10Selling Your Television Pilot

Bypassing The Room: Becoming a Television Content Creator

In today’s booming television market, many writers have set their sights on bypassing traditional career-building routes of staffing on television and then working their way up, and instead seek to break in by selling pilots, much as the subject of Screenwriter Spotlight #10 Joe Webb was able to do. But is it really the open and highly accessible playing field everyone is hoping to find? For insights, I turned to my industry colleagues.

The Cartel’s Evan Corday shared her insights about the evolution of the space with me:

I think broadcast is a very different business these days. It’s really about the package. I mean you will see people partnering that ...

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