The TV Showrunner's Roadmap: 21 Navigational Tips for Screenwriters to Create and Sustain a Hit TV Series

By Neil Landau

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415831679
• ISBN13: 9780415831673
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"