If you want to sell a TV show, writing a great pilot is only part of the equation. You're also going to have to pitch that series to producers, networks, studios, etc etc. In some cases, you don't even go out with a script, and that pitch is all you have to convince the buyer to make that show. So, learning how to pitch is is super important.
I've been a Lit and Talent manager for 19 years, and I've been in on a ton of pitches. Starting May 9th, I'll be teaching a lab here for that exact thing. I'll be taking the students thought the entire process of creating a killer pitch deck and verbal pitch. You should leave this lab with all the tools you need to take out every TV show for the rest of your career.
Here's a link to check out the details:
https://www.stage32.com/education/products/stage-32-tv-pitching-lab-deve...
Pitching is super important, so if you don't learn it from me, please learn it from someone. Happy to answer any questions!
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Pitching is super important and I'm in Cannes in a month with an unscripted biker adventure series, I'll check out the details:!
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I've been working through the inverse of what you're describing. Written pitches and cold queries land requests for me; verbal pitches don't. The voice and conversational tone read in the room. Listeners lean in. The conversion doesn't happen. My suspicion is that the lean-in is engagement and the ask is conversion, and the two don't follow each other without structural scaffolding underneath the tone. The verbal pitch must be the muscle I'm missing.