Can't think of two things I hate more...but in case anyone else is interested - a contest!

[shadowkat]

Got this via...well a meetup group. Personally, I can't think of two things I hate to write more than TV script-writing and procedurals, so I'm not doing it, even though my current novel could be sliced and diced into it. Anyhow..in case anyone else out there is interested in entering a procedural tv script-writing contest - here you go:



ACT 1: The ION TV Movie Contest"
The New York Television Festival has teamed up with ION
Television to offer aspiring drama writers the opportunity to
win $40,000, a development deal with ION, and the possibility
to have your original dramatic screenplay produced as a TV
movie to air on the ION Network!

Enter “Act I: The ION TV Movie Contest” and submit your
original idea for a dramatic TV movie. One winner will receive
$40,000 and a development deal with ION Television. Up to 25
finalists have the opportunity to earn a first-look deal with
ION.

Ideally, the ideas submitted by entrants will be for a two-hour
made-for-TV movie that could potentially serve as a pilot for
launching an hour-long drama procedural TV series.

We are looking for procedural dramas meant for mature
audiences. The ideal script would have a strong central
character or team of characters and a plot that focuses on the
introduction, investigation, and solution of a central problem
or mystery. An ending that leaves the door open to further
stories or sequels involving some or all of the same characters
is recommended.

The submission period will open at 12:00 noon Eastern on
October 26 and will close at 12:00 noon Eastern on January 15,
2010. $30 submission fee. To enter visit
http://www.nytvf.com/2009_ion_contest.htm


Yep, just what we need another investigative procedural episodic drama for adult audiences. Apparently we don't have enough already, every channel on must have one!! That and its very own reality series, preferably something with dancing and singing in it somewhere and lots of whiny interviews. Okay found something I'd hate to write more - a reality tv series. (Kidbro tried it recently and gave all sorts of horror tales).

Comments

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

I think that the challenge would be to try to find a procedural that isn't CSI/L&O/or surrounding the FBI. (Really, the whole genre is done to death at this point, isn't it.)

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

Thought about it and I really can't think of any new way to do it. They've done every type of private detective or investigator imaginable. I would have been happy if they continued with The Dresden Files - because I love Harry Dresden and adore Paul Blackstone. But oh well.

I'm admittedly bored of the genre - burned out on it in the 1990s. Reading every mystery novel on the planet and watching detective show mysteries on A&E and PBS will do that to you.;-)