Attached Link: http://www.rain-street.org/fightcrime.htm

A long time ago, comedian Bob Newhart wrote a bit about this kind of thing. The premise was that IF scientists ever decided to test the "infinite number of monkeys" theory, some gaggle of poor schlubs would have the god-awful job of checking on the monkeys to see if they ever ACTUALLY write a classic. As I recall, Newhart took the role of one of these poor guys talking to his buddy on a walkie-talkie: "Hey, wait a minute, Harry. I think one of them finally came up with something here. Let me see: 'To be or not to be? That is the kwivoarkisnjammmign' ... Nah, forget it, Harry. False alarm." But if you really do want to worry about something (particularly if you're picthing an action-adventure TV script to the network suits next Tuesday), then you ought to check out the log line generator at the "They Fight Crime" site. As I described it to someone recently, it was amusing for the first five minutes. Then it made me sad. Then it got just plain scary because I think half of that crap is actually going to end up on the air.

I've been using Final Draft 5 for a few years now and haven't had any problems. Haven't bothered to upgrade, but I understand the current version will output a .pdf of the finished script, which is probably a good thing. Price to functionality ratio is okay. It's not exactly a "knock your socks off" piece of software, but it does what it's supposed to do without complaining too much. If you're looking to get your episodic TV or theatrical film script into proper format, Final Draft works just fine. (It doesn't do side-by-side AV format, though. I think the same company makes a separate program for that.) On the annoying side, however, my FD5 still uses the old "Place the CD in the Drive" (which is the Poor Man's dongle, I guess) form of copy protection. No disk = no save features. Don't know if FD6 does the same thing. Could be a major pain in the butt on a computer with a really small hard drive. I'm told, however, that most people nowadays would have the smarts (and the disk space) to image the CD and keep it installed in a Virtual Drive.