Genre: TV Pilot – Sitcom Premise: A 30-something writer for an outdoors magazine suffers an injury that forces him to work back at the company offices, where the magazine is run by a bunch of delicate millennials with zero outdoors experience. About: This is a new sitcom coming to CBS which snagged the most in-demand […]

What happens when you switch a whole lot of shit around in a great script? Today’s script-to-screen breakdown tells you! Genre: Contained Thriller/Sci-fi Premise: (IMDB) After getting in a car accident, a woman is held in a shelter with two men, who claim the outside world is affected by a widespread chemical attack. About: This […]

Wow, all these people came out of the woodwork to submit for Pilot Week. It’s as if there’s this whole sub-section of secret Scriptshadow readers who were waiting for this moment. I might have to do a second week of this since there were so many submissions and I couldn’t get all the good ones […]

Congrats to Paul Schellens! Who yesterday won the “Introductory Character Scene” Contest. Really good scene – did everything I asked for. Was even clever enough to use a scene I’d previously suggested, which always gets you points. :) Nice job, Paul! Genre: Horror, Thriller Premise: After accepting a gig to craft a demon mask, a […]

Gratuitous Deadpool pic that can be used in any article One of the most important scenes in a script is your protagonist’s introductory scene. I can’t stress this enough. One of the biggest mistakes new screenwriters make is not conveying who their protagonist is in that opening scene and not showing us why they’re a […]