Earlier this week I was visiting with a filmmaker who integrated one of my brands into his film and I asked him what his distributors are looking for. His answer was: SERIES. "They want films, yes, but they're also asking for more series to get visitors to stay on their platforms longer -- even limited series with 2, 3 or more episodes. Doesn't have to be 8 eps."
Who's producing a series and what are you hearing?
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Well, I’ve written a very authentic riveting pulse pounding Drama series called, THE INCISIVE: A Coincidence. S1, 10 Episodes ready to go. Not sure if this is directly related to the subject matter above...
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Agreed Ms. Harris, but make it an ORIGINAL tv series not like a poor rip-off of the great British tv series"The Office." Ricky Gervais can't stand it anynore! I mean "Fifth time!"
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I've heard the same thing a few times, Fran Harris. Producers, distributors, and companies are looking for series. It has me thinking about writing and pitching a series. I've been wanting to anyway.
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For years, I only wrote features. Television always felt so beyond reach. At one point, I looked at some of my more ambitious features and thought "I could really explore the themes in these scripts, in far greater detail, in a series." I ended up adapted a few of my features into pilots, and then wrote a few original pilots. A couple of the pilots got some recognition in competitions, but I still have no idea what to do with them. Some of the members in my writing group seem to be attracting far more attention to their pilots than I am. They deserve it, no doubt about that.
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From a producing standpoint, I've never tried to produce a series. I shot a pilot episode of what was going to be a webseries, but then realized it wasn't going anywhere and left the film as a solo short. I guess I did shoot a second episode, but I never did anything with it. I know some webseries have been picked up for adaptation to television, but a minute percentage.
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Especially with the streamers adopting these ad tiers, they can finally realize some of the value off streaming hours for once via ad revenue. But we all know it's just going to make the audience viewing experience worse and pretty much exactly like cable TV once again within a couple years. We radically innovated for the better only to end up right back where we started. And do the creatives of these series get any of this precious ad rev? Likely not, right?
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that’s a HOT take Pat Alexander !!!!