Summary
This new edition of Writing Television Sitcoms features the essential information every would-be teleplay writer needs to know to break into the business, including: - Updated examples from contemporary shows such as 30 Rock, The Office and South Park - Shifts in how modern stories are structured - How to recognize changes in taste and censorship - The reality of reality television - How the Internet has created series development opportunities - A refined strategy for approaching agents and managers - How pitches and e-queries work - or don't - The importance of screenwriting competitions
Additional Information
| Subjects |
Situation comedies (Television programs)
-- Authorship.
Television plays -- Technique. |
| Publisher | New York :Penguin Group,2009 |
| Edition | Rev. and expanded ed. |
| Language |
English |
| Notes |
"A Perigee book." |
| Description |
xviii, 331 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography Notes |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [321]-324) and index. |
| ISBN | 9780399535376 (pbk.) 0399535373 (pbk.) |
| Other | Classic View |