Saturday, March 05, 2005

My initial impression was that you can't get a network to look at your series pitch unless you're an Exec Story Editor at a minimum. But Joanie at Why Television Sucks is writing about getting hired by the network to turn inexperienced writers' stuff into good TV. Which suggests that, even if they won't let you showrun your series idea, they may buy it from you and hand it off to someone with more experience. More info if and when I'm able to scare up some answers on this intriguing question...

Labels: pilot

5:07 PM

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She mentioned working on a pilot for someone who was new to writing for TV; that doesn't mean they're new to writing for TV in general. JJ Abrams and Joss Whedon had no experience in TV when they created Felicity and Buffy the Vampire Slayer respectively, although they'd both written movies. Granted, that was for the WB. I'm too lazy to look at the current pilot orders but I believe that several of them are from people known for writing feature films only...

By  Peter, at 10:32 PM  

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