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Billy Wisse (Editorial Producer) Most of the good things in my life have been the result of luck, so I'm happy to talk about an occasion when perseverance changed things for the better. I had moved from Montreal to Los Angeles in early 1989 with the harebrained plan of getting an agent and selling my poorly crafted screenplays to a major studio.
Nov 9, 2020 · While we mourn longtime “Jeopardy!” host Alex Trebek, who died on Nov. 8 at age 80, we also pause to honor the game show’s admirably constant quotient of Yiddishkeit. Since 1990, Billy Wisse ...
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And on Day 3, it rained. Precipitation in Los Angeles didn’t stop striking writers from turning out in force at key picket locations on the third day of the work stoppage against Hollywood’s major employers. About 75 people were out making the rounds outside Fox Studios shortly after 9 a.m. Picket signs were covered with plastic bags. The sense of ...
James L. Brooks joined the crowd outside Fox Studios, the lot where he has toiled on “The Simpsons,” among other projects, for nearly 30 years. Brooks told Variety he was seriously concerned about the damage that may be done to screenwriting by AI as well as the conflict over how many writers should be required to produce episodic TV. “How many is ...
“Pencils down, fists up” was the chant of the morning outside Netflix’s Hollywood headquarters. Alex Convery, writer of “Air,” told Varietyhe had just turned in the first draft of his next movie when keyboards went quiet. He takes exception with the suggestion that writers were eager to go on strike. “This is simply a consequence of the AMPTP’s unw...
Lisa Ann Walter, co-star of ABC’s “Abbott Elementary,” was outside the studio that producees that sitcom with a picket sign in hand. “We are all in this together and I’m here standing with them,” Walter told Variety. Walter feels the urgency that the WGA has brought to the forefront in the upcoming contract talks that her guild, SAG-AFTRA, will beg...
Day 2 of the WGA strike saw pickets arrive bright and early outside key industry locations in Los Angeles and New York. Many guild members say they have been energized by the organized picketing efforts and the opportunity to compare notes and vent frustrations with fellow scribes. WGA leadership was out in force on Day 1, walking the walk as they ...
Just hours after the Writers Guild of America called for a strike, members started picketing in New York City. The first picket took place at the Peacock NewFronts advertiser presentation on Fifth Avenue, beginning at 1:30 p.m. ET. More than 100 writers and supporters showed up within an hour, with that number swelling to approximately 200 as the d...
The turnout at the Melrose Avenue plant was strong. The crowd included a snow-white pup named Dash who had a sign fashioned around his collar that read: “You’re barking mad if you think we’ll settle.” Another picket sign hoisted in front the studio’s distinctive iron gates read: “We Have Beef.”
The two mega studios in Burbank were encircled by pickets. Outside Disney’s iconic gate, protestors stretched far and wide down Alameda Avenue. A large group milled in front of the main gate in front of the corporate headquarters building featuring the Seven Dwarfs of “Snow White” fame. WGA members and supporters actually continually walked around ...
Bada Bing! No less a literary eminence than “The Sopranos” creator/showrunner David Chase was spotted walking the beat outside the Pico Boulevard plant studio formerly known as 20th Century Fox. Chase also repped for Tony Soprano’s beloved Garden State flag with a Newark M.O.S.T. baseball cap. Count Chase among the WGA veterans who went through the...
“If we don’t get it, shut it down.” That was a popular chant along Ince Boulevard in Culver City outside the citadel of Amazon Studios and Prime Video. By 3 p.m. PT, approximately 200 writers and their supporters (including SAG-AFTRA members) had checked in to the picket line. The crowd was smaller than at other picket sites, but the red placards c...
This week on Inside Jeopardy!: Co-Head Writers Billy Wisse and Michele Loud chat about the process that goes into writing for the Tournament of Champions: https://linktr.ee/insidejeopardy
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Mar 10, 2017 · Trebek and the writers—including Billy Wisse, 54, who’s been the head writer since 2011—are having fun with it. Wisse spoke to SPIN about coming up with the clues, how a 33-season game show...
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Mar 17, 2017 · Jeopardy! head writer Billy Wisse and writer Michele Loud answer the question, as they reveal the step-by-step process the writers use to create the games every day. Not only will you learn what it takes to be a Jeopardy! writer, but you’ll also understand why the writers will never experience the sound of a cowbell the same way again. 1.
Nov 2, 2015 · by Billy Wisse, Jeopardy! head writer Jeopardy!, with 32 years of syndication and millions of weekly viewers, is a cultural touchstone in living rooms across the country. This is due in part to the group of eight writers who create the categories and clues you see on TV every day.
