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Creating a TV Pilot that Grips the Audience from Page 1 OnDemand Webinar

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Creating a TV Pilot that Grips the Audience from Page 1 OnDemand WebinarABOUT THE WEBINAR Do you want to get in on the red hot world of TV and streaming content, but writing a pilot from scratch sounds too daunting? Do your TV scripts contain great ideas, but aren't yet placing in contests or catching the industry's eye? Are readers having trouble following your story or connecting with your themes? Do some of your characters and situations fall into cliches or stereotypes? Are you hoping to be seriously considered for

ABOUT THE WEBINAR

  • Do you want to get in on the red-hot world of TV and streaming content, but writing a pilot from scratch sounds too daunting?
  • Do your TV scripts contain great ideas, but aren't yet placing in contests or catching the industry's eye?
  • Are readers having trouble following your story or connecting with your themes?
  • Do some of your characters and situations fall into cliches or stereotypes?
  • Are you hoping to be seriously considered for staffing in a TV writers' room?

This class will teach you the steps you need to ensure that your TV pilot snares readers' attention in the very first scene, and keeps them thinking about your story long after they've finished the final word. By examining the pilots of Breaking Bad, The Sopranos, Mad Men, Modern Family, Frasier, Weeds, Big Bang Theory, and more, we'll break down what all of these classics have in common--and how you can emulate their best qualities.

Timothy has taught screenwriting and filmmaking at New York University, Yale University, the Writers Guild of America, and more, while consulting on hundreds of productions in NYC, L.A., and beyond. His experience will help you build a TV pilot that's true to your vision, totally unique, and sellable--while making you more passionate than ever about this craft.

After taking this class, you'll intuitively understand how to construct your own pilot from logline to final draft, by using classical structure in a truthful and personal way. Creating indelible characters, shocking plot twists, and surprising conflicts will be far easier. With Timothy's insight, you'll take away brand-new skills to help you craft an industry-ready pilot that's hilarious, dramatic, moving, and marketable.

WHAT YOU'LL LEARN

By the time you finish this class, you'll know:

  • How to open any pilot--half-hour or hourlong--with a bang
  • The 5 crucial elements your first 10 pages absolutely must contain
  • Which elements of formatting and structure you should follow and which you can ignore
  • Whether you should be writing a serial or a procedural right now
  • Why you must know your pilot's audience and write specifically for them
  • When and when not to mix genres
  • How to build a complex protagonist with a flaw that can never be solved...yet we root for them anyway
  • Secrets to designing supporting supporting characters who enhance your protagonist's issues
  • How to identify a powerful theme you can return to again and again
  • The key to juggling A, B, and C stories cleanly
  • Techniques for building the world of your show, whether it's in the modern day, future, or past
  • Write a cliffhanger that leaves your audience dying for episode 2
  • How to amp up the stakes even on page 1, then crank them even higher in each act
  • Use your passion, interests, and life experience to enhance your connection with the reader
  • The 3 differences between amateur and professional writers' pilots: efficiency, density, and twists

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

  • Sitcom writers looking to make a name for themselves with a solid concept and high-level joke crafting
  • Hourlong drama writers who want to make sure their idea stands up for itself in a competitive industry
  • Writers hoping to get staffed on a TV show and/or find representation with an agent/manager
  • Those who've written a few spec scripts, but need a step-by-step method to writing their first pilot
  • Brand-new writers seeking to understand what separates pilots that sell from those that languish
  • More experienced writers who know their script isn't breaking through, but aren't sure why
  • Up-and-comers hoping to place in major TV contests and fellowships, like Austin, Sundance, Amazon, etc.
  • Artists looking to punch up an existing pilot script
  • Students seeking high-level techniques to take their pilot to the next stage
  • Creators in the outlining phase who want to strengthen their story before taking the next step
  • Anyone who's eager to strengthen their script's characters, dialogue, action, and storytelling
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Altairjones
Fort Morgan, US
★★★★★ 3
I’m a little disappointed.
Format: Kindle
I usually like Jillian West’s books but this one was missing a lot for me. The pregnancy didn’t come across as real. She’s on her feet for 12 hour days but is perfectly healthy at 8 months pregnant? Yet the week she moves in all of a sudden she’s not? She is planning on actually running during one of the plot buildups. But at 8 months pregnant that’s incredibly hard to do. The lack of breathing ability and lung space, the change in body center, mass, and gravity. All of it prohibits running, unless you’re an athlete this didn’t come off as at all realistic. I didn’t feel any connection with the alphas. There wasn’t any emotional connection. It could be because of the tense it was written in. But I didn’t get any deep feelings out of this. It came across as checking off boxes. Even the spicy scenes weren’t really believable for me. I wanted to see them fall for her, and it just kind of all fizzled. Even Bishop. One thing I did really like was the ending. I did not see it coming and I’m interested in reading book two because of it. But on the whole this book was mostly disappointing for me.
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Melissa Williams
Natrona Heights, US
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4.25 stars
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Vale is an 8 month pregnant omega working as a waitress at a strip club and a cam girl. She starts to get very creepy vibes from a regular at the club, and her baby daddy ghosted her. She has had an online relationship with a man named Bishop through her cam girl status. One night, bishop was paying to watch her sleep and ansthe creepy regular Andrew break in and watch her sleep he tells vale to come to him at his business now. She flees and finds herself at a large security company with some.hot of alphas who are there to help her. This imegaverse is a little different than I have read, but I am thoroughly enjoying it. Vale is not a traditional omega she was raised by a single beta mom, and the alphas are not normal alphas they have never really loved pack life. But they are ruthless mercenaries. They need her, and she needs them. I love the aspect of the stalker and now the plot twists at the end, so so good. Sometimes, it seemed a little slow and stale mated, but since this a duet, I think It was just her starting to have Vale get to know her alpha suitors. Cliffhanger for sure with this one.
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Austin & Cambria
Lowell, US
★★★★★ 5
That ending 😫
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I fell into a false sense of security and really thought this was gearing towards a happy ending. Then I realized there’s no work they don’t punish Andrew. I really liked Vale’s character. I don’t normally read books with pregnancy but going into this knowing she was pregnant made it more enjoyable for me. I loved Bishops devotion to her and her happiness. I also loved that Holt and Mercy couldn’t fight their attraction to her. I love scent matches so very much. I’m so curious to see how this duet will end up. And I need to pay more attention and notice that a book I’m starting is a duet to begin with lol
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Sarah A
Bozeman, US
★★★★★ 5
oh wow
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I just knew there was something about Cooper! I’m wondering if he’s about to be included but damn I’m glad he’s at least not a rapist and creepy guy, he just got called on assignment and had to go! This should be interesting! She’s gonna run and then what’s his face is gonna grab her. I’m worried! Wow that was a great book and cliffhanger! Loving this!
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Ashley Morgan
Alexandria, US
★★★★★ 5
ABSOLUTELY A MUST for Omegaverse Girls!!!
I ABSOLUTELY LOVE Jillian West and her books!!! I’m so happy I already bought book two and now I have to buy the others for the Assurance Security series!! Not gonna lie Val kind of annoyed me at the beginning but she grew on me!! Her men are chef’s kisses!!! Holt annoys me some but I can let it slide. I already bought part two so I’m going to be reading that in between work phone calls!!!! DON’T TELL MY BOSS 😂😂😂😂
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Reviewed in the United States on September 30, 2025

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