the game. You can’t let it get to you. – Thomas Sadoski • Even when people are rich and successful on TV shows, there’s always some trouble – you have to poke holes in them, throw them out of a job, put a pie in the face. – Drew Carey • Every single job I do. It sounds goofy but I did a music video for Fergie. I was in full on tattoos, ponytail, but it’s like even things like that they help other people to see you in a different light. They give me opportunities. I try and change the image with every job that I can, it’s just hard when you work on a TV show and you work so many months and trying to get away from that. – Milo Ventimiglia • Every TV show I’ve ever made, every game I’ve ever built, and every book I’ve ever published has had the common thread of building the biggest, brightest spotlight imaginable and then flipping it around to shine on you. – Elan Lee • Everyone has days where they don’t get their way, where you have to go to bed early or you have too much homework to do or you can’t eat the candy that you want or you miss your favorite TV show and, in those moments, you just want to tear the whole world down. – Alex Hirsch • Film and television are very different. On the TV show, we do seven or eight scenes a day, so time and money are of the essence, and we have zero room for creativity because you’ve got to do each scene in only five takes. Whereas, on a film, you have an entire day to film one scene, so you have so much time to choose how you want to fill in a scene. – Shailene Woodley • Going out hanging out with the troops, and you know it’s kind of all summed up in the TV show, I don’t what else I can say about it. It’s a great thing to do, something I’m definitely proud of. – Kid Rock • Good comics stick around. There are people who have TV shows that might be successful, but comics can’t really fake it. If you say, ‘Hey, I love what you guys are doing – you’re funny,’ then you’re in. It’s legit. – Wanda Sykes • Government and politics isn’t like a reality TV show. It’s not about voting the bad guys out of the house. You know, it’s about what do we need to take our country or our state or our city forward? And people, frankly, would be well advised to really get back into understanding politics. – Campbell Newman • Growing up, I remember my parents feeling a little wary of ‘The Simpsons.’ This was the late eighties, and there was a wave of articles about TV shows that were bad for America. Then we all started watching it and loved it. – Mindy Kaling • Hailey [as a character] was born when I left the courtroom and moved to New York for Cochran and Grace, my TV show with Johnnie Cochran. I moved with two boxes of clothes, a curling iron, and $300; I didn’t know a soul in the city, so I would come home at night and I’d be all alone and just write. I missed the courtroom and [what led me to the courtroom] so much I wrote about it. After my fiancé Keith’s murder, I had never thought I would have children – I thought that it was not God’s plan for me to have a family. – Nancy Grace • Here’s my proposal, which is based on the TV show Survivor: We put the entire Congress on an island. All the food on this island is locked inside a vault, which can be opened only by an ordinary American taxpayer named Bob. Every day, the congresspersons are given a section of the Tax Code, which they must rewrite so that Bob can understand it. If he can, he lets them eat that day; if he can’t, he doesn’t. – Dave Barry • Honestly, after doing a TV show for eight years and a cartoon for more than a decade, you are, financially speaking, in a very lucky position where you don’t have to work for the sake of working. And I decided to take advantage of that. – Mila Kunis • Hosting a TV show is a full-time job in which success is defined by it never ending. – John Hodgman • I acted in millions of TV shows. – Sebastian Bach • I always did TV commercials and made great money to put myself through school. That became guest starring roles on TV shows. – Malin Akerman • I always looked at magazines. Ever since I was little I was obsessed with Elle magazine and the models. I would watch the model TV shows, like the specials on Milla Jovovich. – Katherine Bernhardt • I always wish the hotels were like they are in movies and TV shows, where if you’re in Paris, right outside your window is the Eiffel Tower. In Egypt, the pyramids are right there. In the movies, every hotel has a monument right outside your window. My hotel rooms overlook the garbage dumpster in the back alley. – Gilbert Gottfried • I am a little suspicious of industry paradigms. I feel like so many movies and TV shows feel so familiar because of over-reliance on these paradigms. – Alan Ball • I believe I’m just getting started. The TV show is just the foundation…. If you’re open to the possibilities, your life gets grander, bigger, bolder! – Oprah Winfrey • I believe that, not only in chess, but in life in general, people place too much stock in ratings – they pay attention to which TV shows have the highest ratings, how many friends they have on Facebook, and it’s funny. The best shows often have low ratings and it is impossible to have thousands of real friends. – Boris Gelfand • I came down to Orange because I sold the Smothers Brothers a song called ‘Chocolate,’ and that gave me enough money to move down here. I was washing windows down in Orange County when they called me up and said they wanted me to do their TV show. – Pat Paulsen • I came into the ‘Comedy Bang! Bang!’ TV show with a level of confidence that I don’t think I would’ve had if I hadn’t been doing the podcast for three years already. I certainly had to figure out in those three years the sense of humor I wanted to do and the way to talk to celebrities without being incredibly intimidated by them. – Scott Aukerman • I can’t do anything I want to. I mean, I can’t have my own TV show. I can’t have my own movie. But within my little world, nobody tells me what to put on the albums. – Lou Reed • I definitely want to start my own production company at some point. I’m actually teaming up with Funny or Die to put together a TV show right now, that I can’t really talk about because it’s still in the very preliminary stages, but if it pans out this will be the first project under my production company, which I have yet to name. – Dave Franco • I did a lot of terrible TV shows and was really terrible in them, and I’ve done terrible films I was terrible in, but nobody really noticed. – George Clooney • I did this TV show, which was my first job ever. It wasn’t a real acting part. It was like this promo for this sitcom and the main actress was meeting three different real people and then she was going to decide who was going to be on the episode. – Sean William Scott • I do a TV show about a priest in London, and he is also slightly beleaguered and is subject to fate and misfortune and daily difficulty. – Tom Hollander • I do think a lot of sexual violence stems from experiences in childhood or at puberty. Some people become sadistic after suffering early abuse at the hands of parents, relatives or friends. But for others, the seed is planted in the formative years by the conflation of images of violence with those of sexual arousal. Magazines, TV shows and, especially, slasher movies are masters at doing this. – Park Dietz • I do think that people get really emotionally involved in the TV shows that they love and I think that is fantastic. Of course they are going to have opinions. The other thing is that people project onto their television shows. They see a character and layer on many traits that are actually their own or their idea of what that character is. – Lisa Edelstein • I don’t care if I never do another TV show in my life. – Bobby Darin • I don’t really like to arrange shows by best performances. That’s why Emmy season is kind of a chore for me. Unlike movies, where it’s easier to decide who was the best performance, a TV show goes up and down, including characters/portrayals. – Hank Stuever • I don’t want my dad to say, ‘My daughter is an actress on a TV show.’ I want him to say, ‘My daughter cares about people.’ I would love to know that I’m a role model in Hollywood. – AnnaLynne McCord • I don’t want to be a TV star for the sake of being on TV. I want to have a TV show that’s based around my comedy. – Jim Gaffigan • I download TV shows more and more, especially from the US. – Julian Ovenden • I find America falling in love with a TV show flattering and interesting, but at the same time a little sad. – David Schwimmer • I find the film world very romantic. I want to try to be in more movies. When you’re on a TV show and you do the same thing for years and years, it can get a little bit boring. – Jane Levy • I found myself in Zurich Airport. I’d done a TV show, oddly enough, with Mavis Staples. That’s the way they do it in Switzerland. And I’d had a bit of a late night with members of her band. And I was – my flight was delayed. And I was sitting in the airport, and I just came up with the idea. And by the time, we landed at Heathrow, I’d pretty much sort of got it. – Nick Lowe • I get bored easily, so I need to do a lot. I’ve started a record label, so I get to nurture new talent and talk about music, which is a passion of mine. I’ve written another book. And I get to come to work and do the TV show, which is always really fun. – Ellen DeGeneres • I got on the TV show at 40 and that is something very rare. So, I know that God gave me that role (on) One Life to Live – the role of Carlotta, the role of a mom. – Patricia Mauceri • I had a TV show called ‘The Apprentice’ and it’s one of the most successful reality shows in the history of television. And now I’m doing something else. – Donald Trump • I had started acting when I was 7, and I was always wrong. I would always get to the very end [of the audition], but I wasn’t a perfect package of one thing. I wasn’t a cliche, and it always worked against me. I wasn’t pretty enough to play the popular girl, I wasn’t mousy enough to be the mousy girl. Then there was a TV show that Toni Collette was starring in. And when a role to play a girl who was struggling with identity came, I thought: “Oh, this is what I was supposed to do. Everything’s leading up to this moment.” I was 18. I was like, “This is it.” I didn’t get it. And I was devastated. – Brie Larson • I had told my agents that I never wanted to do an hour-long TV show. I said, “I’m not that stupid.” Because it’s the worst lifestyle in Hollywood. – Geena Davis • I hate remakes of TV shows – I didn’t like the new Charlie’s Angels at all – and I just don’t see the point of going back and doing the same thing over again. Baywatch was fun and successful, probably because we didn’t know what the heck we were doing. – Pamela Anderson • I hate those TV shows where characters talk about one thing, such as their patient on the operation table (let’s say they’re a doctor), then you realize they’re actually talking about actually talking about themselves. The patient’s open-heart surgery is nothing compared to their own messed-up heart or whatever. It’s selfish. And means they’re not concentrating, which is medical negligence. – Jaclyn Moriarty • I have a hit TV show. – Kim Kardashian • I have no plans to get an iPad. I know it will do more things than my Kindle, but I don’t want more things. If I want other stuff – movies, TV shows, weather forecasts, the forthcoming Josh Ritter album – I have my Mac. – Stephen King • I have not watched the TV show. I do not generally watch TV sci-fi drama shows. They make me itch. – Charles Stross • I have to be careful of what TV shows I choose, particularly ones that have commercials in them, because it’s going to be a different kind of television show. – John Hawkes • I just remember the early days of Tenacious D. There was no talk or thought about doing a TV show or a movie. – Jack Black • I just watch a lot of different films and different TV shows. Really for me, it’s just looking at how people react to different shows in different genres. For me, it’s more a study of people than a study of acting. – Sterling Beaumon • I keep it real normal, like I don’t try to act like a celebrity, or say that just because I’m on a TV show I can do other types of TV. I take it very seriously and I respect the art of acting. – Vinny Guadagnino • I know artists that have tried for a long time in the Christian industry and then they were on a TV show and all of the sudden the doors swing wide open. Christians want to connect with things that are mainstream.- Anthony Evans • I like doing both comedy and drama. I’m not really feeling more drawn to one over the other. I also like dramedies. I like movies and TV shows that are mixtures of the two. – Jane Levy • I like to know why a video has suddenly gone viral, why a song has broken, why a TV show is suddenly rating out of pattern… I’m pretty good at understanding why things are becoming popular. – Simon Cowell • I like working on the house, small carpentry stuff. I also like working on the van. That’s about as quiet as my mind gets, I think. I always loved working on the How’s Your News? TV show and at Camp Jabberwocky too. – Chad Urmston • I love Godzilla, but my favorite was on this TV Show, Johnny Sokko and His Flying Robot. I used to love the idea of having a giant robot under my control. That was like a dream come true for a kid. – Ice Cube • I love going to work, doing acting. I love when I’m done with a movie or a TV show. I love hitting the road or being in the studio or going on tour. That’s what I get off on. I don’t need to have my business in the press and all that stuff. I’m pretty low key. It’s all about the work for me. – Bryan Greenberg • I love hanging out with friends and family, going to the beach or just being a couch potato and binge watching TV shows or watching a good movie. – Yvette Gonzalez-Nacer • I love ‘Homeland.’ I think it’s such a well-done, well-acted TV show. – Victoria Justice • I love TV. I love being behind the scenes on a TV show but there’s something about, I don’t know there’s something very special when you’ve signed an artist and that first record comes in and it’s a good record. It is an indescribable feeling. – Simon Cowell • I owe my whole acting career to the fact that I’m a singer. I went out to Los Angeles and auditioned for a TV show called ‘Fame L.A.’ The original role was for a comedian, but they said I wasn’t very funny, so they asked me, ‘What else can you do?’ So I played a singer. – Christian Kane • I played some shows, but I’m disappointed it didn’t do better. I wish all my shows sold out, I wish I had sold more copies, I wish that a song was picked up to be in a TV show – whatever these little benchmarks are. You always want something more. – Eleanor Friedberger • I practice yoga at home to a TV show called ‘Inhale,’ taught by Steve Ross. I figured that if the people on the show could stretch that deep then I could too. I ended up pulling my hip flexor. But that’s how I met my husband. Paul was the physical therapist my coach called to meet with me after hours. – Danica Patrick • I push to be in good films and good TV shows. I don’t really pick and choose. I pick and choose what I will read for, and I’ve gotten to the point where I’m being offered stuff. – Darren Shahlavi • I rarely watch TV, and in the past two years, I’ve done three TV shows. It’s quite interesting. – Oliver Jackson-Cohen • I really like ‘Batman.’ Not the TV show, but the dark ‘Batman.’ – Denis Leary • I remember my first show was a live TV show in Ireland, and I was just petrified. It was horrific. – Caroline Corr • I sort of knew very early on that I wanted to be a writer. Even in high school, I was a big movie buff, very much into TV shows, and would critique them. – Lena Waithe • I spent my entire first pay cheque from Cracker, a TV show on ABC, on an Audi because my other car broke down and I needed to get to work. – Josh Hartnett • I started out dancing on a reality TV show, but always with the intention of making my way over to film. I transitioned into the film world by doing certain things that my fans had been used to seeing me do. My dancing and singing gave me the confidence to act. – Julianne Hough • I started using the Internet in 1999. That was pretty late. But as soon as I did I just stopped watching TV. The idea of sitting down and waiting for a TV show at a certain time, I couldn’t do this anymore. The Internet is a better form of entertainment to me. – Tom Anderson • I think comedians should focus on what makes them happy, what art form fulfills them the most. Don’t be calculated about it and say, ‘Okay, I’m gonna tweet, and I’m gonna podcast, and I’m gonna do standup, and one of those things is going to lead me to my own TV show.’ I don’t think that should be the goal. – Scott Aukerman • I think my biggest problem was, as a celebrity on a TV show, you get an inflated ego and you think you’re the center of the universe. – Kirk Cameron • I think that it’s just extremely rare to see any kind of TV show that’s completely written by one person, regardless of what any showrunner will tell you. – Judy Greer • I think TV shows have usurped films! – Edie Campbell • I want to do more comedy… I’ve done a couple TV shows that had some comedy going on. – Sunny Mabrey • I wanted people to see that I really am a real person. I’m not just some guy who was on a TV show, some guy engulfed in the Hollywood life. I’m just a normal guy when it comes down to it. – Scotty McCreery • I wanted to end it now, like a bad TV show turned off in the middle. – Tawni O’Dell • I was able to make the jump to theaters without having a TV show. My passion for getting a TV show just plummeted. It was like I had already achieved what I wanted to achieve. – Jim Gaffigan • I was on some TV shows with Lady Gaga the other week, and you could see the difference in reaction between her fans and my fans outside. She comes out, and she looks like a star, and the reaction is just tears, crying, people going, ‘Oh my God, Oh my God.’ My fans are like: ‘Alright, Ed.’ – Ed Sheeran • I was once asked if I had any ideas for a really scary reality TV show. I have one reality show that would really make your hair stand on end: “C-Students from Yale”. – Kurt Vonnegut • I’d always wanted to do a film than TV show because film is always where my heart has been. I like diving into the character for a few months, and then leaving it behind. I love the idea of that. – Shailene Woodley • I’d love to be on a TV series someday, but I believe you get the jobs that you’re meant to get. If the job that I’m meant to get is another musical or another play or film or TV show, I’m just happy to keep working. – Stark Sands • If by that you mean that I dislike celebrity magazines, prefer food to anorexia, refuse to watch TV shows about models, and hate the color pink, then yes. I am proud to be not really a girl. – John Green • If I did a TV show, it would have to be in North London because I’m a bit of a homebody, and my work takes me away from home enough. But yeah absolutely. Television has never been more exciting than it is now. – Simon Pegg • If I only did TV show, I’d probably not be the happiest girl. I love the show, but I’m an actor and I want to work on different things. TV lasts for so much of the year that you’re just aching to play a different part. And I love movies so much that I want to be a part of as many as I can. – Jane Levy • If you get on a TV show that’s successful, odds are that you’re playing the same character for as many years as the show is running, which can be its own blessing, but it can also be a curse because you’re playing the same thing and that can be tiresome. – Sarah Paulson • If you’re going to do a guest spot on television, they need bodies on those procedural TV shows. You’ve got to keep working, and that’s where a lot of the work is. – William Mapother • If you’re in a popular TV show, you can attract attention, and I like to help focus that on stories that deserve to be told – which is what politicians do. But I would lose my autonomy, and to get things done I would have to compromise and get into the weeds of policy. I don’t know if I’m smart enough. – Tony Goldwyn • I’m a character-driven director, and I tend to fall in love with the characters in my movies and TV shows. – Doug Liman • I’m a guy here to play football. I’m not here for photos or newspapers or TV shows or trophies or awards. I’m not into all that. – Randy Moss • I’m a huge fan of film primarily. But, you can get a great TV show and get attached to it. Making a great film is forever though; so I always want to be part of film. It’s my first love. – Aml Ameen • I’m actually really lazy. I tell myself, “Okay, you work six months out of the year and you have to get up at 4 a.m. …” I’ll relish the downtime by chilling on the couch and watching my favorite TV shows. – Liana Liberato • I’m always feeling like I don’t belong, no matter where I am. So I’m just searching for a family nonstop, and sometimes I find it in the mosh pit, sometimes I find it when I’m doing some French TV show with the president’s wife. – James Hetfield • I’m fortunate enough to act in a TV show that makes me a lot of money so I can pay for my own movies. I don’t have to wait for anybody and that’s more of what I like doing. But I still think that you don’t have to be connected in the industry to make your movie. You just have to write something that is meant to be made cheaply. – Mark Duplass • I’m in a play on Broadway, I have an animated TV show coming up, I have a few movies that just came out. – Neil Patrick Harris • I’m just saying stupid, funny things when I’m hanging out on the TV show. When I’m making music I’m in a completely different zone. – Chanel West Coast • I’m looking for a deal from one of you TV networks to give Snoop Dogg his own hood TV show where I can find America’s hottest hood artists. – Snoop Dogg • I’m not disciplined in terms of scheduling. I work best late at night, but I can’t do that when I’m on a TV show – our hours are roughly 10-6:30, so I have to go to sleep at a reasonable hour. So