For Emerging TV Writers: Apply to Disney/ABC & WB Writers' Workshop

Hi Everyone, 

This note is specifically for emerging TV writers.  

Just a quick reminder about the ScriptPipeline International TV
Writing Competition and that submissions are now open for both 
the Disney/ABC Television Group and the Warner Bros Writers' Workshop.  
Plus Steve Kaplan's Comedy Intensive in LA June 5 & 6th.  

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3rd Annual TV Writing Competition 

Our friends at ScriptPipeline (aka ScriptP.I.M.P.) have the deadline 
for their TV Script Competition coming up on May 15th 
(when you submit through WithoutaBox). 

Find all the details at:  
http://www.scriptpipeline.com/tv-writing-competition 


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Warner Bros Writers’ Workshop

Submit your TV specs to our friends at the Warner Bros Writers’ Workshop.  
To apply submit a half-hour or hour writing sample based on a primetime 
network or cable series that aired new episodes during the 2009-2010 
television season.  Submissions are being accepted now through June 1, 2010.  

Find all the details at:  
http://writersworkshop.warnerbros.com/

The Warner Bros. Television Writers’ Workshop consists of three components 
all geared towards preparing the writer for a successful career in television 
writing.

Lectures: Weekly lectures feature guest speakers currently working in television 
and include a mix of showrunners, directors, actors and agents. Each seminar will 
teach a new skill essential for surviving and excelling in a writers’ room as a 
staff writer and beyond. 

Simulated Writers’ Room: After the lectures, the Workshop participants are 
divided into smaller groups for an intensive writing experience. Each participant 
will be required to complete a new spec script under the same deadlines found on a 
show currently in production. How participants perform during this exercise will 
determine whether they will be chosen for a possible staffing position on a 
Warner Bros. show. Yes, the stakes are that high! 

Staffing: Upon completion of the program, Studio executives will help participants, 
who pass the Writers' Room, obtain a staff position on a Warner Bros. television 
show currently in production. We can’t guarantee you will get staffed, but we will 
get your material in front of the people who make the ultimate decisions 
– the showrunners. 

The 2010–2011 Warner Bros. Television Writers’ Workshop will run October 2010–March 2011, 
with meetings on the Warner Bros. lot in Los Angeles, California, every Wednesday 
evening from 7 p.m.–10 p.m. Full participation is mandatory. 

Learn more at: http://writersworkshop.warnerbros.com/

Before you submit you can also get your TV specs covered at ScriptPipeline.  
They have a 2 - 5 day turnaround and can give you great insights into taking 
your TV spec to the next level.  

Learn more at:  http://www.scriptpipeline.com/writers-workshop

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Disney / ABC Talent Development

Submit your TV Specs to our friends at Disney / ABC Talent Development.  
To apply submit a half-hour or hour writing sample based on a primetime 
network or cable series that aired new episodes during the 2009-2010 
television season.  Submissions are being accepted now through June 30, 2010.  

Created in 1990 in partnership with the Writers Guild of America West (WGAW), 
the Disney|ABC Television Writing Fellowship is based in Los Angeles and is 
widely recognized as one of the entertainment industry’s most coveted 
writing programs. About the Television Writing Fellowship Fellows become 
employees of Disney | ABC Television Group and will be paid a weekly 
salary of $961.54 ($50,000.00 annualized) plus any applicable benefits 
for which they are eligible in accordance with the then-current Company 
benefits plans. The program is designed to expose aspiring writers to 
key executives, producers and literary representatives – all essential 
in the pursuit of a writing career. Additionally, while in the program, 
fellows have the opportunity to work one-on-one with a current programming 
or development executive to create spec scripts of series from the current 
broadcast season.  The ultimate goal is to prepare and nurture the fellows 
for a writing career. 

Learn more at: http://www.abctalentdevelopment.com/programs/programs_writings_fellowship.html

Before you submit you can also get your TV specs covered at ScriptPipeline.  
They have a 2 - 5 day turnaround and can give you great insights into taking 
your TV spec to the next level.  
Learn more at:  http://www.scriptpipeline.com/writers-workshop

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Steve Kaplan Comedy Intensive 
June 5 – 6th in Los Angeles 
at Universal Sheraton Hotel 

Register for Industry Discount (Save $45) at:
http://www.kaplancomedy.com/usindustry.html

I've taken this course alongside many of the mentees 
from Chris Soth's Your Screenplay Mentor Program 
www.yourscreenplaymentor.com and I absolutely LOVED IT!!!  

The seminar is The Industry's #1 Course on Comedy, attracting 
top writers, producers, directors and executives from such 
companies as Dreamworks, Disney, Aardman Animation, NBC, 
Touchstone, ABC and more. 

David Fury, Emmy-Winning Writer/Producer for 24, Lost, 
Buffy the Vampire Slayer and more said of Steve: 
"I wrote...my best, funniest sketches thanks, in no small part, 
to the lessons I learned from Steve Kaplan's comedy classes. 
Steve breaks the fine art of comedy down...that helps the 
unfunny become funny, and the funny become funnier." 

Get your Industry Discount at: 

http://www.kaplancomedy.com/usindustry.html

Regularly $295 – You Pay only $250 

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To your success, 


Philippa 


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