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Untitled Comedy Pilot

Pilot • Comedy / Dramedy • Drafting Act 1

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Logline

Replace this with the one-sentence logline for your pilot. Max 25 words. Should answer: who's the protagonist, what do they want, what's standing in their way?

Synopsis

Three short paragraphs in present tense.

Paragraph 1: the world. Set the place, time, and tone in 2–3 sentences. Make the reader feel where they are before anything happens.

Paragraph 2: the catalyst. Who's the protagonist, and what disrupts their normal? Hint at the season-long question.

Paragraph 3: the stakes and the company. What's at risk, who's in the orbit, and what does each act look like in shape (not detail).

What it's about, really

One short paragraph in your own voice. Not the plot — the theme. Why does this story exist? What's it actually wrestling with? This is the part that gets a manager to remember you.

Opening pages

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Why this scene: a one-sentence note in your voice about why these pages set up the season.

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FADE IN:

INT. SOMEWHERE — NIGHT

A character we don't know yet sits across
from a person they shouldn't be talking to.
Neither one looks at the other.

              CHARACTER A
     Replace this scene with the actual
     opening pages of your pilot. Two to
     five pages. Cut on a tension beat
     so the reader wants more.

              CHARACTER B
          (a beat)
     The screenplay font here is monospace
     to read like a real script. The custom
     CSS will tighten this further.

CHARACTER A picks up a glass that isn't theirs.

                                    SMASH CUT TO:

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Format & status
Format Half-hour pilot
Length 32 pages (target)
Draft 1st draft, in progress
Status Outlining → Drafting Act 1
Submissions None yet

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