I’ll sometimes write fiction for an hour or two in the evenings, or several hours on the weekend afternoons – unless I’m actively writing a script for the show I’m working on, in which case there’s no time to write fiction at all. – Nick Antosca • I’m not going to watch two TV shows with vaginas in them unless somebody tells me why they’re different! – Ilana Glazer • I’m obsessed with voices in film. I have this memory of how people say words, even on the most intensely stupid reality TV show. – Jenny Hval • I’m proud of everything I achieved with ‘Idol,’ and away from ‘Idol’ also. It’s just such a different show now to what it was when I was on it. I didn’t even know it was a TV show until the third audition. – Kelly Clarkson • I’m really excited about my TV show. I wrote it with my best friend. – Pell James • I’m scared of watching a TV show about vampires. I can’t fall asleep. – Maurice Sendak • I’m so grateful to be living doing what I love. Whether it’s acting in Films or TV shows or writing and directing my own projects. – Kyle Cassie • I’m used to seeing it, but it’s weird having an Academy Award. You usually only see one of them on the TV show when they give them out, so it’s kind of surreal to have one in your house. – Steven Wright • I’m very grateful for work especially in film industry. It’s highly competitive and there are a lot of people standing behind me jumping at the opportunity to only do one thing, like one movie or one TV show or one episode. – Famke Janssen • In California, they don’t throw their garbage away – they make it into TV shows. – Woody Allen • In France, anyone can use your music on like a TV show or whatever – they don’t need to ask permission. It’s almost like a child when it has its own life. – Thomas Mars • In some ways, a novel isn’t as structurally rigorous as a screenplay or a TV show, which have finite real estate. In a novel, you can more deeply illuminate a character’s interior and get away with digressions. – Howard Gordon • In the middle of Beaches there’s a scene from the “Laverne & Shirley” TV show so they see some history of my work in each film. – Garry Marshall • It is tough, every time. The ensemble is great. I would always ask Andrew, “Is this how Hollywood is? Is this how every TV show and movie is?” And he was like, “No, dude. This is not. Do not get used to this. Be thankful that this is how your first gig is.” – Steven Yeun • It was actually the production group that ended up producing the show for us…Every musician, especially in the hip-hop community, you always make these show recaps or vlogs, and essentially what “Touring’s Boring” was is, we tried to make our vlogs interesting and almost more like a TV show. That’s how we got discovered by TV. – Mike Stud • It was feminism that made it possible for women to go to the Ivy League and women to be astronauts and women to have their own TV shows. What happened, though, was that the generation after feminism, which is my generation, misunderstood what feminism was saying. – Debora Spar • It was such a bigger picture [ Westworld] than what I thought it was. It’s more of a revolution than a TV show. – Evan Rachel Wood • It’s a lot of hard work to do a weekly TV show. It’s certainly not fun. – Michael Moore • It’s a TV show. Only the emotional damage is real. – Steven Moffat • It’s actually much harder to develop a TV show than I had anticipated. – Diablo Cody • It’s also one thing to see a celebrity or some kind of character on a TV show being gay. It’s a totally different thing when you know your husband… not your husband, but your brother or your friend or the dude you hung out in high school was gay. I mean, that is what changes people’s minds, what changes people’s minds. – Andrew Sullivan • It’s fun being on a TV show and not having to wear heels. – Trieste Kelly Dunn • It’s hard to find success and it’s hard to find hit movies or hit TV shows and to stay relevant. I think it’s a very difficult thing for actors, because a lot of us get lost, frankly. – Dylan McDermott • It’s impossible to overvalue the importance of television – both in its serious and less serious functions. It’s one of our most important ways of finding out the truth – and also of changing the world, and finding out what in the world needs changing. It’s also an immense bringer of joy – I learnt how to laugh through television, and now my children and I, every day of every week, share the joy and stupidity of TV shows – they actually make us HAPPY – Richard Curtis • It’s often the case with successful TV shows that they kind of inadvertently live on past their prime. It’s best to leave the audience wanting more. – Vince Gilligan • It’s weird how with a TV show, you don’t have just the one ending – you have the many. – Vince Gilligan • I’ve always been fascinated, obsessed even, with books and TV shows about unsolved murders, cold cases, forensic science, mysteries, and so on. Many times when I get inspiration for my work, it’s from something in one of these books or TV shows, or perhaps some newspaper article about a specific case. – Scott Heim • I’ve always got five or six things that would either make a good feature or TV show. And you just never know. You go and you pitch and it may be exactly what they’re looking for, or they may stop you after two sentences and say, “Oh, we’ve already done something just like that.” – John Sayles • I’ve been careful to keep my life separate because it’s important to me to have privacy and for my life not to be a marketing device for a movie or a TV show. I’m worth more than that. – Lisa Kudrow • I’ve had lots of things that didn’t work out, like TV shows. You learn a lot through mistakes – I learned that you have to be the captain of your ship. Actually, I own my ship. – Pamela Anderson • I’ve never been on a TV show for more than a season and you have to continually keep it interesting and you have to keep it connected, even as you change. – Ian Somerhalder • I’ve only done two other TV shows [instead of Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll], one was Rescue Me and the other was a show called The Job, which was at ABC and only on for two seasons. – Denis Leary • I’ve seen [Donald Trump] appear in a film or a TV show cameo or the tabloids, and he’s a grotesquely distasteful human being and always has been, always made me want to take a shower. But other people fell in love with him as a reality star. So does that mean that the entertainment industry is doing something wrong? I think reality TV answered that question a long time ago: Yes, it’s doing something terribly wrong. But there’s some great reality TV, and I’m not bagging on it completely. – Joss Whedon • I’ve seen [Trump] appear in a film or a TV show cameo or the tabloids, and he’s a grotesquely distasteful human being and always has been, always made me want to take a shower. – Joss Whedon • Josh [Friedman] and I have been friends for years, and he said, “Hey, if you ever want to do a TV show, I can take it over and run it,” and I was like, “Yes!” He’s always been so busy that I never dared to ask that, but it just worked out, time wise, that this was the season where we could probably do it, so I jumped at it. So, even though I’m busy with other stuff, I’m excited to be writing this. – John August • Just concentrate on the performers. Make sure you get the performers, and that’s it. That’s all