Ricky Manning
@froonium.bsky.social
TV (mostly sci-fi) writer/producer (Farscape, ST:TNG, &c.); consultant; instructor @ UCLA Extension & ifs filmschule köln. WGA+WGC. He/his. Avatar by Arne Ratermanis.
(sighs) Don't make me tap the sign, I mean the jpg...
November 27, 2025 at 12:49 AM
(sighs) Don't make me tap the sign, I mean the jpg...
Perhaps they've been watching @okbjgm.bsky.social's excellent, all-too-brief TV series MIDDLEMAN?
November 27, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Perhaps they've been watching @okbjgm.bsky.social's excellent, all-too-brief TV series MIDDLEMAN?
Bean there, done that!
November 26, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Bean there, done that!
However, a Farscape / Person of Interest crossover? LET ME AT IT
November 25, 2025 at 11:38 PM
However, a Farscape / Person of Interest crossover? LET ME AT IT
Hates Star Trek Enterprise.
Loves Star Trek Lower Decks.
Loves Star Trek Lower Decks.
November 23, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Hates Star Trek Enterprise.
Loves Star Trek Lower Decks.
Loves Star Trek Lower Decks.
I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again
November 23, 2025 at 3:50 AM
I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again
I didn't realize the new season of Daredevil had dropped today.
November 21, 2025 at 11:02 PM
I didn't realize the new season of Daredevil had dropped today.
...and lousy taste in cats. (but in fairness, we didn't choose Foxy, she chose us, so it's her taste that's suspect...)
November 20, 2025 at 8:48 PM
...and lousy taste in cats. (but in fairness, we didn't choose Foxy, she chose us, so it's her taste that's suspect...)
Murderbought! Foxy, age 20-2/3 but still serving as Media Inspector here at Casa Froon, approves two arrivals from the most excellent, great service, humanitarian-cause-supporting worldbuildersmarket.com : a @marthawells.com (with signed bookplate) and a @nnedi.bsky.social (limited edition deluxe)!
November 20, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Murderbought! Foxy, age 20-2/3 but still serving as Media Inspector here at Casa Froon, approves two arrivals from the most excellent, great service, humanitarian-cause-supporting worldbuildersmarket.com : a @marthawells.com (with signed bookplate) and a @nnedi.bsky.social (limited edition deluxe)!
Post a bird to support @sbworkersunited.org and warn your followers not to buy Starbucks for the duration of the strike.
November 14, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Post a bird to support @sbworkersunited.org and warn your followers not to buy Starbucks for the duration of the strike.
115. Nebari, which (totally coincidentally) is the Japanese word for "bonsai surface roots," and (totally coincidentally) my wife is a bonsai artist. No. 115! Mmm, matter of opinion. Dunno, maybe crispy grolak? Yes, if prepared right.
November 12, 2025 at 6:16 AM
115. Nebari, which (totally coincidentally) is the Japanese word for "bonsai surface roots," and (totally coincidentally) my wife is a bonsai artist. No. 115! Mmm, matter of opinion. Dunno, maybe crispy grolak? Yes, if prepared right.
Superb. Let me know if Childe would like a bit for their very own (or a script, or questions answered, or whatevs)!
November 11, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Superb. Let me know if Childe would like a bit for their very own (or a script, or questions answered, or whatevs)!
Well, this totally makes my day. Please pass along a Froonium-powered "Welcome and enjoy!"
November 11, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Well, this totally makes my day. Please pass along a Froonium-powered "Welcome and enjoy!"
MY NAME IS JOHN CRICHTON
AN ASTRONAUT
AN ASTRONAUT
November 8, 2025 at 11:44 PM
MY NAME IS JOHN CRICHTON
AN ASTRONAUT
AN ASTRONAUT
Or, as (bowling alley owner) Lou said in the ep: "Okay, kids--get to work. And never forget-- when you're facing a seven-ten split, you still got a second ball."
November 8, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Or, as (bowling alley owner) Lou said in the ep: "Okay, kids--get to work. And never forget-- when you're facing a seven-ten split, you still got a second ball."
The moral of the story, I suppose, is "Yea, though the studio and/or the network will do their best to screw things up, don't let them suck the joy out of the process, even if it means seemingly endless rewrites."
November 8, 2025 at 8:37 PM
The moral of the story, I suppose, is "Yea, though the studio and/or the network will do their best to screw things up, don't let them suck the joy out of the process, even if it means seemingly endless rewrites."
-- FOR Outstanding COSTUME DESIGN For A Series (1987)! A first nomination and award for the brilliant Nanrose Buchman, who would go on to nab 4 more noms (most recent: "Perry Mason" 2023) & 1 more award ("The Queen's Gambit" 2021).
November 8, 2025 at 8:37 PM
-- FOR Outstanding COSTUME DESIGN For A Series (1987)! A first nomination and award for the brilliant Nanrose Buchman, who would go on to nab 4 more noms (most recent: "Perry Mason" 2023) & 1 more award ("The Queen's Gambit" 2021).
The cast, the costumers, the composers, the art department--everybody completely got into the spirit of the thing & it worked GREAT. (Special shoutout to Carrie Hamilton & Michael Cerveris, who had AMAZING chemistry!) And -- THE EPISODE WON AN EMMY --
November 8, 2025 at 8:37 PM
The cast, the costumers, the composers, the art department--everybody completely got into the spirit of the thing & it worked GREAT. (Special shoutout to Carrie Hamilton & Michael Cerveris, who had AMAZING chemistry!) And -- THE EPISODE WON AN EMMY --
...even though NOW, for no apparent reason, our characters were firing off slangy 30s dialog & wearing 30s costumes! (& director Win Phelps made so sure to keep up an appropriately lightning-fast 1930s pace that the ep needed two added scenes + a song + a title sequence to fill its running time!)
November 8, 2025 at 8:37 PM
...even though NOW, for no apparent reason, our characters were firing off slangy 30s dialog & wearing 30s costumes! (& director Win Phelps made so sure to keep up an appropriately lightning-fast 1930s pace that the ep needed two added scenes + a song + a title sequence to fill its running time!)
MGM decreed we couldn't do it. Much depression. Then Ira saved the script AGAIN with an idea: "Okay, lose the bookend scenes, put it all BACK into present day, change the character names BACK--but don't change anything else! Leave all the dialog alone." And we did! MGM had no problem with THAT...
November 8, 2025 at 8:37 PM
MGM decreed we couldn't do it. Much depression. Then Ira saved the script AGAIN with an idea: "Okay, lose the bookend scenes, put it all BACK into present day, change the character names BACK--but don't change anything else! Leave all the dialog alone." And we did! MGM had no problem with THAT...