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SPRING SEMESTER ROCKS ALREADY!
Chapman TV students hit the ground running with an exciting first week.
Read More >Veteran TV Director Visits Prime Time TV Club
Director Bethany Rooney, whose credits include Desperate Housewives, Private Practice, Beverly Hills, 90210 and St. Elsewhere, shares how she went from Hollywood outsider to one of the busiest directors in television.
Read More >THEY’RE NOT JUST YOUR CLASSMATES - THEY’RE THE PEOPLE YOU’LL DO BUSINESS WITH
They studied TV here - now they're working in TV, doing business with each other.
Read More >“LOST” Actress Visits Prime Time TV Club
Mira Furlan, who played Rousseau on the hit series LOST and Ambassador Delenn on the acclaimed sci-fi series BABYLON 5 gives the inside scoop to the Prime Time TV Club.
Read More >STUDENT INTERVIEW: COURTNEY MOCK
A current Narrative Television student shares her experiences.
Read More >ALUMNI INTERVIEW: ANNE PORTWOOD
Just four months out of school, TBJ grad Anne Portwood has already made it from the mailroom to handling a TV literary agent's desk at WME, one of the biggest talent agencies in Hollywood.
Read More >TV CLUB HOSTS WEB SERIES CREATOR
Dan Williams, creator of the web series Asylum, talks about how he raised money for the series and eventually sold it to BET network.
Read More >CHAPMAN TV PILOTS COMPETE WITH PROS AT FESTIVALS
Student pilots earn major festival recognition in L.A. and New York.
Read More >TV GRADS SCORE HOT JOBS
Less than a month out of school, our TV grads are already conquering Hollywood.
Read More >Chapman TV Alums Dominate Fox News Control Room
Fun video of actress Tiffani-Amber Thiessen (Kelly Kapowski) taking a crack at directing in the Fox News Channel control room--she's in good hands--both guys to her right are Dodge College TV alums, Director, John Duber (class of 2000) and Tech Director, Scotty Anderson (class of 2002).
Read More >WRITER/DIRECTOR RON SHELTON SCREENS NEW PILOT FOR TV CLUB
Acclaimed writer/director Ron Shelton (Bull Durham, Blaze) screens his new TNT pilot and talks about the differences between feature films and TV.
Read More >Professor Ross Brown talks about writing for Internet TV
Professor Ross Brown, who teaches Byte-Sized Television and wrote the book of the same name on creating your own Internet TV series, talks about writing for Internet TV with Writeononline.
Read More >ALUMS SHARE TIPS ON LANDING YOUR FIRST JOB
5 recent alums share the inside story on how to score your first job in film or TV.
Read More >He Already Has an Agent. Now He Wants a Degree in Television From Chapman.
Established producer and teen mogul decides to study TV at Chapman.
Read More >TV CLUB HEARS $#*! WILLIAM SHATNER SAYS
Veteran TV director Steve Zuckerman shares the inside scoop on TV stars he's worked with.
Read More >Chapman TV Alums Rule the Grammys!
Chapman TV alums have a blast working the telecast of music's biggest night.
Read More >Chapman Students Make Documentaries in Singapore
Fly to Singapore, make a documentary, meet new friends.
Read More >DODGE COLLEGE DOCUMENTARY STUDENTS ON THE TOP OF AFRICA - IN 3-D!
8 students and 2 profs (myself - Jeff Swimmer and Jurg Walther) summited Mount Kilimanjaro over Inter-Term, and shot a doc in 3-D about the expedition.
Read More >CHAPMAN WRITES THE BOOK ON WEB SERIES
Chapman TV Prof's groundbreaking book on creating your own web series now on sale.
Read More >WRITER/PRODUCER SHAUN CASSIDY SPEAKS TO TV CLUB
The acclaimed television writer/producer/creator shares his experiences with our students, including his transition from teen idol to mature adult showrunner.
Read More >MERYL STREEP ON A WEB SERIES?
You know web series are here to stay as mainstream entertainment when Meryl Streep appears in a web series.
Read More >WANT YOUR OWN TV SERIES? START A BLOG
In the 1980s and 90s, networks turned to standup comics to find new series ideas. Now they turn to the Internet.
Read More >Upcoming Trips, Guests to the BJ Program
Just wanted to alert y'all to some cool guests and trips we have coming up all in the 4-5 weeks before the Thanksgiving. Hal Eisner, longtime LA (Fox11) reporter and President of the APTRA is here Tuesday morning to regale BNews I classes, critique their stories. Eisner and APTRA run a famous reporting academy http://www.aptra.com/ that draws some 60-70 top news pros on a weekend in December.