we need to do.” And I was thinking, “Well what if you do both? Of course the performance is important, the writing is really important. But what if you could have the perfect marriage of making it look really slick as well?” I think that’s kind of what I tried to develop as a style, and Spaced was the first TV show I did where all the elements came together. – Edgar Wright • Knowing the right questions is better than knowing all the right answers” Caleb from Pretty Little Liars (TV Show) – Sara Shepard • L.A. ispolluted. It’s overpopulated. But it is very much home. It was inevitable for me, the moving back. I was living in San Francisco, and Joan broke it off with me, and I needed a place to live. I’d been divorced. And I needed to write movies and TV shows to earn a living. Alimony. All that. So I figured what the hell, I’ll go back to L.A. – James Ellroy • Launching a new TV show is probably one of the most difficult things that a writer can do. – George Meyer • Like we were saying, the fact that the relationships on the show are love-based, and in the sense that I wasn’t aware of how special it was in contrast to a lot of the other TV shows that are on right now. It was our audience members that pointed out the love that you see in the show is special. – Steve Zissis • More American young people can tell you where an island that the ‘Survivor’ TV series came from is located than can identify Afghanistan or Iraq. Ironically a TV show seems more real or at least more meaningful interesting or relevant than reality. – John Fahey • Most people get their politics, obviously, from TV shows about senators or movies about them or… all the day-to-day press and the talk shows. – Judd Gregg • Most TV shows don’t reward you for paying attention. – Matt Groening • Movies, novels, TV shows – these are the water fountains of today. We thirst for stories which speak to us by representing us, but we go to the water fountains in the centre of town looking for that, and we’re turned away, sent to the ghetto. – Hal Duncan • My approach to ‘Star Trek’ was, ‘I know science fiction, and I know screen writing.’ That was very arrogant of me, but you really need to be a little bit arrogant to think that what you have to say is good enough to justify the expense of hundreds of thousands – now millions of dollars – to make an episode of the TV show. – David Gerrold • My boy, that was a TV show. I used a stunt double. I always use a stunt double. Except in love scenes. I insist on doing those myself. – William Shatner • My favorite TV show is probably ‘Glee.’ I’m a Gleek, like everyone – else!Victoria Justice • My tastes in all things lean towards the arty and boring. I like sports documentaries about Scrabble players, bands that play quiet, unassuming music, and TV shows that win awards. In that way, I am an elitist snob. And proud of it. – Michael Ian Black • My TV show had been cancelled; nothing else had gone anywhere; some alliances I had made petered out and nothing came of them and I was looking at a long, long year ahead of me in which there was no work on the horizon, the phone wasn’t ringing. I had two kids, one of them a brand-new baby, and I didn’t know if I would be able to keep my house. – Tom Hanks • My wife is like, You finally get your own TV show, you can have any kind of car you want and you get a darned truck. But my brother and I have the same kind of truck now. – Jeff Foxworthy • My wife says I’m much happier when I’m not a regular on a TV show. – Alan Dale • Nasty is the new normal in Florida. Politics here is very gutterlike. It’s like a very bad reality TV show that still gets very high ratings. – Dan Gelber • Nira Park, who is my longtime producer and friend – I’ve know her since we did Spaced, the TV show – she gave me this script the last day of filming The World’s End. She said, “Take a look at this. It’s filming in London next year, and you might like to look at Jack.” I trust Nira implicitly. – Simon Pegg • Nobody’s talking about movies the way they’re talking about their favorite TV shows. – Steven Soderbergh • Obviously, in this day and age, with the TV shows, there are some really interesting ones. I’m not that interested in going and doing a network show, but like everybody else, trying to find something good. – Scott Speedman • Ok so there’s no TV shows, no movies going on fine, but I love going on stage and performing stand up so my situation is a little better than someone who’s strictly just an actor or actress. – Wanda Sykes • On Michael Moore TV show, when he went to the home of the guy who invented the car alarm and set off all the car alarms on the block… pretty funny. – P. J. O’Rourke • One day it was that I wanted to go make a movie with my kid and then another day it was that I wanted to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro and another day it was that I wanted to sit in the studio and figure something out. All those things manifested themselves into what the TV show was. – Casey Neistat • Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the ’50s. – Dan Aykroyd • People always ask about the transition from TV show to a movie, but it felt like just going to a different school. You don’t really notice the transition, when you’re in the moment. – Shailene Woodley • People are recognizing that I am an entrepreneur and do more than be on a reality TV show. -Kim Kardashian • People on both sides of any conflict believe they are right, whether it’s on a TV show or in the real world. – Mandy Patinkin • People say that you want to be varied in your career, and I’ve done so many things and am very appreciative. But, the one thing I’ve never done and wanted to do was to be a regular on a TV show, where you get 22 weeks of the year to develop and play a character. I’ve done arcs of five or eight episodes on shows, but I’d like to have a character that’s rich enough and deep enough to want to explore and live with for a few years. Playing the same character, but doing different scenes seems very exciting to me. – Jim Piddock • Phil Harris and Pat Boone were once paired as guests on an episode of Andy Williams’ TV show. During a rehearsal break, Harris suggested the three of them go out for a drink. When Boone declined, explaining he did not drink, Harris asked Williams, “Andy, can you imagine getting up in the morning knowing that’s the best you’re going to feel all day?” – Andy Williams • So I do have to work, you know, and I find as many movies and TV shows that I can, because otherwise I wouldn’t have an income. – Tippi Hedren • Some people may contend that there is no image more charming that a child holding a puppy or kitten. But for me that’s a distant second. When I see a child clutching a book… to his or her tiny bosom, I’m moved. Children can possess a book in a way they can never possess a video game, a TV show, or a Darth Vader doll. A book comes alive when they read it. They give it life themselves by understanding it. – Chris Van Allsburg • Some TV shows are like really good novels in that there are enough episodes that you start to have your own feelings about how the characters should act. When the scriptwriters go slightly wrong, when they make the character make a left turn that he or she wouldn’t do, you know enough about the characters to say, “No, that’s not what she would do there. That’s wrong.” You can actually argue with a TV show