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?
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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
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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.
I'll look it up and post the link on here.
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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...
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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
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Found the link: http://nbcunicareers.com/entry_leadershi...r_writers/
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“That stuff work?” Israel said to her.
“‘Scuse me?” the little old woman said, clutching her keys.
“The spray. Does it keep them away?”
“Keep who away?” She looked confused.
“I gotcha.” Israel gave her a conspiratorial wink.
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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.
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