In this exclusive 4-part Stage 32 class, Audrey Knox, a literary manager at The Cartel, will teach you all of the basic steps required to write a strong TV pilot script. You don't want to miss this!
https://www.stage32.com/classes/TV-Writing-101#about-instructor
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Hi all, excited to connect and talk about the secrets behind a great TV pilot and why I love TV structure so much. xoxox talk soon.
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I'm super excited to dive in! Thank you!
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Thanks for a great first class, Audrey! Digging into some of the homework now :)
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Hello! Stray thought on The Expanse pilot (uh, here be spoiler??) - so I'm rewatching that right now and one reason it works for me despite the destruction of the literal first setting/environment (the Canterbury) is that the larger setting they're establishing is space - specifically, how deadly space is: the importance of air/air filters on Ceres Station, Julie Mao desperately drinking two drops of water floating in zero gee, the ice miner accident where poor dude loses his arm, even the scene where Holden is banging his girlfriend in zero gee and then suddenly the gravity turns back on and they thump to the ground, very cute, but all of this sets up the general idea that this is a show that (unlike a lot of sf TV) will be treating space as an environment and physics fairly "realistically" aside from the protomolecule stuff. (I am, er, married to a gravitational astrophysicist and my poor husband has to field ALL my questions about this!)
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Sydney, Please let me/us know when this class opens up again. Thanks, Jed.
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Yoon Ha Lee Great insight! I should probably add to my extensive checklist of things that a pilot script needs to accomplish is that it also needs to establish the rules of the world. Especially important in world-building genres like science fiction.