in a way that you can’t do as much with movie – you inhabit a TV show in the way you inhabit a novel. – Nicholson Baker • Something economically changed. It used to be that you needed 20 million people to watch a TV show for it to be a hit. Now, with just a few million people watching, you’re considered very successful, for a lot of these streaming services, or cable channels. Now, that allows people to do much more creatively ambitious work, because it’s not lowest common denominator. – Judd Apatow • Sometimes directors get hired into TV shows, and it’s so formulaic and they’re a slave to whatever everybody wants them to do. But everyone came in with their own style, and it blended together with the Helix style that was set, and at the same time, they’re bringing their own ideas and their own input. It was really fun working with all of them. – Kyra Zagorsky • Sometimes you see auteur TV shows and movies, and those are great. – Akiva Goldsman • Sony and Nickelodeon knew they wanted to create a TV show that was a platform for a band they would have for Sony. They knew what they wanted, and it took two years of auditions and screen tests and countless people coming in and out the door until they finally settled on the four of us. – James Maslow • Television is competitive now, and the great stories live on television right now. I’m finding that I’m enjoying television more than film, these days. That was my motivation to take a TV show. – Jaimie Alexander • Thanks to NBC News and thanks to the NBC primetime TV network, Donald Trump has been in living rooms for 11 years being who he is. The Donald Trump running for president is not an unknown quantity. The Donald Trump running for president is the Donald Trump everybody’s gotten to know, and quite a lot of people watch those Donald Trump TV shows, The Apprentice and whatever else on there. – Rush Limbaugh • The Baha’i celebrity, or the Belebrity, is a character actor with a big head playing an annoying creep on a TV show. – Rainn Wilson • The bigger budget films only shoot about a page or two a day, so there’s very specific amount of time spent on detail and getting each tidbit exactly how they want it. In a movie or TV show, you shoot eight or ten pages and you aren’t afforded as much time to do each scene. – Dan Payne • The consumer mentality – we like something, what other flavor does it come in? We like that TV show, does it come in a book form? Does it come in a capsule? How about a soup? – Paul Reiser • The headmistress was a very well-respected theater teacher. She taught me what stage left and stage right were, what a director was, and what all these things meant, which was something I had no concept of. She sent me off to drama school, at age 18, and I stayed there for three years. Before I knew it, I was working on a TV show. – Robert Kazinsky • The Netflix brand for TV shows is really all about binge viewing. The ability to get hooked and watch episode after episode. – Reed Hastings • The only thing worse than a crappy TV show which Paddy Chayevsky couldn’t have conceived in his worst nightmare is two megacorps fighting over who thought of the crappy show first. – Judd Apatow • The really great thing about having two TV shows going on at the same time is that I can go to one and say that I have to go and visit the other and then I can just go home and they don’t know. – Matt Groening • The scheduling thing is really weird with TV shows. Certain projects haven’t been able to work out because of the schedule, so some of it is out of your control. You don’t have very many opportunities. There isn’t much time, so you want to make sure you’re going to be doing something that you really feel good about or that you’re going to have a good creative experience doing. You’re taking up vacation time from your job, so you want it to be meaningful. – Ty Burrell • ‘The Simpsons’ from the very beginning was based on our memories of brash ’60s sitcoms – you had a main title theme that was bombastic and grabbed your attention – and when you look at TV shows of the 1970s and ’80s, things got very mild and toned down and… obsequious. – Matt Groening • The thing about working on a TV show is that it becomes, very quickly, all consuming. – Jonathan Nolan • The truth is that we have to, as American citizens, stop thinking that this life that we’re living, the things that we’re dealing with, is some reality TV show. This is real life, real children, real situations. – Stevie Wonder • The wonderful thing about a TV show is if you get picked up for another season, there’s no happily ever after. – Guy Branum • There are many films and TV shows I make where people find themselves in fantastical situations; as often as possible their reactions to it are very normal. – Joss Whedon • There were a lot of lessons of production to be learned. On the page, the biggest thing you learn on any TV show is how to write to your cast. You write the show at the beginning with certain voices in your head and you have a way that you think the characters will be, and then you have an actor go out there, and you start watching dailies and episodes. Then, you start realizing what they can do and what they can’t do, what they’re good at and what they’re not so good at, how they say things and what fits in their mouth, and you start tailoring the voice of the show to your cast. – Ronald D. Moore • There’s a huge demand for my entertainment, and I can’t meet the need. So I decided to try a TV show to reach as many of my fans as possible. – Tyler Perry • There’s two kinds of press that you get when you put out a TV show: The reviews, and the people that just decide what the reviews say. – Louis C. K. • This election ain’t no stinkin’ TV show. – Bradley Whitford • This is the contradiction we have in the media. We love vigilantes: Batman, Tarzan, Green Arrow – the comic books and the TV shows are filled with vigilantes. We love to promote it. Jesus Christ was a vigilante. We admire these people, but we don’t want to be associated with them. – Paul Watson • This whole thing about reality television to me is really indicative of America saying we’re not satisfied just watching television, we want to star in our own TV shows. We want you to discover us and put us in your own TV show, and we want television to be about us, finally. – Steven Spielberg • Those rosy memories we all share are actually memories from our favorite TV shows. We’ve confused our own childhoods with episodes of “Ozzie and Harriet,” “Father Knows Best,” and “The Brady Bunch.” In real life, Ozzie had a very visible mistress for years, Bud and Kitten on “Father Knows Best” grew up to become major druggies, and Mom on “The Brady Bunch” dated her fifteen-year-old fictional son. – Cynthia Heimel • To a certain degree, with a TV show, people are looking for a certain amount of familiarity. You don’t want to pull the rug out, but you also want to keep things fresh and keep changing it up. – Jonathan Nolan • To me, the greatest thing in the world is downloading TV shows on iTunes because there are no commercials, and yet if I were a working stiff, I could never afford to do this. But I don’t even think about money. – Stephen King • Trying to negotiate getting a couple of kids to watch the same TV show requires serious diplomacy. – Dee Dee Myers • TV and film are very different media with different requirements. In a