BSG Podcasts: My New Year's Resolution ...

... is even more screenwritery goodness. But hey, I'm still carrying the extra twenty pounds from last year, so my track record's not great.

Even so, our friend Denis reminds us that Ron Moore's Battlestar Galactica podcasts are up on iTunes (also here). Episodic commentary? Spiffy, yes, but even more amazingly, he threw a recorder into the writer's room while they broke the end of Season Two. That shows an enormous amount of trust in both the writers and the audience. Personally, I cannot imagine a recorder in any of my writer's room, primarily because my beloved actors would be distressed at finding out how often they're called "theFUCKINGactors" or alternatively "the camera meat." If you want to write television, this chance to sample the room process -- the most weirdly indescribably element of TV -- is invaluable.