Do you have an idea that you think would make a great movie, TV show or webisode, but have no idea how to write a screenplay? It is not uncommon for people to have a screenplay idea, but have no clue where to start. Like many other skills in life, learning to write a solid screenplay takes a good amount of research, practice and repetition. The following are some things that you can do to help yourself learn: · Read screenplays · Understand the format of a screenplay · Watch television shows and movies · Study some of the most successful screenplay writers · Come up with an idea for a screenplay · Develop screenplay ideas through outlines and storyboards Paul Schrader, who has written some of the most recognizable films of the last 40 years, did not see his first movie until the age of 17. Raised in a strict Calvinist household, Schrader has said about his higher education, “Other college kids had to vandalize government buildings. All we had to do to rebel was go to movies.” Paul Schrader was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan on July 22, 1946. When he was seventeen, he was able to sneak away from home and has said in an interview that The Absent-Minded Professor was the first film he saw; while it did not impress him, Wild in the Country, which he saw some time later, did make an impact. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Calvin College, with a minor in Theology. He went on to attend UCLA Film School, receiving a recommendation from Pauline Kael, a renowned film critic who wrote for The New Yorker magazine among other publications. Schrader earned his Master of Arts in Film Studies and became a film critic, writing for the Los Angeles Free Press, and later Cinema magazine. Schrader quickly established a name for himself as a critic with an intellectual approach to film, rather than an emotional approach; a trait that he ascribes to having no adolescent movie experiences. In 1974, Schrader and his brother Leonard co-wrote The Yakuza, a film set in the world of the eponymous Japanese crime syndicate. The script was the subject of an unprecedented bidding war, eventually selling for the unheard-of sum of $325,000; more than any other screenplay up to that time. Although the film failed commercially, it brought Schrader to the forefront, and to the attention to several Hollywood directors. He wrote the screenplay of Obsession for Brian De Palma in 1975, and shortly afterwards the screenplay for the Martin Scorsese classic Taxi Driver. Schrader has said about the screenplay, “At the time I wrote it, I was in a rather low and bad place. I had broken with Pauline [film critic Pauline Kael], I had broken with my wife, I had broken with the woman I left my wife for, I had broken with the American Film Institute and I was in debt.” Scorsese would turn to Schrader for more screenplays, notably Raging Bull in 1980, The Last Temptation of Christ in 1988, and Bringing Out the Dead in 1999. Schrader also wrote such well-known films as American Gigolo, which he also directed. He has directed a total of 17 feature films, in addition to writing; the majority of his films have been immensely successful and many of his films are viewed as classics. A recurring theme in Schrader’s films is the protagonist on a self-destructive path, or taking actions which are counter-productive—either deliberately or unconsciously. The finale frequently bears a redemptive element, generally preceded by a painful sacrifice. Schrader has said of his characters, “What fascinates me are people who want to be one thing but who behave in a way contradictory to that. Who might say, ‘I want to be happy, but I keep doing things that make me unhappy.’” Although many of the films Schrader has written and directed are based on real-life biographies, he has confessed to having problems with the genre of biographical films, due to the way in which actual events are altered. He has tried to prevent this by imposing structures and stylization instead, in his own films. While Schrader has not won an Academy Award of his own, many of the actors in films he has written and directed have been nominated for the Oscar. He has been nominated multiple times for the Golden Globe Awards. Schrader has won the Franklin J. Schaffner Award from the American Film Institute, and he headed the International Jury of the 2007 Berlin International Film Festival, and in 2011 became a jury member for the Filmaka short film contest. New Show Studios is a company designed specifically for everyday people with ideas for screens big and small (TV shows, movies, webisodes). The company has all the resources under one roof to develop your screenplay idea into a concept package and present it to an entertainment company through its exclusive licensing agent, SFM Entertainment. SFM Entertainment has over 40 years of experience in the entertainment industry. Don’t be the person kicking yourself because you sat on your idea only to see it in theaters or on television one day, because someone else had a similar idea. New Show Studios can help you take action and pursue your screenplay idea. Remember that even with the best presentation materials new entertainment development is high risk and there is very little likelihood that your idea will be successfully licensed or result in profit to you.
The people who have worked to become a successful TV writer come from many different places and backgrounds. Many did not even work in the entertainment industry- they were just everyday people with an idea. Most successful TV writers started at the bottom, worked odd jobs at some point, and overcame some sort of obstacle or hardship to get where they are today.