TV show, you have actors and fellow writers and directors, who are interpreting your work. With a novel, you only have ink, words and your reader. – Howard Gordon • TV is such a success nowadays because it gives back in a way that features can’t. If you go to a film, you only get two hours of great storytellers and performers, and you pay top dollar for that. If you’re subscribing to premium channels and you’re getting all of these amazing TV shows, and you’re watching them as you want, where you want, when you want, on what you want, I think that is the “the golden era of TV” in what television shows are offering to audiences. We’re giving them a lot more. It’s quality. – Milo Ventimiglia • TV series, there’s a lot of everybody talking to you and giving you input for the first couple episodes, and then they’re on such a crazy schedule that you get another episode on a Monday, you have to have it done by Friday and it becomes very solitary work usually, TV shows. – Mark Mothersbaugh • Veep is the best and most realistic political TV show out there. – Christopher Michael Cillizza • Way back in 1979, as a guest on a local TV show in Arkansas, then Hillary Rodham was quizzed about not taking her husband’s last name when they got married and keeping her job as a lawyer while being first lady of the state. – Tamara Keith • We did ‘The Simpsons Movie,’ which took almost four years; it was the same people that do the TV show, and it just killed us. So that’s why there hasn’t been a second movie. But I imagine if the show ever does go off the air, they’ll start doing movies. – Matt Groening • We may not have a sample size larger than one, or we may not have unlimited resources – it’s a TV show, and we generally turn these things around in about a week or so. – Jamie Hyneman • We now have a generation of people who in many cases feel that if they become chefs, they’ll get a TV show. They have a signature haircut, a year into the business, or a branding arrangement with a shoe company. I don’t really relate to that. I guess this is the world we live in now. – Anthony Bourdain • What if it was cats who invented technology, would they have TV shows starring rubber sqeaky toys? – Douglas Coupland • What was bizarre, when I was younger, I never watched TV. I would rather watch a movie 100 times than to watch a TV show, just to find another nuance. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve watched ‘On the Waterfront’, just to find a flaw so that I can learn and try to improve my thing. – Vin Diesel • When I did TV shows and my other movies, I never try to do it for anybody. I just do what I think is good no matter what the genre is. – Will Gluck • When I first started writing for television in the seventies and eighties, the Internet didn’t exist, and we didn’t need to worry about foreign websites illegally distributing the latest TV shows and blockbuster movies online. – Al Franken • When I open many books, or most leading women’s magazines, or see almost all TV shows, I don’t find myself at all. I am completely anonymous. My value system is not there. – Bela Karolyi • When I planned my wedding the first time, my ex-husband and I, we were both struggling comics. I had a TV show that had gotten cancelled. Basically, I rented a wedding gown; the reception hall smelled like feet. – Sherri Shepherd • When I’m writing a theme song for a TV show I always think, “What would be Pavlovian where a kid would be in the kitchen, or an adult would be in the kitchen, and they hear the theme song come on and it would draw them back to the other room so that they would watch the show?” – Mark Mothersbaugh • When my TV show, ‘Sports Jobs with Junior Seau,’ assigned me to be a ‘Sports Illustrated’ reporter for a weekend, I didn’t realize I’d have to squeeze it in around another sports job. I had planned to retire from the NFL to enjoy the cushy lifestyle of a full-time reality TV star, but I wound up getting run over by a bull. – Junior Seau • When you do a TV show, the cumulative intimacy you develop with the audience through your characters is pretty profound. It may be the most profound storytelling there is, because the character gets to live and roll around in the audience’s mind week after week. – Howard Gordon • When you do a TV show, there’s always the fear that it will become tired and you’ll know exactly what’s going to happen.- Mads Mikkelsen • When you say, ‘I spent my summers at the Jersey Shore,’ people always say, ‘Oh, really?’ They think of the TV show. So I just say, ‘A cute little harbor town in New Jersey.’ – Taylor Swift • When you take on a TV show, you give trust to people that you really just met. – Katee Sackhoff • When you’re a regular on a TV show, they give you more of a backstory, so with these recurring gigs, you have to make up your own backstory. – Alan Dale • When you’re recording a TV show, you really feel like you’re in a bubble. – Judy Greer • When you’re writing for a TV show, what’s great is that you always know what actor you’re writing to. – Michael Brandt • Whether it’s being a leading man, making TV shows, being with my family, I’ve learned a lot. – Ashton Kutcher • Whoever calls and asks me to do stuff and obviously, with having your own TV show, people want you to get involved. They know you’re a stand-up comedian so they’re always looking for somebody funny to host an event. – Chelsea Handler • Writing for television is a great job. And it’s a job. Most people watch TV and have a comment about one or two moments of an episode – whether they love it or hate it or something in between. To come up with every moment of an entire season of a TV shows is heavy lifting. – Steven C. Harper • Writing pilots is such a specific thing. It’s not even really writing TV shows. A pilot is its own beast. – June Diane Raphael • You [Bill Maher] seem to have done alright with your TV show… I mean, I don’t get a sense… to the extent that they’re boycotting you, it’s because of your other wacky views rather than your particular views on religion. – Barack Obama • You and your scars. Please! You don’t kill youself like this!” I gesture, holding a wrist turned up to the ceiling, then pretending to cut across it with my other hand. “That’s just a cry for help. That’s just attention. Everbody knows that. Cutting across just gets you to the hospital. That’s just from movies and TV shows and stuff like that. You didn’t really try to kill yourself. you just wanted attention, but you screwed up. Try harder next time. – Barry Lyga • You can say “ass,” but you can’t say “asshole.” That’s why I always cringe when a character in a TV show refers to someone as an “ass.” Unless you’re British, calling someone an ass really doesn’t work. But those are the rules of television. You can be a dirtbag, but not a scumbag. – Gilbert Gottfried • You come to America, and, if you do a big TV show, then you can be overexposed, or old, before you’re new. – Chris Hemsworth • You get a kind of familiarity on a set when you’re on a TV show. – Alia Shawkat • You know, a TV show is a slow build. – Ray Romano • You want to put out a TV show? If you have the money to do it on your own, by yourself, and you have a TV network, you can do it by yourself. But the nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That’s how this industry works. 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[kissofthemuses]

