The New Television Marketplace

The last decade has been a golden age for television writers. There was no concept so wild, no set of characters so diverse, no potential audience so small that some buyer wouldn’t gamble on it. For the first time in history, when they said they wanted new voices and new visions, they really meant it. And then the strikes hit. And Wall Street hit. And now everybody’s afraid to buy anything from anyone. But of course, they still need new shows. They’re going to have to buy something. It’s just that what they want to buy may not match up with what you want to write. And the days when buyers care about what you want to write are gone, maybe forever. William Rabkin has been a TV writer for close to forty years, and he's never seen a market for new projects as bad as it is now. If you want to have any chance at all to set up a project anywhere, you need to understand what the studios, streamers and networks are willing to buy in this suddenly panic-driven marketplace. This OnDemand webinar