Tv pilot contest 2015
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Read more TV Pilots 2015: The Complete Guide Here’s a closer look at Pilot Season 2015 by the numbers.
On the studio side, ABC again led the pack while 20th Century Fox - entering its first pilot season with co-presidents Gary Newman and Dana Walden also overseeing the network - was up one but good enough for second place (up from fourth) with sales to outside networks CBS, NBC and ABC.
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Also notable: The number of projects ordered straight to series (or with a series commitment penalty) stands at six, down from a whopping 15 last season after direct pickups The Club, Hieroglyph and Emerald City all were canceled before their respective debuts. NBC featured the biggest drop-off year-over-year as the comedy-starved network (half-hour pilots are down four) follows its midseason strategy with a focus on drama (even). ScreenCraft has a proven track record for getting writers signed with managers, agents, and staffed in writing rooms.Overall orders are down across the board: Total pickups are off 10 and nearly evenly split between comedy and drama with potentially one, maybe two more orders to come this season. The Grand Prize Winners will also be welcomed to the ScreenCraft Writer Development Program and receive personal introductions and calls with one or more top Hollywood literary manager(s) who are looking for talented emerging TV writers.
Each Grand Prize winner will receive from their respective mentor: a personalized round of notes, virtual meeting, and project development insight. One by Anna Konkle (Pen15), one by Katherine Collins (Lost in Space, Handmaid's Tale), and one by Lisa Zwerling (The Rook, When We Rise, Betrayal). As part of an overall deal with ABC Studios, Zwerling executive produced Betrayal and co-executive produced FlashForward.ģ Grand Prize winners will be selected for this year's competition. Zwerling, who got her start on the NBC series ER, previously had an overall deal with Universal TV and wrote drama project Midnight Sun, which went to pilot at NBC starring Julia Stiles. Writer-producer Lisa Zwerling (Betrayal) of Carpool Entertainment has signed an overall deal with Universal Television, a division of NBCUniversal Content Studios, to develop, write and executive produce programming for network, cable and streaming platforms. In 2015, Katherine joined the writing staff of NBC’s Blindspot before becoming a writer and producer on all three seasons of the Netflix series, Lost in Space, Katherine is currently a writer and co-Executive Producer on The Handmaid’s Tale. She went on to write for TV with Endgame Primeval: New World and Motive. The series won the Gotham Award for Breakthrough Series and was nominated for four primetime Emmy's, three WGA Awards, and three Critics Choice Awards.Ī screenwriting graduate of UBC, York University, and the CFC, Katherine spent her early years writing while punching the clock at Canada’s largest private investigation firm. She made her directorial debut in the second season. Anna Konkle is the co-creator and co-star of the critically acclaimed Hulu series “Pen15,” produced by Odenkirk Provissiero and The Lonely Island.