Creating Original Series Ideas and Writing Spec Pilots OnDemand Webinar

DESCRIPTIONAfter having the good fortune of launching a professional screenwriting career with the HBO miniseries BAND OF BROTHERS and FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON, writer-producer Erik Bork was introduced to the world of creating series ideas, pitching them, and writing pilot scripts by his television agents at CAA.Since then, he has developed countless one-hour and half-hour concepts and presented them to his agents, producers, studio and network executives -- in some cases selling or optioning the idea and being commissioned to write a pilot script (in other cases, not!).In the process, he learned, the hard way, what works and doesn't work in a series idea, and how television writing and series creation works -- something he thought he understood from years of watching TV, and from writing screenplays. But episodic TV is a very different medium even from miniseries, with its own rules and culture -- both creatively, and in terms of the business.In the process of making a living in tel