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Reaper Pilot Script

Tuesday, June 26, 2007

I love Reaper. I love it. It’s written by Michele Fazekas and Tara Butters. What I read is an unnumbered draft dated in December and is clearly not a production draft. No scene numbers. I had to count them: 45ish (accounting for my margin of error). A fast fun […]

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A Tour of Teasers

Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Let’s take a quick tour through the opening acts of some of the pilots that aired thus far this year.Traveler is a summer replacement series with a pilot written by David Diglio. It opened with the main titled followed by ten minutes of drama before the first commercial break. These ten minutes are […]

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Fucking Bollocking Twat Fuck

Saturday, June 16, 2007

The airing of a pilot is your big chance to hook in an audience for your series. In the week or so before broadcast, the show has had it’s launch publicity and tonight’s the night people are going to check it out. And by the time the titles or the first commercial break […]

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Viva Laughlin Pilot Script

Friday, June 8, 2007

I just read the script for Viva Laughlin, one of the pilots picked up for the fall by CBS and Global. Great script. The script by Huff creator Robert Lowry is a good read, has fabulously well-drawn characters and lots and lots of stakes. I can’t wait to watch.
I don’t want to […]