David E. Kelley is known as the creator of Picket Fences, Chicago Hope, and Ally McBeal among other successful television shows. Born April 4, 1956 in Waterville, Maine, Kelley was raised in Massachusetts and attended the Belmont High School. He studied at Princeton University, graduating in 1979 with a degree in politics. He went on to Boston University School of Law where he received his Juris Doctor. While there, Kelley wrote for the Legal Follies, a sketch comedy group which still holds annual performances. He began working for a Boston law firm after completing his degree and in 1983, Kelley began writing a screenplay. Though he considered it only a hobby, the legal thriller was optioned by a studio in 1986 and became From the Hip, released in 1987.
In 1986, Steven Bochco was looking for writers with a law background for a new legal series in the works with NBC, titled L.A. Law. After seeing Kelley’s screenplay for From the Hip, Bochco made him a writer and story editor for the show. Kelley kept his law office in Boston as a hedge in the first year; however, as his involvement in the show expanded, he became executive story editor and co-producer until in 1989, Bochco left the series entirely, making Kelley the executive producer. Kelley left the show after the fifth season in 1991, but was brought back as a consultant when the ratings fell.
Kelley formed his own production company in 1992 after co-creating Doogie Howser, M.D. David E Kelley productions made a three-series deal with CBS, with its first creation, Picket Fences airing in 1992. The show was critically acclaimed but the audience was never sizeable enough to sustain it. Picket Fences ran for four years, earning a total of 14 Emmy awards including consecutive wins for Outstanding Drama Series. Though Kelley did not feel ready to produce two shows at one time, he bowed to pressure from CBS to develop a second show and in 1994 launched the medical drama Chicago Hope. Much like Picket Fences, Chicago Hope would receive high critical praise, but only average ratings. Kelley ended up writing most of the material for both shows, though he only initially intended to write the first several episodes of Chicago Hope, a total of roughly 40 scripts. Kelley ceased day-to-day involvement with both shows in 1995; however, when Chicago Hope faced cancelation in 1999, Kelley came back into production, firing most of the cast members who had been added since he left the show and bringing back star Mandy Patinkin, and resumed writing episodes.
Kelley would go on to write and produce Ally McBeal, which premiered in 1997 on Fox, and later Boston Public, which ran for four years starting in 2000. The deal which Fox made with Kelley, in place for six years starting in 2000, reportedly made Kelley the highest-paid producer in TV history in return for first-look rights at his projects. The same deal produced Boston Legal, which premiered in 2004. From 2007 to the present, Kelley has continued to write for television, with mixed results; The Wedding Bells premiered in fall 2007, but was canceled after seven episodes. Kelley was the creator and executive producer of Harry’s Law which premiered in January 2011; it was canceled in 2012 even though it was the network’s second most-watched drama because its audience included too little of the 18-49 demographic.
In addition to writing for television, Kelley has successfully written several screenplays, including Lake Placid in 1999 and To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday in 1996. Kelley has won 10 Emmy Awards and been nominated for several more, along with receiving four prestigious Peabody Awards.
Anyone can make a TV show, movie or webisode concept presentation package with New Show Studios. You do not need special credentials, background or a college degree to pursue an idea. As long as you have a clear idea of what your basic idea is and you are able to verbalize this, New Show Studios is happy to help.
New Show Studios can help you take action and pursue your TV show, movie or webisode idea. The company has a unique method of creating show concept packages that give network and movie studio executives a professional quality view of your idea. They can take your idea, develop and package it into a demonstration video and send it off to producers and executives in the entertainment industry.
Remember that even with the best presentation materials new entertainment development is high risk and there is very little likelihood that your idea will be successfully licensed or result in profit to you.
Do you have an idea that you think would make a great movie, TV show or webisode, but have no idea how to write a screenplay? It is not uncommon for people to have a screenplay idea, but have no clue where to start.
Like many other skills in life, learning to write a solid screenplay takes a good amount of research, practice and repetition. The following are some things that you can do to help yourself learn:
· Read screenplays
· Understand the format of a screenplay
· Watch television shows and movies
· Study some of the most successful screenplay writers
· Come up with an idea for a screenplay
· Develop screenplay ideas through outlines and storyboards
While Neil Simon is generally recognized more as a playwright, he also has a prolific list of screenplays and television scripts to his name, as well as several credits as a producer. Simon has written over thirty plays and has nearly the same number of film screenplays. He has received more Oscar and Tony nominations than any other writer, and has been active in the entertainment industry from 1950.
