No not the ones who crash planes and fly beds, the TV shows.

I am writing and pitching a pilot script to a television studio where I have a connection.

I am going to go through the pilot episodes for Arrested Development, iCarly, Community, Brooklyn99, and Superstore because I feel like that’s the common average of the shows that influence the style I am trying to hit, figure out where the act points are (a sitcom script either has 2 or 3 acts I think – each one ending before a commercial break where the viewer goes “oh no” and at the end of act 1 trouble is coming, and at the end of act 2 trouble is here – at least that’s what I read in the Comic Toolbox), and figure out how the characters and situations are introduced and set up to incite the beginning of a television show. I should have a pretty good grasp on how to write the pilot after that. In the meantime as I am doing this I will also write and complete the pilot script making the above exercise redundant, uselessly time wasting, and unnecessary (also redundant).

Aaron Plane Writer

2016-12-20