After three years of reboots, sequels and prequels, the market for original scripts is finally sizzling again in Hollywood. No fewer than 18 spec scripts – screenplays written without a contract – ...

I know I'm not alone in writing the easiest, loudest emotional beat in the toolkit: the dead wife. Or the murdered girlfriend ...

Shorr's spec script scared up a frenzy among producers.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An unknown writer, a fast-rising feeding frenzy, and a true multimillion-dollar deal. It’s enough to make executives or aspiring ...

The very idea of a spec script — an original script written by an aspiring or low-level TV writer for a show already on the air — is one of the television industry’s great paradoxes. A good spec will ...

After a competitive bidding war, Fifth Season, the financing and production banner formerly known as Endeavor Content, and Brad Weston’s Makeready banner have acquired the spec script “Alignment” from ...