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Pilot Structure Trends

Thursday, August 9, 2007

These are the structural trends emerging from the pilots I’ve read and watched:
Open long.A lot of teases are running very long. Or scripts are eschewing teases altogether and leading off with titles followed by a long act one. Once you get the viewer tuned in, why give them a commercial and let them […]

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Mad Men

Wednesday, July 25, 2007

I’m predisposed to love this show.
People I like tell me it’s great.
Plus, my dad was an ad man in the 50s and 60s. He wasn’t a Madison Avenue type. His office was on Peel Street in Montreal. He worked his way up from copywriter through the executive ranks until he was running […]

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