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At VERY best, you might be able to use it as a writing sample (and it better be GREAT) and maybe you'll get hired somewhere. So, be honest, where do you fit into this? The harsh reality is, no, you won't be able to sell it. He got hired to write a pilot for ABC/Disney which was made but didn't go, then another for Warner Bros TV which I don't think was filmed. Josh Schwartz (the OC, Chuck, Gossip Girl) wrote an award-winning script called Providence when he a junior at USC. Lena Dunham gets to create Girls because Judd Apatow loved her indy film Tiny Furniture (of which Girls is basically a spiritual successor) which she wrote, directed and starred in and was nominated for Best First Screenplay at the Indy Spirit Awards. Let's jump to a couple of "young hotshot" examples, maybe you're one of them. See the common trend? They're all experienced writers. They've all worked in TV for years and most of them have run shows before. Weiss may look like he had no credits, but had sold specs to major studios and had done big rewrite work), Oz, Mad Men, all of them. We could go forever, through all the big shows: the Sopranos, Game of Thrones (D.B.
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He was a head writer on the Thick of It and had also been on bunch of other British shows, plus he'd made a Thick of It movie called In the Loop and was nominated for an screenplay Oscar. Veep on HBO comes from Armando Iannuci, who'd basically made the same show in England (The Thick of It). He made a mini series with HBO called "The Corner" that was a precursor to the Wire. Tom Kapinos could create Californication because he was a showrunner on Dawson's Creek for 4 years.ĭavid Simon gets to create The Wire (and Treme) because he wrote the novel for Homicide: Life on the Street, it got turned into a show and he got to write scripts on it. Vince Gilligan could create Breaking Bad because he worked as a #2 on the X-files for nearly 10 years. Look at all the shows on cable channels and look who created them. Those production companies do not pick up scripts from nobodies. Production companies make them, generally with an airing deal. Here's the reality: HBO and Showtime air shows. If you've got the passion and desire to keep writing regardless of whether you sell your pilot or not, then you're on the path and can contemplate committing more fully to what comes next.
If someone reads your script and has interest, they are going to want to read something else you've written. Your feedback/results from those might give you a little better understanding of just where your writing is or needs to go.
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Nickelodeon, Warner Bros, ABC, NBC all have programs that are free and worthwhile to try for. If you really want to see if the script is actually good, do a little research on festivals and writer's programs in LA, and submit to them.
These people aren't just sitting around waiting for the next great pilot to be sent to them, they are literally constantly buried under a pile of scripts from already represented and "green-lit" writers. It's hard enough to get a pilot read with connections, the harsh truth is it's just not going to happen if you're a nobody from middle of nowhere America. Any worthwhile agency or management company will receive hundreds of unsolicited scripts a week, which isn't even including the stack of scripts from their friends/associates/family/anyone and everyone who has some kind of connection to them sitting on their desks already. If they weren't written by an already working writer, they were written by an upcoming stand-up or book author or someone who actually represents a marketable commodity. Look at the pilots that have been green-lit over the last several years. The chances of anyone at an agency actually reading a cold-mailed script without any kind of recommendation or connection whatsoever are less than one percent. Honestly, the next step is deciding if this is something you really want to pursue, because what you're going to need to do is move to either LA or NY and get a job in television or film and start becoming affiliated with people in the business.
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