TV - IT’S ALL ABOUT COLLABORATION
Some colleges breed a culture of competitive back-biting. At Chapman, TV students learn that working together is the name of the game.
Read More >HERE’S TO STEPHEN CANNELL
This prolific and brilliant television writer was also a great friend to our Chapman TV and Screenwriting students over the years.
Read More >DOC TALK AROUND THE CLOCK AT WESTDOC - SANTA MONICA, SEPTEMBER 2010
TBJ posting about Westdoc documentary conference, by Professor Jeff Swimmer
Read More >STUDENT INTERVIEW: KIRA INNES
Current student Kira Innes shares her inside view on being a Television major at Chapman.
Read More >HISTORY IS FUN…WHEN IT’S HISTORY OF TELEVISION
Gotta love class when it consists of watching clips of The Beatles on Ed Sullivan and the classic I Love Lucy episode where she does the Vitameatavegemin commercial.
Read More >ANOTHER CHAPMAN TV SUCCESS STORY
'07 broadcast journalism grad Madelyn Jarrett gets promoted to weekend anchor on the NBC affiliate in her hometown.
Read More >DREAM IT, SHOOT IT, BROADCAST IT
The new school year is about to start and for Chapman TV students, the possibilities are limitless.
Read More >RISING ABOVE NOMINATED AT NYTV FESTIVAL
We're two for two! For the second year in a row, our flagship TV project, a full-length drama pilot, has been nominated as Outstanding Drama at the prestigious New York TV Festival.
Read More >WRITER’S BLOCK? NO SUCH THING IN TV
Writing for television teaches you to be creative on demand.
Read More >ALUMNI INTERVIEW: MILES LEICHER
Find out what one recent Television grad is doing in the business now, an dhow his experiences at Chapman helped him get there.
Read More >CHAPMAN TV WRITER WINS $10,000 HUMANITAS PRIZE
Clay Keller scores major award for his pilot "Dinner Theater."
Read More >MY FIRST JOB IN TELEVISION: STAND-IN FOR A DOG
Congratulations - you're in show biz! Now get down on your knees and bark.
Read More >ALUMNI INTERVIEW: MOLLY WILSON
Find out how Chapman Television grad Molly Wilson has launched her career at Warner Bros. Television.
Read More >WHAT’S A SHOWRUNNER: PART 2
Want to know what it's like to run a hit TV series? Check out this round table discussion with some of TV's top writer/producers from shows including Family Guy, Glee, The Big Bang Theory, Nurse Jackie, Entourage and Modern Family.
Read More >A TV SERIES BASED ON TWITTER POSTINGS? AT CBS???
As crazy as it may sound to some, building a sitcom around a series of Twitter postings really isn't all that different from something the networks have done for decades: building a sitcom around a stand-up comedy act.
Read More >Cross Cultural Film-Making
An exchange program between Chapman and Seoul Institute of the Arts is about to begin!
Read More >CREATING YOUR OWN TV SERIES
Want to write and produce your own network-quality comedy or drama? Then Chapman is the place for you!
Read More >Chapman Alum Realizing His Field of Dreams
Jeff Levering (TBJ, 2005) is one of our alums working in sports. Jeff chose the hyper-competitive field of play-by-play, passing on easier paths with Fox Sports and the NFL Network. And in a few short years Jeff has made it to second base, landing the play-by-play gig with the Springfield Cardinals, the AA-affil of the St Louis Cardinals. Here's a recent article from Jeff's new hometown about the "new guy" in Springfield.
Read More >TV AND GETTING LUCKY
You need a little luck in show biz - but you have to your part first and get prepared.
Read More >TOP 10 THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT WRITING A TV SPEC
Just what it sounds like - the inside scoop on do's and don't's of writing a TV spec.
Read More >THE INTERNET AND THE FUTURE OF TV
TV is headed to the Internet, and we're teaching cutting-edge courses to prepare our students for that brave new world.
Read More >WHAT’S A SHOWRUNNER?
Find out who's the creative boss on a TV show...and how you can become that person.
Read More >GOT JOBS? WE DO!
Recent TV and film grads share the inside story on how to land your first job in the biz.
Read More >RULE #1 ON BREAKING INTO THE TV BIZ
The secret to successfully breaking into TV as a writer, director, producer or whatever is...
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