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Learn how to create, write and pitch TV show ideas that can sell as a new TV series. We’ll talk about creating original TV show ideas, how to communicate them in a written pitch treatment, an…

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When college kids make mashups of Hollywood movies, are they violating the law? Not necessarily, according to the latest study (PDF) on copyright and creativity from the Center and American University’s Washington College of Law.

PMC produced East Los High in association with Wise Entertainment as a Hulu original series for hulu.com. The 24-episode first season aired on June 3, 2013; the second season aired on July 9, 2014; season three aired on July 15, 2015; and season four aired on July 15, 2016. The finale aired on December 1, 2017.

Four years ago, Alan Yang wrote a pilot about a father and son. Both characters were white. At the time, Yang, whose own father is from Taiwan, was a writer for “Parks and Recreation,” and Greg Daniels, a “Parks” executive producer, was advising Yang as he worked on the script. “Why not make the father

From Happy Days to The Wonder Years, television has long looked to the past for inspiration. Some new shows dig into 1980s and '90s nostalgia: The Get Down, Stranger Things and MacGyver among them.

Truly great professionals understand the difference between what should never change and what should be open for change, between what is genuinely sacred and what is not. This rare ability to manage continuity and change--requiring a consciously practiced discipline--is closely...

It’s never too early to start planning your viewing habits for the fall TV season (and get a jump on any new DVR conflicts!), so TVLine as is tradition has compiled a day-by-day, hour-by-hour grid…

Every show you need to watch this fall

Regardless of how you define TV, there’s no mistaking the impact that advancing technology, internet connectivity, mobility, device fragmentation and platform diversity have had on the video industry. The result? A seemingly endless array of content that offers enough variety for even the pickiest of viewers.

A television series does not come into existence without it first being an “idea” that is compelling enough to drive the entire development, production and marketing process.

TV/Film Producer Scott Manville on Creating, Pitching & Selling Ideas to Hollywood. Insider Advice, Stories & Discussions.