8/3/2023 0 Comments Writing a tv pilot![]() Aren't those cases waiting to be turned into dozens of episodes of a legal or police procedural series? Every time you talk to her, she's working on another real-life case full of pathos and drama. Maybe your cousin is a lawyer for a city agency that provides counsel for Family Court. (Or an episode of CSI Miami, if it turns out one of you kills the other.) And just like that, you've got an idea brewing for a comedy series. You think, hmmm, I wonder what that would be like? And that leads you to think about what kind of problems you'd have working with your mother. ![]() You read the paper- and please, let me recommend that you do read a newspaper before they are all gone-so, you read an article in, say The New York Times, about a thirty year old guy who got downsized and started a baking company with his mom. You still might discover a character or a situation that could spark a series. Okay, you're not David Letterman and you don't have your own talk show. Ray Romano does a very funny routine about his family on your talk show and you think there may be a series there If you've been circling around the idea of writing a pilot but haven't been able to put your landing gear down, here's a list that may give you reason to put your hands on the keyboard and start typing.ġ0. The rest, as they say, is Emmyland! And now, everybody wants to read an original pilot. ![]() ABC, which was experiencing a little desperation of its own that year, hovering as they were at the bottom of the ratings with no hot prospects in their development pipeline - picked it up and put it on the air. (I did it anyway – tell you more about that later)īut all that changed in 2004 when Marc Cherry, a veteran TV writer experiencing a downturn in his career (he'd moved in with his mother and was sleeping on her couch in Orange County), looked around at suburbia and wrote Desperate Housewives ON SPEC. ![]() Up until about five years ago, it was considered crazy or just plain clueless to write a pilot that wasn't commissioned by a network – nobody would read it, no agent would consider looking at it. Whether you're an established film/TV writer or an aspiring one, you've heard it – everybody in town has said it – you should write a spec pilot. ![]()
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