Television writers


David Letterman’s boys’ club: a former Late Show writer tells all

In the wake of the David Letterman blackmail and sex scandal, one of the few women to ever write for Letterman dishes the dirt on the sexist and sexually-charged working environment in a tell-all piece for Vanity Fair

Rowe vs Australian writers

News that former SBS Independent head Glynis Rowe is being funded by SBS to produce a crime series using UK and US writers will come as no surprise to those Australian writers who had dealings with her.

Hollywood’s striking writers win the battle, lose the war

American film and television writers threw down their artfully-worded signs and went back to work yesterday. But have they done more harm than good, asks TV writer Peter Mattessi?