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Among the most successful and longest-running television shows in history, it averaged more than 30 million viewers per week in its prime, was a staple of the CBS Sunday night lineup for a decade. In syndication , the series is still successful throughout the world.
The series received three nominations in the Outstanding Drama Series category at the Emmys, it was won twice. After the series finished in , four TV movies were released between and In , a point-and-click video game was released for the PC platform, followed in by a sequel. A spin-off book series continues publication at present. Series producers Peter S. Fischer , Richard Levinson and William Link thought Lansbury would be perfect for the part of Jessica Fletcher but did not think that she would be interested in a television series. When she made it known she would be available if the right project came along, the trio of creators sent her the script and immediately, Lansbury felt she could do something with the role of Jessica Fletcher.
It made Lansbury, known for her motion picture and Broadway stage work, a household name for millions of television viewers; the title comes from Murder, She Said , the title of a film adaptation of Agatha Christie's Miss Marple novel from Paddington. The show revolves around the day-to-day life of Jessica Fletcher, a childless, retired English teacher who becomes a successful mystery writer. Despite fame and fortune, Jessica remains a resident of Cabot Cove, a small coastal community in Maine , maintains her links with all of her old friends, never letting her success go to her head.
Exterior shots of Cabot Cove were filmed in California ; the fictional "Cabot Cove" name for the series' coastal town was derived from the name of an actual bay harbor inlet in Kennebunkport , located near the town's center, on the road where motels and lobster shack dives are located. The show starts with a preview of the episode's events, with Jessica stating: "Tonight on Murder, She Wrote By piecing the clues together and asking astute questions, she always manages to trap the real murderer.
Murder occurred with such regularity in her vicinity that the term "Cabot Cove syndrome" was coined to describe the constant appearance of dead bodies in remote locations. Indeed, if Cabot Cove existed in real life, it would top the FBI's national crime statistics in numerous categories, with some analysis suggesting that the homicide rate in Cabot Cove exceeds that of the real-life murder capital of the world. Jessica's relationship with law enforcement officials varies from place to place.
Both sheriffs of Cabot Cove resign themselves to having her meddle in their cases.
However, most detectives and police officers do not want her anywhere near their crime scenes, until her accurate deductions convince them to listen to her. Some are happy to have her assistance from the start because they are fans of her books. With time, she makes friends in many police departments across the U. At the start of season eight, more of the stories were set in New York City with Jessica moving into an apartment there part-time in order to teach criminology. In August , Lansbury expressed weariness of her commitment to the series as she was not sure, at 63, that she could continue at the pace now required of her.
Thus, She Wrote went into its fifth season that fall with the distinct possibility that it would cease production at the end of it and the series finale would air in May A solution was worked on, which enabled Lansbury to continue but give her time to rest; this enabled some secondary characters to get significant stories.
For the next two seasons, Lansbury reduced her appearances in several episodes, only appearing at the beginning and the end, to introduce stories starring several friends of Jessica, like PI Harry McGraw, reformed thief Dennis Stanton or MI5 agent Michael Hagarty. The "experiment" ended in The next year, Lansbury took on a more extensive role in production as she became one of the series' executive producers.
By the end of the —95 season, She Wrote's 11th season, Lansbury again was considering retirement due to her advancing age. Ghostwriter A ghostwriter is hired to write literary or journalistic works, speeches, or other texts that are credited to another person as the author.
Celebrities, participants in timely news stories, political leaders hire ghostwriters to draft or edit autobiographies, magazine articles, or other written material. In music, ghostwriters are used to write songs and instrumental pieces. Screenplay authors can use ghostwriters to either edit or rewrite their scripts to improve them.
There is a confidentiality clause in the contract between the ghostwriter and the credited author that obligates the former to remain anonymous. Sometimes the ghostwriter is acknowledged by the author or publisher for his or her writing services, euphemistically called a "researcher" or "research assistant", but the ghostwriter is not credited. Ghostwriting occurs in other creative fields.
Composers have long hired ghostwriters to help them to write musical songs. Ghosting occurs in popular music. A pop music ghostwriter writes a melody in the style of the credited musician. In hip hop music, the increasing use of ghostwriters by high-profile hip-hop stars has led to controversy. In the visual arts, it is not uncommon in either fine art or commercial art such as comics for a number of assistants to do work on a piece, credited to a single artist. However, when credit is established for the writer, the acknowledgement of their contribution is public domain and the writer in question would not be considered a ghostwriter.
A consultant or career-switcher may pay a ghostwriter to write a book on a topic in their professional area, to establish or enhance credibility as an'expert' in their field. Public officials and politicians employ "correspondence officers" to respond to the large volume of official correspondence. A number of papal encyclicals have been written by ghostwriters. A controversial and scientifically unethical practice is medical ghostwriting, where biotech or pharmaceutical companies pay professional writers to produce papers and recruit other scientists or physicians to attach their names to these articles before they are published in medical or scientific journals.
Some university and college students hire ghostwriters from essay mills to write entrance essays, term papers and dissertations. This is considered unethical unless the actual ghostwriting work is just light editing.
Ghostwriters are hired for numerous reasons. In many cases, celebrities or public figures do not have the time, discipline, or writing skills to write and research a several hundred page autobiography or "how-to" book. If a celebrity or public figure has the writing skills to pen a short article, they may not know how to structure and edit a several hundred page book so that it is captivating and well-paced.
In other cases, publishers use ghostwriters to increase the number of books that can be published each year under the name of well-known marketable authors, or to release a topical book that ties in with a recent or upcoming newsworthy event. Ghostwriters will spend from several months to a full year researching and editing nonfiction and fiction works for a client, they are paid based on a price per hour, per word or per page, with a flat fee, a percentage of the royalties of the sales, or some combination thereof.
However, the recent shift into the digital age has brought some changes, by opening newer markets that bring their own opportunities for authors and writers—especially on the more affordable side of the ghostwriting business. One such market is the shorter book, best represented at the moment by Amazon's Kindle Singles imprint: texts of 30, words and under; such a length would have been much harder to sell before digital reader-technologies became available, but is now quite acceptable.
Writers on the level of Ian McEwan have celebrated this recent change for artistic reasons. It was once financially impractical for publishers to produce such novella-length texts. So, with its appearance the starting price for the professional book writer has come down by about half, but only if this shorter format makes sense for the client. On the upper end of the spectrum, with celebrities that can all but guarantee a publisher large sales, the fees can be much higher. There is the consideration of differen.
Fletcher is a best-selling author of an English teacher and congresswoman. Guinness World Records called her the "most prolific amateur sleuth". Jessica's ancestors hailed from County Cork, Ireland , she has two sisters. Her brothers are Marshall, a doctor, Martin. Jessica's maiden name was MacGill, inspired by Angela Lansbury's mother's real maiden name. Before she met Frank she went to College in New Hampshire , to become a journalist. Cabot Cove is a town of 3, inhabitants near the ocean. Based on the number of murders that occur in a given season of the series, the town seems to have one of the highest murder ratios of any town or city; this has been remarked on in the series by the town sheriff, Mort Metzger.
He noted in season 5.