MEMOIRS OF A HOLLYWOOD UNKNOWN, BOOK TWO

Awards & Accolades Our Verdict GET IT FIVE DECADES WRITING, PRODUCING, AND SURVIVING IN HOLLYWOOD: KIDS’ SHOWS by Terrence McDonnell ‧ RELEASE DATE: today A funny and lively collection of tales about toiling in the Hollywood trenches. Awards & Accolades Our Verdict GET IT The true stories of a writing team working on kids’ programming in Hollywood. In these pages, McDonnell continues to recount his Hollywood adventures alongside his writing partner, Jim Carlson, spanning the 1970s to the 1980s. The author goes into great detail about each project, this time concentrating on children’s programming and entertainment. He describes the shows, puts them in context of the larger industry, breaks down the individual episodes he wrote, and dishes some behind-the-scenes dirt when he’s got a good story to tell. Many of these projects are shows likely to be unknown to most readers—series like the SF cartoons MASK or Spiral Zone—but his editorial commentary still contains plenty of intriguing tidbits. Spiral Zone, for example, was based on a toy line for boys, and McDonnell notes it was darker than anything he and Carlson had ever written for animation: “Based on the show’s premise,” h...