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Anybody Else? - GeraldRice - 07-12-2007
Recently, I submitted a teleplay to NBC for one of their shows, Medium. I don't know how long it takes for them to review--anyone else submitted something to any of the major networks? What was your experience?
Anybody Else? - Marc - 07-12-2007
To my knowledge no studio will not accept unsolicited scripts. The exception to the rule was Star Trek.
Anybody Else? - Mike Hanson - 07-12-2007
GeraldRice Wrote:Recently, I submitted a teleplay to NBC for one of their shows, Medium. I don't know how long it takes for them to review--anyone else submitted something to any of the major networks? What was your experience?
I submitted three one-hour teleplays to Paramount
for Star Trek Deep Space Nine and Star Trek Voyager
back during their open submission policy. The wait was
long and horrendous, however, the letterhead on the
rejection notices looks pretty darned cool...sigh
If you have official represention, Gerald, congratulations.
If you have a personal connection to a television show,
and thus an "in" when it comes to script submissions,
I am very jealous. ;-)
Mike out
Anybody Else? - Auskar - 07-13-2007
Like Marc said, to my knowledge, you need an agent. Except Star Trek. The guy that does Battlestar Galactica, I think, got his start by submitting an unsolicited screenplay to Star Trek (though I could also be very wrong about that, too).
Anybody Else? - GeraldRice - 07-13-2007
Actually, if you dig around on NBC's website, there is a place where you can request permission to submit something to them. It takes about 2 weeks and then their legal department will send you something to fill out and sign and you can submit your submission to them. I have to give them a call and find out how long it takes.
I'll look it up and post the link on here.
Anybody Else? - Mike Hanson - 07-13-2007
Auskar Wrote:Like Marc said, to my knowledge, you need an agent. Except Star Trek. The guy that does Battlestar Galactica, I think, got his start by submitting an unsolicited screenplay to Star Trek (though I could also be very wrong about that, too).
I'd heard the same thing for years Auskar...and then I read an interview with Moore a few months ago where he went into some detail about how he broke in. He actually never officially submitted a script through Paramount's Star Trek open submissions program. What happened was he made a connection through a friend and got a personal tour of the Star Trek The Next Generation Set, and during that two-person tour kept asking/pestering the guy giving the tour (some mid-level guy at the studio) to accept (take) the spec script Ron had brought with him. Some how, some way, Ron managed to charm the guy, who took the script, personally delivered it to the writing department, where it got read, and the rest is history. In short, Ron found himself an "in," which bypassed that route I took (and where I and THOUSANDS of others got fed into the funnel and grinder that was the Paramount Television Star Trek Development Department run by Lolita Fatjo). But I'm not bitter...
Anybody Else? - Mike Hanson - 07-13-2007
GeraldRice Wrote:Actually, if you dig around on NBC's website, there is a place where you can request permission to submit something to them. It takes about 2 weeks and then their legal department will send you something to fill out and sign and you can submit your submission to them. I have to give them a call and find out how long it takes. I'll look it up and post the link on here.
Thank you for setting me straight on the matter.
And best of luck on your submission. You never know. Your
script might just have an idea or situation that is exactly what
they are looking for. Hope springs eternal...
Take care,
Mike out
Anybody Else? - GeraldRice - 07-19-2007
Found the link: http://nbcunicareers.com/entry_leadership/diversity_initiative_for_writers/
Anybody Else? - Biggles - 07-19-2007
Marc B. Wrote:To my knowledge no studio will not accept unsolicited scripts. The exception to the rule was Star Trek.
Especially if the scripts contain any triple negatives.
But then I'm not sure if I don't know what I'm not talking about, neither.