The TV Showrunner's Roadmap: 21 Navigational Tips for Screenwriters to Create and Sustain a Hit TV Series Author: Neil Landau | Language: English | ISBN:
0415831679 | Format: PDF
The TV Showrunner's Roadmap: 21 Navigational Tips for Screenwriters to Create and Sustain a Hit TV Series Description
If you’ve ever dreamed of being in charge of your own network, cable, or web series, then this is the book for you. The TV Showrunner’s Roadmap provides you with the tools for creating, writing, and managing your own hit show. Combining his 20+ years as a working screenwriter and UCLA professor, Neil Landau expertly guides you through 21 essential insights to the creation of a successful show, and takes you behind the scenes with exclusive and enlightening interviews with showrunners from some of TV’s most lauded series, including:
- Breaking Bad
- Homeland
- Scandal
- Modern Family
- The Walking Dead
- Once Upon a Time
- Lost
- House, M.D.
- Friday Night Lights
- The Good Wife
From conception to final rewrite, The TV Showrunner’s Roadmap is an invaluable resource for anyone seeking to create a series that won’t run out of steam after the first few episodes. This groundbreaking guide features a companion website with additional interviews and bonus materials. www.focalpress.com/cw/landau
So grab your laptop, dig out that stalled spec script, and buckle up. Welcome to the fast lane.
- Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: Focal Press; First Edition edition (December 4, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0415831679
- ISBN-13: 978-0415831673
- Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.8 inches
- Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Neil Landau is rapidly becoming the resource of choice for the emerging generation of new writers. His first two books, 101 Things I Learned In Film School, followed by 21 Ways To Jumpstart Your Story have proved to be excellent companions, filled with essential information organized in a coherent, user-friendly format. A third book is now added to Neil’s canon: THE TV SHOWRUNNER’S ROADMAP. This book takes potential writer-entrepreneurs through the complex terrain of creating and sustaining a hit television series. Once again, Neil navigates his readers with clarity, with practical down-to-earth usable advice, with insight and with compassion. The book could not be more timely. With the paradigm shift to television, with the best work and greatest opportunities for writers now in that medium, this book is an absolute MUST HAVE for anyone hoping to take his or her best shot.
Hal Ackerman
UCLA Screenwriting Co-Area head
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Highly recommmended. A great insight into TV writing and show running. Essential if you're an aspiring TV writer / student.
By Beto Skubs
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