Marcia Clark‘s best-selling crime novels (GUILT BY ASSOCIATION and GUILT BY DEGREES) featuring L.A. Prosecutor Rachel Knight have been set up at TNT as a one hour series. Clark will Executive Produce with Dee Johnson and Nelson McCormick. Show-runner Johnson will also write the pilot and McCormick is attached to direct. The e-book edition of [...]
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TNT Options Marcia Clark’s Rachel Knight Series
Jul 23, 2012 in Mulholland Authors, Mulholland News, Television
One-Shot Stopping
Jul 11, 2012 in Fiction, Film, Guest Posts, Television, Writing
One of the worst myths created by movies and TV is the one-shot stop. You know how it goes: an action-adventure hero runs into a warehouse filled with bad guys. A gunfight breaks out. The hero runs through a maze of crates and equipment and takes down every bad guy he encounters until he reaches [...]
On Mildred Pierce: A Conversation with Laura Lippman
May 03, 2012 in Books, Guest Posts, Television
Both Laura Lippman and myself are ardent, perhaps obsessive fans of the James M. Cain novel, Mildred Pierce. For just that reason, we both had been avoiding watching the HBO miniseries starring Kate Winslet and Guy Pearce and directed by Todd Haynes. Finally, with the series now on DVD, I surrendered and watched it, as [...]
All About the Bad Guy
Dec 17, 2010 in Books, Guest Posts, Television
A couple of weeks ago, I started watching The Sopranos. I never watched it when it was on television, because at the time everyone else in the world was so over the moon about it. I hate things that other people tell you you should see. It’s the reason I never saw Avatar, and why [...]
The Murders in Memory Lane: Remembering Henry Kane
Nov 22, 2010 in Books, Guest Posts, Television, Writing
Henry Kane’s pretty much forgotten these days, with all his work out of print. You can Google him, as I did, and you’ll unearth a great deal of information that way, some of it true. And you can find copies of his books on eBay and Amazon and other used-book sources. He wrote over sixty [...]
A review of Sky1′s Thorne: Sleepyhead
Nov 09, 2010 in Guest Posts, Mulholland Authors, Television
Sky1 is airing a series of shows based on Mark Billingham’s Detective Thorne books. Mulholland Books will publish a Detective Thorne novel by Mark Billingham, Bloodline, in July 2011. To learn more about the television series visit the mini-site or download the mobile app. I don’t do appointment TV. I used to, when there were [...]
Insulting Your Intelligence (“Just gimme some noiriness”)
Oct 28, 2010 in Books, Film, Guest Posts, Television
I sometimes wonder if the popularity of noir isn’t largely due to the fact that no one seems entirely clear on what the hell it is. Not that a busload of perfectly smart people haven’t ventured a definition or two. A great deal of thought is expended on virtually a daily basis trying to pin [...]
Box Set of Plenty . . .
Sep 22, 2010 in Guest Posts, Television
Form and content. Discuss. No? How about format and content? Or platform and content? The thing is, technology drives behavior, and with constant changes in technology—upgrades, new developments, the occasional revolution—our behavior as consumers of “content” is never the same for very long. An Amazon package arrived at my door the other day: the third [...]
