Now What?

[clandis88]

Ok I have everything done to pitch my show idea. Who do I send it to now? A producer or Agent? Can someone help me out here.

Thanks

[odocoileus]

I'd recommend putting it aside for a while, and then rewriting it. Then register it with the WGA for twenty bucks, and post it on peer review sites like twoadverbs, triggerstreet, zoetrope. Better yet, join a writers group in your area. When and if you are satisfied that it's your best work, you can enter your script into those contests that accept TV pilot scripts tvwriter.com has such a contest, and scriptapalooza tv does as well. There are others, check moviebytes.com.

If you are absolutely sure that your work is first rate, as in if your script was a batter, he could face up against the Big Unit and hit three out of ten times, then you can write a super sharp query letter that pitches your brilliant script in five lines or less. Send your query letter to prodcos that do shows like the one in your script.

Alex Epstein, the writer/showrunner/writing guru says that a writer with an absolutely brilliant idea and perfectly flawless execution may be able to bypass the usual rough road to creating a tv show by contacting an established showrunner and having him or her agree to make the show. The odds of this happening are about the same as hitting the lottery, Epstein implies.

The WGA has an excellent guide to the business side of writing for episodic TV - which is what you're aiming to do if you're trying to sell a pilot script.
http://www.wga.org/subpage_writersresources.aspx?id=156

Generally speaking, production companies and other buyers are only willing to go into business with established TV writers who have already proved themselves by writing on staff at existing TV shows.

One script typically isn't enough. The first question they will ask you, assuming that your script is good enough, is "What else have you got?" "Nothing." is not a good answer.

There are exceptions - authors of hit novels, authors of hit plays, screenwriters of the scripts for hit films, successful standup comedians, successful comic strip creators. You can see the pattern here. Before anybody is willilng to invest the millions of dollars that it takes to create and launch a new TV show, they want to see significant evidence of previous commercial success.

For example, I'm quite sure that playwright/actor/producer Tyler Perry has been contacted by various prodcos and execs with an eye toward having him develop TV shows. Major commercial success encourages the movers and shakers to call you, rather than hanging up on you when you try to call them.

[clandis88]

Im sorry i must of been misunderstood. Its not a script its a reality show Idea.