Neil Simon was born in the Bronx, New York in 1927 and grew up in Manhattan during the Great Depression. He graduated from DeWitt Clinton High School when he was sixteen, and went on to join the Army Air Force Reserve at New York University. He began writing as a sports editor and attended the University of Denver while stationed at Lowry Air Force Base from 1945 to 1946. He briefly worked as a mailroom clerk in the Warner Brothers offices in Manhattan, a job he would leave to work with his brother Danny Simon in writing radio and television scripts. He helped write for the radio series the Robert Q. Lewis Show, which led to other writing jobs. Eventually they were hired by Sid Caesar to work on the popular comedy television series Your Show of Shows, for which Simon earned two Emmy Award nominations.
Simon’s first Broadway play, Come Blow Your Horn, debuted in 1961. It went on to run for 678 performances and marked a turning point in his career. Simon would go on to write eight more plays by 1970, and frequently had two or more plays running at the same time. During 1966, in fact, Simon had four shows running in Broadway theatres at the same time: Sweet Charity, The Star-Spangled Girl, The Odd Couple, and Barefoot in the Park. Beginning in the late 1960s and early 70s, Simon began writing screenplays, initially as adaptations of his Broadway productions, but later working on original screenplays as well, including 1976’s Murder by Death and 1983’s Max Dugan Returns. Simon has also continued to work in television, writing adaptations for the TV version of The Odd Couple and multiple television movies, as well as individual episodes of other shows.
Neil Simon’s characters are typically likeable and easy for the audience to identify with; a trademark of his work has always been the incorporation of autobiographical and personal elements into his stories. The majority of Simon’s plays and screenplays are set in New York; within that urban setting, Simon has explored themes ranging from marital conflict, sibling rivalry, infidelity, bereavement, and fear of aging. The humor of Simon’s works typically lies in the ordinary, imperfect and unheroic characters he portrays. As one critic has noted, “Simon is simply interested in showing human beings as they are—with their foibles, eccentricities, and absurdities.” Another of Simon’s strengths is his flair in dialogue for rapid-fire jokes and wisecracks, with a form that presents serious topics in such a way that audiences can laugh at them.
Most of Simon’s work has received somewhat mixed reviews, with critics admiring his comedy skills but with other critics pointing out flaws in his dramatic structure, stating that he relies too heavily on gags and one-liners. However, beginning in 1991, when Simon won the Pulitzer Prize for drama with Lost in Yonkers, that critics began to regard Simon’s work in a more uniformly positive light. In addition to the Pulitzer Prize, Simon has been nominated for several Academy Awards, and has won several Golden Globe Awards for best screenplay, as well as winning Emmy Awards, and being nominated by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts for various screenplays. He has earned two Honorary Doctorate degrees, one from Hofstra University and another from Williams College. He also has a Broadway theatre named for him, and is an honorary member of the board of trustees.
New Show Studios is a company designed specifically for everyday people with ideas for screens big and small (TV shows, movies, webisodes). The company has all the resources under one roof to develop your screenplay idea into a concept package and present it to an entertainment company through its exclusive licensing agent, SFM Entertainment. SFM Entertainment has over 40 years of experience in the entertainment industry.
Don’t be the person kicking yourself because you sat on your idea only to see it in theaters or on television one day, because someone else had a similar idea. New Show Studios can help you take action and pursue your screenplay idea.
Remember that even with the best presentation materials new entertainment development is high risk and there is very little likelihood that your idea will be successfully licensed or result in profit to you.
On February 24, 2013, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presented its annual Academy Awards (known as the Oscars) to honor the best films of 2012 in the United States. The ceremony was held at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, California with Seth MacFarlane hosting for the first time. The nominees included several established talents as well as some filmmakers and talents that had not as yet made their mark on the industry. Among the various categories, the Academy honors the Best Picture, and Best Animated Feature as well as offering two categories related to screenwriting: Best Original Screenplay and Best Adapted Screenplay.
