The TV Showrunner's Roadmap
eBook - ePub

The TV Showrunner's Roadmap

Creating Great Television in an On Demand World

  1. 352 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The TV Showrunner's Roadmap

Creating Great Television in an On Demand World

About this book

This all-new edition of the best-selling guide The TV Showrunner's Roadmap provides readers with the tools for creating, writing, and managing your own hit streaming series.

Combining his 30+ years as a working screenwriter and professor, industry veteran Neil Landau expertly unpacks essential insights to the creation of a successful show and takes readers behind the scenes with exclusive and enlightening interviews with showrunners from some of TV's most lauded series, including Fargo, Better Call Saul, Watchmen, Insecure, Barry, Money Heist, Succession, Ozark, Schitt's Creek, Euphoria, PEN15, and many more.

From conception to final rewrite, The TV Showrunner's Roadmap is an invaluable resource for anyone seeking to create a series that won't run out of steam after the first few episodes. This groundbreaking guide features an eResource with additional interviews and bonus materials.

So grab your laptop, dig out that stalled spec script, and buckle up. Welcome to the fast lane.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2022
eBook ISBN
9781000545678

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Endorsements
  3. Half Title
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. Also by Neil Landau
  9. Foreword
  10. How to Navigate This Book
  11. Introduction
  12. 1 From Concept to Pilot Script
  13. 2 Intellectual Property and Adaptation
  14. 3 World Building, Specificity of Setting, and Revising History
  15. 4 Fueling Your Story Engine: Central Questions and Central Mysteries
  16. 5 The Power of Empathy
  17. 6 The Value Family Dynamics
  18. 7 Get to the Heart of Your Story
  19. 8 POV and Subtext
  20. 9 Antagonists
  21. 10 Defying Formulaic Structure
  22. 11 Theme
  23. 12 Cliffhangers
  24. 13 Life on the Cringe: Comedy and Culture
  25. 14 Pitching and Selling
  26. Acknowledgments
  27. About the Author
  28. Index