When are the breaks for each act? How many pages should my script be?

Well, the title said it. I've noticed that 1 hour shows these days are only about 43 minutes long each time. so how long should the written script be?

and where should I break for acts? I know that everythin in a tv show is planned out perfectly. How many pages should I go until a break for an act?

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How Can I send my Pilot to The Cw Network?

I'm very very excited to send my first Pilot to The Cw Network, but I don't know how can I send him. I have been searching about it, but I didn't had any answers about it. So, How Can I send my pilot to The Cw ?

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How's this for an episode?

For script frenzy, besides working the pilot for my original cartoon series I'm also doing a spec script for the TV show Smallville. The episode is titled: "Haiti"

Basically the premise if how the characters react to the earthquake that hit Haiti and joining in to help with the relief efforts.

I don't know if there's a critique section but I could use it. This is mainly what I've worked on. I'm rusty when it comes to writing scripts also since this was a copy and paste job the formatting is a little off.

TEASER

EXT-KENT FARM HOUSE-DAY.

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Brand New to TV

Hi I'm a novel/screenplay writer (or so I like to think :) and I was wondering: what should I know about TV Scripts? I am interested in a simple yet interesting TV show, more like the Waltons than Sue Thomas F.B.Eye or anything that exciting. So I have a few questions...

Do you break up a TV show like you do a movie with three acts? How many pages of writing goes to each act in, say, a 45 minute TV show?

Do you always need a pilot, or can you jump into a series mid-action? The Waltons started this way, but Sue Thomas F.B.Eye and Doc started w/ the characters' back-stories.

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is there anywhere to send off a script

hi, i am new to the forums and am just wondering if there are any company's i can send off my tv script, it is fully formatted, thanks

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Writing group?

Looking for people who want to do writing for a living, to create a group in order to critique each others Tv pilots!

Any genre welcome, as long as it's an original Tv pilot and not a spec script.

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Pilot plot

I'm not very experienced in TV scripts, but have done a bit of a research before I started and thought I have the pilot plotted out quite well. But as I'm going into more pages, I feel like nothing's happening...
I've checked and collected some pilot summaries here but I'm still a bit unsure.

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Should I give it a try?

I started off Screnzy writing a collection of comedic sketches and while I want to continue writing at least one sketch a day to keep my creative juices flowing I'm thinking about doing another, large project: a sitcom.

This month is the first time I've even even tried writing a script. The script I'd be writing would be a pilot. Should I give it a try anyway?

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When your content misses the mark by 10 minutes

Soumis par ricardob le avril 6, 2011 - 08:05.

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What do you usually do? You have your episode almost fully written, but you know your scenes don't fill the 45 minutes/pages.
How do you go about it? Work(read add) description, dialogue, or do you go about adding scenes.

I feel I have a tight script, in that every scene works within the narrative. No scene can be removed without hindering its logic, and I feel that adding just by adding, will disturb that.

Or should I move on to the next ep, and return to the problem later? Very alluring at the moment.

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That awkward moment when you realize your movie would be a better TV show.

So, yeah, I kind of decided today that the film screenplay I've been writing would be way better suited as a TV show. There's so much to the story that I want to add in, characters besides the main hero that I want to develop in deep ways, and plots that have very little to do with the main premise of the film.

I've written screenplays and read hundreds of them before, but TV scripts are something completely new to me. Any tips, main differences, things to watch out for in my little conversion experiment? I could use some advice here. ^__^

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