In the category of Best Animated Feature, the film Brave won the Oscar. Written and directed by Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman, Brave is set in the Scottish highlands and centers on Merida, the daughter of King Fergus of Clan Dunbroch. While Merida is practicing with the bow she receives from her father for her birthday, she encounters a will-o’-the-wisp. Years later, at 16, Merida is informed that she is to be betrothed to one of her father’s allied clans; her mother warns her that her failure to marry could harm Dunbroch, but Merida is dissatisfied with the arrangement. Merida defeats each of her suitors in an archery contest; she and her mother argue, and Merida slashes the family tapestry between the images of herself and her mother Elinor, while Elinor burns Merida’s bow. Merida runs into a witch, who offers to give her a spell to change her mother. Oblivious to her mother’s regret, Merida gives her mother the spell-cake, which transforms her mother (much to Merida’s surprise) into a large brown bear. The two find the witch, who informs them that Merida must “mend the bond torn by pride.” Merida and Elinor reconcile, with Merida figuring out that mending the tapestry will reverse the spell. Elinor is slowly losing her human personality, and Merida’s triplet brothers have turned into bear cubs as a result of the spell; Elinor attacks her husband before regaining human consciousness and fleeing. Merida intervenes before her mother is killed, and Elinor saves Merida from Mor’du. The spell is reversed and the peace is restored, both in the family and among the clans.
Brave was announced in April 2008, and is production company Pixar’s first fairy tale film. Merida is the first female lead protagonist in a Pixar film, and has received a positive critical response. It is the thirteenth highest-grossing film of 2012, earning a total of $535,383,207 as of the Oscars. In addition to the Academy Award, Brave has won the Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film.
If you have a screenplay idea that you think would make a good movie or TV show, New Show Studios can help. Don’t find yourself living in regret that you never pursued the film or TV idea you have; New Show Studios has all the resources that it takes to help real people develop a screenplay idea into a concept package and present it to entertainment companies. New Show Studios works through its licensing agent, SFM Entertainment, a company with over 40 years of experience in the entertainment industry.
Remember that even with the best presentation materials new entertainment development is high risk and there is very little likelihood that your idea will be successfully licensed or result in profit to you.
There is a wide variety of different types of reality television shows out there. There are dating shows, makeover shows, home remodeling shows, ones that follow the lives of celebrities and more. But one thing that every popular reality TV show has in common is that they all began as just an idea.
Room Raiders is a series that combines the features of a dating program with a reality format. On the show, three men or women have their rooms inspected or “raided” by another single man or woman. The raider does not meet or see any of the three singles, and makes his or her choice on who to date based solely on the contents of the rooms. The three contestants watch the raids taking place from a van and make comments or jokes. When the raider has finished with each of the three rooms, the three contestants then raid the raider’s room. The raider confronts the three and makes his or her choice. Typically the contestants and raider are opposite sexes, though some episodes feature gay or lesbian contestants/raiders. The first episode was filmed at Tulane University and featured Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey raiding each other’s rooms for the purposes of promoting the show. There have been eight seasons of the show, including Room Raiders II, Room Raiders: Miami, and the most recent Room Raiders 2.0. Beginning in the Miami season, each episode has a theme; for example “Best Friends,” “Twins,” or “Double Trouble.” Several episodes also feature celebrity guests. The show’s running time is thirty minutes per episode, with the segments fitted around the commercial breaks.
It was created by Sara Nichols, who also worked on Total Access 24/7, as well as producing video documentaries like From Janet. To Damita Jo: The Videos. Nichols has worked on productions for Lifetime, MTV, NBC, Nickelodeon and ABC Family. She was born in Buffalo, NY and attended Syracuse University, earning two degrees: a Bachelor of Fine Arts from The College of Visual and Performing Arts and a Bachelor of Science from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. Nichols founded the company Emotional Pictures. Nichols has also worked on TV series such as Gastineau Girls, Growing Up Gotti, and has worked with individuals in a variety of positions in the entertainment world including Stanley Tucci, Uma Thurman, Chris Rock, Beyoncé, and the band Evanescence.
Room Raiders premiered in 2004, with episodes still being produced to date. MTV has a history of off-beat dating programs and an even more storied history in the reality TV genre. In the early 2000s, the reality genre exploded in popularity, and multiple channels capitalized on the format to attempt to produce low-cost programming. MTV brought its experience in dating programs and reality television together into a new format. The show airs in Lithuania as well as the United States, where it premiered in 2010 on the channel LNK.
If you have a reality show idea of your own, New Show Studios can help you take action and pursue it. The company has a unique method of creating show concept packages that give network and movie studio executives a professional quality view of your idea. They can take your reality show idea, develop and package it into a demonstration video and send it off to producers and executives in the entertainment industry.
