Make yours really sell your idea by being the best you can make it. Here is my easy to assimilate, Go To approach to writing the definitive tv Treatment. I write about this and lots of other writing related things in my book Writing for Television Series, Serials and Soaps but I will add the condensed elements of what makes a great Treatment and how to write one here. Do not write a word unless it holds its weight. Remember – we are cash rich but time poor. Any more and we are getting into short film territory and that is not where Producers of tv want to be. The Treatments I help my writers write are all under 10 pages. And often, the first thing I talk to my writers about is the Treatment of their idea. Writers come to me not only to help fix the script they’re stuck on, but to also raise the bar of their writing in general. Now, I work with writers one on one via my Script Consultancy. I have worked with many, many writers throughout my career, as a Script Editor on EastEnders, amongst other great long runners and then as a Producer of Holby City and other popular series formats. There’s so much going on here: the characters, the world they live in, the story itself and are you actually saying something that people will want to engage with? How do you highlight the bits that are working in your tv idea and those that aren’t? Is there enough story? What are you actually trying to say? How do you control all these elements? You’ve had a brilliant one which has to be for television – there’s a series here you know it, but the sheer weight of the story, the abundance of characters, the complexity of this world you are creating is overwhelming. Radio sitcoms tend to sit within a rigid wider schedule of programmes and you need to think about which slot your script is intended for.You are a writer with great ideas. Radio sitcoms can be recorded with or without an audience. You should specify whether or not your script is intended for live studio recording. Do NOT send scripts, ideas or material for sketch shows - we only accept narrative comedy sitcoms and series. Sitcom and comedy series episodes are always 30 minutes. You should send the first full pilot episode and a brief outline (1-3 pages) of the remaining series narrative. You should send one full episode and a brief outline (1-3 pages) of further episode stories/ideas.Ĭomedy series differ from traditional sitcoms in that they have a greater element of serial storyline arcing over each series, and can tend to be recorded on location rather than in front of a live studio audience - from The Office to Gavin and Stacey. Sitcoms are frequently recorded before a live studio audience - from Steptoe and Son to Fawlty Towers to Mrs Brown's Boys. Traditional sitcoms are comprised of a series of self-contained stories each episode/week, with a cast of primarily continuing characters in a set-up that remains unchanged.
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