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Writing A TV Pilot Script? One of the best ways to learn how to write a TV pilot script is by reading pilot scripts. Gathered here are eight pilot script PDFs from some of the most popular recent comedies. Check them out.
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A ton of action as the TV world continues to look forward to the next batch of new shows soon to appear on your home screens. Also included, something new for HBO, the USA Network, NBC and ITV 1. Click on the link to get all the info.
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TODAY’S HEADLINES
The online streaming giant has acquired worldwide distribution rights to the upcoming Kevin James comedy
The True Memoirs of an International Assassin. The sale, which is in final negotiations, is a formidable coup for Netflix as it continues to build on its reputation in the realm of distributing original films.
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Though the season is not officially over for another three nights, the Comcast-owned NBC looks to have clinched the top spot among adults 18-49 for the second year in a row – by a Super Bowl XLIX hair. With the big NFL game on its schedule this year, the network drew a 2.4/8 rating among adults 18-49 for the 2014-15 TV season compared to CBS’ 2.3/7 result, as the latter network took the viewership championship again.
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The film being shopped to buyers in Cannes is causing a monster legal battle. The rightsholders of the
Godzilla franchise, the Japanese company Toho, have sued Voltage Pictures over the film
Colossal, which stars Anne Hathaway playing a woman who realizes her mind is strangely connected to a giant lizard destroying Tokyo. It's described as
Godzilla meets
Being John Malkovich. In fact, it is
Godzilla, says Toho, which filed a complaint today in court.
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The characters played in the pilot by Bethany Joy Lenz and Damon Dayoub will be recast for the ongoing series, which will premiere in the fall. The show, which stars Mireille Enos as an elite fraud investigator who ironically finds herself the victim of a long con perpetrated by her fiance Kieran. In the pilot, Dayoub played Kieran and Lenz played Kieran’s actual wife.
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Ed Zwick is in talks to helm the film, which he would rewrite with longtime partner Marshall Herskovitz. The first draft of the project — said to be based on the 18th novel in the Reacher series by Lee Child,
Never Go Back — was written by Richard Wenk, and now star and producer Tom Cruise’s
The Last Samurai director appears ready to jump on board.
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Veteran British TV writer Sally Wainwright will make her feature directorial debut with the two-hour BBC1 drama.
To Walk Invisible: The Bronte Sisters will center on Charlotte, who penned
Jane Eyre, and Emily, who wrote
Wuthering Heights, and their two other siblings — their younger sister Anne, who wrote
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, and their brother Branwell, who died of alcoholism and drug addiction — and their autodidact father.
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Twentieth Century Fox has released the first trailer from the upcoming sequel to last year’s hit film, based on the popular YA trilogy. Once again directed by Wes Ball and starring Dylan O’Brien, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Kaya Scodelario, Giancarlo Esposito, Ki Hong Lee, Rosa Salazar and Jacob Lofland. It opens September 18th.
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The first look at the new Zac Efron film, about an aspiring DJ in the world of EDM. Efron stars as Cole, who is trying to make ends meet during the day, while working at night on the one track that will make his entire career. Wes Bentley, Jonny Weston, Emily Ratajkowski, Shiloh Fernandez and Jon Bernthal, and hits theaters August 28th.
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