Posts Tagged ‘NBC’
Producer’s POV: New Column Just Launched for Script Magazine!
Friday, March 8th, 2013
How (and Where) Should I Pitch My TV Show? It Depends… Like any other sales activity, you have to consider: What it is you’re trying to sell? What is your actual product? How can you best show it off? Who are you selling it to? Do they even want what you’re trying to sell them? [...]
Tags: ABC Family, bible, cable, IFTA, NBC, networks, pitching, Producer's POV, proposal, Script Magazine, The Writer's Store, TV Land, USA, Writing for TV
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How To Have a Successful Staffing and Development Season
Sunday, February 6th, 2011
If you’re an aspiring television writer, trying to get staffed this season or perhaps (like me), you’ve got an original pilot (or two) you’re shopping, understanding the business cycles can be helpful in planning and executing your strategies. 2011 Staffing and Development Calendar Staffing Timeline
Tags: advertisers, agents, All is Lost, anticipation, aspiring television writer, business cycles, Calendar, CBS, commercial airtime, Development, dilemma, Diversity Program, executing, Executives, expectation, Heather Hale, inciting incident, irony, Jen Grisanti, managers, NBC, network shows, original pilot, outlines, picked up to series, planning, Protagonist, rock and a hard place, series, staffing meetings, staffing season, Staffing Timeline, strategies, studio executive, subtext, surprise, The Good Wife, Tracking Board, Upfronts, White Collar, Writer’s on the Verge, writers rooms
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Writers Talent Development Opportunities
Thursday, October 21st, 2010
Please holler if any of the links are dead or to add any news ones – or share any experiences! ABC Daytime Writing Program: Discovers and employs writers of culturally and ethnically diverse backgrounds interested in Daytime programming writing. ABC Scholarship Grant Program: Scholarship grant program supports new writing, filmmaking and directing talent. For one [...]
Tags: ABC Daytime Writing Program, ABC Scholarship Grant Program, ABC Summer Television & Film Workshop Writers' Track, Alliance for Inclusion in the Arts, American Indian Summer Institute, Cosby Writing Fellowship, Disney, Film Independent, FOX, IAIA, Institute of American Indian Arts, NALIP Latino Writers Lab, NBC, NBC Diversity Initiative for Writers, NHMC Writers Program, Outfest Screenwriting Lab, Project Involve, Screen Writers Lab, Sundance Institute Film Grants & Fellowships, Sundance Institute Native Initiatives, Sundance Institute Screen Writers Lab, The CBS Diversity Institute/Writers Mentoring Program, The National Hispanic Media Coalitions Writers Program, The Walt Disney Studios and ABC Entertainment Writing Fellowship, Tribeca All Access, Warner Bros. Comedy and Drama Television Writing Workshops, WIF Pilot Mentoring Program, Women in Film Mentoring Program, Writegirl, Writer's Initiative, Writers on the Verge
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