ABSTRACT

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.

chapter |20 pages

Prepare the Perfect Pitch

chapter |6 pages

Explore a New Arena

chapter |15 pages

Service your Franchise

chapter |14 pages

Deliver the Verdict

chapter |15 pages

Make us Care

chapter |13 pages

Value Family Dynamics

chapter |13 pages

Fuel your Story Engine

chapter |13 pages

Identify Characters' Weaknesses

chapter |18 pages

Determine the POV

chapter |15 pages

Get to the Heart of your Story

chapter |10 pages

Know who and what they're up Against

chapter |14 pages

Mine the Mystery

chapter |18 pages

Blueprint your Structure

chapter |10 pages

Unify Storylines (Via Theme)

chapter |4 pages

Pique Our Interest with a Potent Teaser

chapter |12 pages

Hit the Sweet Spot

chapter |12 pages

Pay Off the Setups

chapter |16 pages

Establish the Mythology

chapter |11 pages

Push them Off a Cliff

chapter |18 pages

Designate an Expertise

chapter |21 pages

Make us Laugh