Anyone can make a reality TV show concept presentation package with New Show Studios. You do not need special credentials, background or a college degree to pursue an idea. As long as you have a clear idea of what your basic idea is and you are able to verbalize this, New Show Studios is happy to help.
Remember that even with the best presentation materials new entertainment development is high risk and there is very little likelihood that your idea will be successfully licensed or result in profit to you.
The reality TV show genre has been around since the 1980’s, but it really exploded around the year 2000. Today there is a wide variety of different types of reality television shows out there including dating shows, makeover shows, cooking shows, ones that follow the lives of celebrities and more. While many reality TV shows are competitions where cast members get voted or kicked off throughout the season, some feature a constant cast that viewers get to see each week and really get to know and love. One reality TV show cast that viewers have fallen in love with is the cast of Duck Dynasty. The program follows the Robertson family, who are all involved in the running of the Duck Commander Company, the business that Phil Alexander Robertson, the patriarch, began in 1973 with the innovative duck call of the same name. The company now makes a variety of products for duck hunting enthusiasts, though its flagship products are still duck calls. The cast includes Phil Robertson and his wife, Marsha Kay or “Miss Kay,” Phil’s younger brother Silas or “Si,” and Phil’s three sons: Willie, who is the company CEO, Jason or Jase, in charge of manufacturing, and Jules Jeptha, or “Jep,” who films and edits the DVDs of the Robertson family hunting. The show also features the men’s wives, with the exception of Silas’ wife, and a few cast members who are not related to the Robertson family, but who are either employees or otherwise connected to the family and business. The show airs on the A&E Network; the family was previously featured on the series Benelli Presents Duck Commander, which aired on the Outdoor Channel. Interest in the family increased beyond the niche market of the Outdoor Channel, and A&E produced Duck Dynasty. The Robertson family is no doubt popular among viewers because of the fact that their business is their passion; almost every episode features several of the family members either hunting or going fishing outside of their work day. The family business model is also intriguing: every part of the family assists with the running of the family, including the matriarch, “Miss Kay.” There is also the aspect of the show that its subject matter naturally sheds light on unpretentious rural family values. The characters are not rude, but they are not stuffy. The men all have long, flowing beards; the women are polished but no-nonsense. The interest in a family that works together and interacts not just interpersonally but also professionally is high. Viewers have latched onto the lifestyle of the family, and are interested in their continued success. If you have a reality show idea of your own, New Show Studios can help you take action and pursue it. The company has a unique method of creating show concept packages that give network and movie studio executives a professional quality view of your idea. They can take your reality show idea, develop and package it into a demonstration video and send it off to producers and executives in the entertainment industry. Anyone can make a reality TV show concept presentation package with New Show Studios. You do not need special credentials, background or a college degree to pursue an idea. As long as you have a clear idea of what your basic idea is and you are able to verbalize this, New Show Studios is happy to help. Remember that even with the best presentation materials new entertainment development is high risk and there is very little likelihood that your idea will be successfully licensed or result in profit to you. Do you have an idea for a new TV show, movie or webisode? Click here to submit your idea.
A screenplay, also called a script, is a written work by screenwriters for a film or television show. Learning how to write a solid screenplay takes a good amount of research, practice and repetition. Watching movies and television shows and studying successful screenplays and writers are some things that you can do to help yourself learn. Listed below are two of the best screenplays to come out in 2005 that are worth checking out.
In 2005, Brokeback Mountain won the Academy Award for the Best Adapted Screenplay. The film courted controversy for its depiction of a homosexual relationship, and among the film’s fans, for being “snubbed” in the Academy Awards category of Best Picture. The story follows Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist, who are hired by Joe Aguirre to herd his sheep through the summer. After a night of heavy drinking, Jack makes a pass at Ennis, who is initially apprehensive but eventually succumbs. He informs Jack that it was a one-time incident; however, they develop an intense romantic relationship. After learning their summer together is to be shortened, they get into a fight, with each ending up bloodied. Ennis marries his longtime fiancée and Jack eventually meets and marries a rodeo rider named Lureen Newsome. After four years, Jack visits Ennis, and Ennis’s wife witnesses the two kissing passionately. The marriages of both men deteriorate as they meet for infrequent fishing trips. Ennis divorces his wife, and after refusing Jack’s offer to live together, Jack gets involved in increasingly dangerous trysts. At the end of a fishing trip, Ennis tries to push back their next meeting, and the two fight again. Sometime later, a postcard Ennis sends to Jack is returned “Deceased.” Ennis offers to scatter Jack’s ashes on Brokeback Mountain, but Jack’s family declines. Jack’s mother allows Ennis to keep two shirts which Jack had taken, the shirts both men were wearing when they fought.
