Write to TV

Learn to craft smart, original scripts and teleplays for a variety of television formats, including comedy, animation, drama, movies of the week, pilots, reality television, TV news magazine, and children's programming. Industry-veteran Martie Cook provides you with checklists, sample outlines and treatments for each format, sample script pages, war stories from writers and executives, a sample query letter to introduce finished script pages to agents, and countless other invaluable tools that will help you avoid common pitfalls. Jay Leno, Mike Walace, Norman Lear, Paul Haggis and dozens of other luminariescontribute their wisdom as well, lifting the veil on the realities of working in the industry. New to this edition:* A brand new chapter on webisodes* A widely expanded section on developing a pilot* New interviews and new showsexamples* Expanded coverage of character development, writing dialogue, and resouuces for writers, such as competitions, associations, festivals, etc