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TV writing is a realm where the writer can become just as popular as the show they create. While there are fundamental similarities to any genre of screenwriting and script writing, writing for television is its own area of specialty.
If you’ve ever dreamed of writing a TV series, we’ve rounded up a bunch of books that need to be on your reading list. Even if you already work in television, or are thinking about writing a screenplay, you’ll find some useful information in the titles below. From tips on spec pilots, spec scripts, writing compelling stories, developing characters, cast size, creating shows for streaming services, and getting your script in the hands of producers,...
TV writing is a realm where the writer can become just as popular as the show they create. While there are fundamental similarities to any genre of screenwriting and script writing, writing for television is its own area of specialty.
If you’ve ever dreamed of writing a TV series, we’ve rounded up a bunch of books that need to be on your reading list. Even if you already work in television, or are thinking about writing a screenplay, you’ll find some useful information in the titles below. From tips on spec pilots, spec scripts, writing compelling stories, developing characters, cast size, creating shows for streaming services, and getting your script in the hands of producers,...
- 4/27/2021
- by Latifah Muhammad
- Indiewire
Exclusive: In a competitive situation, At Ease, a single-camera comedy from writers Josh Bycel & Jonathan Fener (ABC’s Happy Endings), Jerry Bruckheimer TV and Warner Bros. TV, has gone to NBC with a put pilot commitment. At Ease is a documentary-style comedy about the the relationships, jobs, bosses and social lives of a group of young people who happen to live and work on an active military base in the middle of a desert country that is just coming out of a war. The project, whose setup is reminiscent of one of greatest sitcoms of all time, M*A*S*H, is inspired by real-life experiences of retired U.S. Navy officer Dan Conley and U.S. defense contractor Aaron Hendricks, who serve as consulting producers, along with Emerson College screenwriting professor Martie Cook, who brought the idea to Bruckheimer. Bycel and Fener came on board to write via a...
- 9/19/2012
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
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