Hello and welcome. My name is John August.

My name is Craig Mason.

You'll listen to episode 706 of Script Notes. It's a podcast about screenwriting and things that are interesting to screenwriters.

Today on the show, television has changed a lot over the last decade, but has it changed for the better, for the worst, or is it a mix?

We'll talk about TV as experienced by viewers and by writers like Craig, working in the medium. Yeah. Then we'll answer some listener questions. And in our bonus segment for premium members, Craig, let's talk coffee. Oh, you just have some coffee. Yeah. And I would say if you think screeners have strong opinions about formatting, you should hear some of them complain about coffee. Well, I think he said the key word there, just complain. Yeah. God, screenwriters complain a lot. That's all we do. We sit around and we complain. And you can hear some of those

complaints live at the Austin and Film Festival. Segway, man. So, reminder that we're going to be at the

Austin Film Festival. A couple things on the calendar here.

Thursday, October 24th is the Open Day Night Party that Highland Pro my company is hosting. So come see us there. Drew will be there. Drew's a big draw. You can see Drew in person. Yeah. Yeah. I think people... Pull them from behind the mic right up front there. People, do they want to touch the hem of your garment?

Everywhere I go.

So, I think people... Pull them from behind the mic right at the front there? People, do they want to touch the hem of your garment? Everywhere I go. So the opening up parties at the bar at the Driscoll, and like, that's a crowded space. Yeah. Now, the Driscoll had sort of become a non-participant because they basically kicked the whole place out. I wonder why. I wonder what happened. I think it was money and mayhem. They may also have some of doing remodeling. Driscoll is also a cool old hotel, but it was kind of a weird fit in terms of space. Yeah, yeah, it was. But that bar is... It's great for hanging out. But it's bananas. It's It's crazy. Friday, we're hosting a Highland keynote at 1045. We're showing off a new feature for Highland. But Craig, you at that same time are working with Alec Berg to talk about. Oh, yeah. Alec Berg and I are returning to do a second chapter of a panel we did years ago. Everything, everyone is you about screenwriting is wrong in which we go through all the advice you're given. Like for instance, write what you know

and we explain why that's just wrong. It's very freeing. I have to say, you come there and you get

liberated because if you're going and you're going to be at these panels, you're going to hear a lot of what you're supposed to do. And then you come to our panel and we set you free from all of it.

absolutely you gotta do none of that yeah that night script notes 9 p.m script notes live and so we're back in the big room and we'll have special guests

we'll do a couple things we'll have some giveaways of the screen notes galley so

um some of the're back in the big room and we'll have special guests we'll do a couple things we'll

have some giveaways of the screen notes galley so these are some of the first people on earth

i will add one and a half glasses of wine i will have had a nap which will be great oh that's nice

yeah naps are not yeah saturday we have a script notes live three-page challenge at 445 pm And so when we do the live three-page challenge, the best part is the people come up on stage and we actually get to talk to them about their script and why they wrote it and what they're doing. And so we're probably a little bit nicer because the person is in the room. So much. So. Although I try to not be. Yeah. I really do. Try to be like, give them information that they need. Yeah. I mean, I'm personally nice, but yeah, I'm not going to hold back too much. So for the three-page challenge that's live at Austin, it's the normal link you submit your scripts. So john august.com slash three-page all spelled out. But there's a special tick box on there now saying,

I will be in person at the Austin Film Festival. So tick that box if you're going to be there.

Yeah. And then Drew will know to look through like just those ones for the pool of entries for

this. You'll probably get four or five. Just a couple. Just a couple. Yeah. So you just to pick two

of three. Two. Yeah. Easy. And we'll probably have a special guest up there reading through these with us. We usually do. We usually do. Someone's smart and great. Somebody smart. It's fantastic. So come join us at the Austin Film Festival if you get a chance to. We don't come every year, but we come most years and it's a good good fun time. This past week, I went and visited the Entertainment Community Fund,

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