New information about this year’s Disney ABC Writing Fellowship was revealed last night at the Fine Arts Theater in Beverly Hills. ScreenPlayLab hosted the event with speaker Frank Gonzalez, Director of Talent Development for Disney. The basics remain the same: every year they pick 4 aspring feature film writers and 10 television writers, contract them […]
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Posted in Television, TV Writing, TV Writing Programs, Screenwriting, TV Writers, Warner Bros Writers Workshop, Disney ABC Writing Fellowship, Jane Espenson, ken levine, doris egan, lisa klink on Oct 9th, 2007 1 Comment »
Notices are going out this week for the Warner Bros TV Writer’s Workshop semi-finalists and the ABC/Disney TV Writing Fellowship notices aren’t far behind. But what do you do if you didn’t get in? TV writer Jane Espenson has the answer for you: either write a better spec, but not too soon or write a […]
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Say what you will about the SciFi Channel’s original movies, they require the cable network to purchase many scripts which means work for genre writers. Bill Cunningham on his DISContent blog has found writing guidelines from the SciFi channel via prolific writer-director Steve Latshaw.
"Actually, based on a conversation I had with their director of development […]
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I’m still getting many hits on this site every day from people looking for information about these two fellowship programs for TV drama and comedy screenwriters. Just so there is no confusion, I want to point out the deadline to apply this year has passed. For the ABC/Disney TV Writing Fellowship, the deadline was July […]
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I just got back from a Q&A session with the new head of the Warner Bros. TV Writing Fellowship program, Chris Mack. Here’s the notes about the revamped program:
This year they are taking 10 applicants total ("more drama than comedy because that’s the current marketplace"). For fifteen weeks the Fellows will meet every Wednesday night […]
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Over at the TVWriter message boards, an applicant who made it to the semi-finalist round in November was surprised to learn the Fellowship wanted to see a second spec script and they wanted it mailed in two days! So if you applied to the fellowship, make sure you have a second spec ready to go […]
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Yesterday, Warner Bros. revamped thier site and the details of this year’s TV Drama Writing Fellowship have changed since my initial post:
Deadline is now August 15, not August 1, 2007
For those selected, the program runs longer and later. It is now every Wednesday 7p-10pm from October 24, 2007 - January 30, 2008 (now 14 weeks […]
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