Get a FREE Downloadable 5-Page Season Mapping Checklist, Arcs & Mythology Document & 2 Pitch Deck Examples!

When pitching a TV series to a collaborator or buyer perhaps the most important thing they are looking for is the sense that your series has sustainability, that it can stay engaging and carry an audience for several episodes or seasons. Without this, your series will not be profitable, and buyers will not be interested in pursuing it. In addition, if you don’t have a sense of where your show is going, it’s difficult to write a successful pilot script, since the pilot is supposed to launch your series, to point the way toward the journey you plan on taking with your characters.

So how do you map out your upcoming seasons in a pitch bible or deck? How do you condense the seasons into summary form so it’s easy to understand on the page? What plot points and character points do you have to hit? How much detail should you put down for season one – and how many seasons should you map out at all? What about “case-of-the-week” episodic series, or mini-series and limited series? And what if anything should you say in a verbal pitch?

Helping you navigate all these decisions is one of Stage 32's most popular educators, Anna Henry. Anna is a seasoned development executive who's clients have written for HBO, Amazon, Starz, NBC and more. She has also taught TV story structure for the Stage 32 + Netflix TV Content Creation Program. 

In this webinar Anna will help you tackle mapping out your TV seasons. She will talk about mapping out your series in broad strokes with key specifics. She will address what to reveal and what to leave out, and how to organize your story arcs. You will see a checklist (Anna’s trademark writing aid!) of what your season plan must contain in terms of storylines, characters and episodes. She will go deeper into how to show the sustainability of an episodic series through episode loglines. And she will discuss the differences in how to present limited series and mini-series.

At the end of this webinar you will walk away feeling confident in the way you lay out your television series seasons. 

PLUS! You will receive:

• A FREE downloadable 5-page season mapping checklist 
• Arcs and mythology document
• True Detective Pitch
• Constantine Pitch

Testimonials from Anna's previous Stage 32 Courses:

"This was by far the best webinar on pitch documents that I have experienced." - Tiffany C.

"So informative on the structure of a pitch. What's needed and how to go about dealing with the things that will come up during a verbal pitch or simply in the relationship between those giving a pitch and those receiving one. Well organized Anna, thank you!" - Julia L.

"I really appreciate Anna's teaching method and style. She is knowledgeable and thoughtful, and really cares about her students!" -- Matthew M.

How do you lay out your first season arc for a serialized multi-season series?

• How long and how much detail for season one         

• How much to reveal or hold back

• Do you need to know how it ends and should you give it away

• How to organize separate storylines

• The elements your reader needs to see and understand from your season arc

• Story vs. character arcs

• Number of episodes in your season and should you break them out

How do you lay out your season for an episodic multi-season series?

• What to include in episode loglines

• How many episodes you need and how to pick the best ones

• How to convey serialized elements and character arcs

What about seasons two, three, and beyond?

• How many seasons you should plan for and include

• Ways to think about what future seasons could be about

• Length and detail for future season summaries

• Franchises and anthologies

How do you lay out the season for your limited or mini-series?

• How a limited series is different from a mini-series

• How much you have to break your series into episodes

• What to include in episode summaries

How do you communicate your vision for your series in a verbal pitch?

• Should you just focus on your pilot story

• Not losing your audience

• Adapting your pitch to your audience

What to do if you wrote your pilot but don’t know what the rest of the season is about?

• Can’t you leave this up to a producer / buyer?

• Thinking about story engine

• Thinking about character arcs

• Thinking about episodic structure

• Writing a script for episode 2 and beyond

Q&A with Anna

All levels of directors (advanced, intermediate and beginner) looking to map out a TV series seasons in a pitch deck

All levels of writers (advanced, intermediate and beginner) looking to map out a TV series seasons in a pitch deck

Producers looking to map out a TV series seasons in a pitch deck

Actors looking to map out a TV series seasons in a pitch deck

Testimonials from Anna's previous Stage 32 Courses:

"This was by far the best webinar on pitch documents that I have experienced." - Tiffany C.

"So informative on the structure of a pitch. What's needed and how to go about dealing with the things that will come up during a verbal pitch or simply in the relationship between those giving a pitch and those receiving one. Well organized Anna, thank you!" - Julia L.

"I really appreciate Anna's teaching method and style. She is knowledgeable and thoughtful, and really cares about her students!" -- Matthew M.