Screen Writing

Home Box Office (HBO) is an award-winning cable television channel that is broadcast to more than 40 million U.S. subscribers, according to its parent company, Time Warner Inc. The company does...

Given the proliferation of prequels, sequels, remakes and poorly constructed plots that continue to make their way into film and television production these days, it's not surprising that a lot of...

Chances are, if you have a writer friend, he or she will ask you at some point to give feedback on a script. Some writers are looking for little more than a pat on the head for a job well done. ...

The Hollywood writer’s strike is really dragging on. One day the word on the street is that the strike is going to end next week. Another day the word might be that the strike will last until...

Because the single most important task of running a TV show is delivering scripts, showrunners are almost always writers who have earned the title of executive producer and are in charge of...

On a TV series, a writer-producer is any writer who has a title with the word producer in it. Current titles include co-producer, associate producer, producer, supervising producer, co-executive...

Staff is the hierarchy of writers that writes a TV Show, with the showrunner at the top. Lower on the totem pole is the staff writer. Staff writer is a specially defined entry-level position with...

If a producer hires you to write a script, he is essentially conceding the fact that you are better and he cannot do it himself. Despite this, producers will tend to to suggest many changes to a...

If you find yourself thinking, "I would've done that differently" when watching a television show or a film, you can turn your ideas into a marketable screenplay. The Internet has opened the...

A brief step-by-step outline for writing and pitching your idea for a tv show.

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