fandom: arthurian legend

how about we do that thing where you give me a show/movie/fandom and I’ll tell you:

(Full disclosure, I am not actually well-read on Arthurian Legends (esp not compared to some others here)>_>. Sooo, except some typical, mass media responses. )

my favorite female character

Morgan Le Fay. She’s actually the figure that drew me into the myths.

my favorite male character

Uuummmm....I like Merlin. What can I say, I like the magicy people more than the non-magicy people.

my favorite book/season/etc

Hmmm, book wise, while it’s not necessarily my favorite, I am Morgan Le Fay by Nancy Springer had a big important on me when I was younger.

As far as movies and shows, 1998′s Merlin has always been one I keep going back to. And, naturally I really like BBC’s Merlin. I also really like Starz Camelot (I don’t think it’s particularly well-liked, but, I fell for it okay?! Also (most of) THE CAST ARE ALL BABES! Except Jamie Bower was miscast imo).

my favorite episode (if its a tv show)

Hmmm, of the BBC Merlin? Probably either the one where Morgana takes control of Camelot or the one where she makes friends with that little dragon. (Listen I love her okay?)

As for Camelot probably the one where Merlin goes to get Excalibur made cuz I like the idea of magic having consequences and Merlin not being perfect.

my favorite cast member

Katie Mcgrath, Tamsin Egerton, and Eva Green are fucking goddesses and if you don’t think so, you’re wrong.

my favorite ship

This one is very specific to the adaptations I’m watching. I don’t have an overall favorite. Like in BBC’s Merlin, I actually really like the Arthur/Gwen pairing, and in Camelot it’s Gwen/Leontes. In an ideal world it’d be Arthur/Guinevere/Lancelot.

a character I’d die defending

Morgan.

a character I just can’t sympathize with

Uther. He can fuck off.

a character I grew to love

Um, I don’t think there are any tbh.

my anti otp

I assume this means NOTP? Um, does Morgan/Arthur count? Like I’m sure some out there ship it. Other than that, it’s kind of dependant on the adaptation.