In addition to the Academy Awards, Brokeback Mountain earned the BAFTA awards for Best Adapted Screenplay, and was also honored in the Golden Globes awards for Best Screenplay and Best Motion Picture. The film earned over $178 million at box offices and received widespread critical acclaim.
That same year, Crash won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. This film won the Best Picture award at the Academy Awards, attracting controversy from those who preferred Brokeback Mountain to win. The script interweaves the stories of several characters over a course of two days in Los Angeles, showing the unwitting way their lives impact each other: a black detective who is estranged from his mother and his younger brother, who is a criminal and a gang associate; the white District Attorney and his pampered wife, a racist white police officer and his younger partner, an African American Hollywood director and his wife, a Persian immigrant and his daughter, and a Hispanic locksmith. The film is noteworthy in that its portrayal shows the fact that many of these victims of racism are capable of being racist themselves in different context. The complicated plot ends with the Persian man being saved from his attempt to kill the Hispanic locksmith by the fact that his daughter, with whom he had been fighting before, chose blank bullets for his gun; a gang member sets a group of illegal Asian immigrants who were victims of human trafficking free, and the detective discovering his brother has been killed over a misunderstanding. The complex plot and ensemble cast, mixing well-known actors with veritably unknown talent, was released in 2004 in some countries, though not until 2005 in the United States.
Crash earned the BAFTA award for Best Original Screenplay, and earned over $98 million at the box office, several times over its $7 million budget. The film received generally positive views, although many critics took exception to its portrayal of racial issues.
Do you have a screenplay idea that you think would make a great movie or TV show? New Show Studios can help you take action and pursue your screenplay idea. It is a company based in Pittsburgh that’s designed specifically for everyday people with ideas for screens big and small. New Show Studios has all the resources under one roof to develop your screenplay idea into a concept package and present it to an entertainment company through its exclusive licensing agent, SFM Entertainment. SFM Entertainment has over 40 years of experience in the entertainment industry.
Remember that even with the best presentation materials new entertainment development is high risk and there is very little likelihood that your idea will be successfully licensed or result in profit to you.
There is a wide variety of different types of reality television shows out there. There are dating shows, makeover shows, home remodeling shows, ones that follow the lives of celebrities and more. But one thing that every popular reality TV show has in common is that they all began as just an idea.
Dirty Jobs stars Mike Rowe as the host, performing difficult, strange, disgusting or otherwise messy occupations alongside the typical employees. In the course of the show, a worker or team takes on Rowe as a fully involved assistant for a typical work day, attempting to complete every task as well as he can in spite of discomfort, hazards, or personal revulsion. The crew, which includes a field producer, cameramen, and an audio technician, typically also get dirty due to the proximity, and are sometimes pulled in to help as well. Rowe makes jokes, usually of a self-deprecating variety, though he also takes occasional jabs at the producer Dave Barsky; rarely does he make more than the occasional playful jab at the workers he is assisting. The opening of the show features the Rowe commenting—usually in the midst of a dirty task—“My name’s Mike Rowe, and this is my job. I explore the country looking for people who aren't afraid to get dirty — hard-working men and women who earn an honest living doing the kinds of jobs that make civilized life possible for the rest of us. Now, get ready to get dirty.” The show’s setting was changed to Australia for the eighth season, and was advertised as Dirty Jobs Down Under; however, the other seasons have all featured American locations. The show was canceled after 8 seasons in November 2012; the first non-pilot episode aired on July 26, 2005.
The show was actually created by host Mike Rowe, who has also worked as a narrator for multiple programs, including How the Universe Works, American Chopper, and Ghost Hunters. Starting in September of 2012, Rowe began hosting How Booze Built America on the Discovery Channel. He was originally tapped to be the on-screen hose of Deadliest Catch; however, when Dirty Jobs was picked up, he was told to choose which show he wanted to appear in on-screen. Rowe was apparently informed by Discovery at the time that the two shows would air back-to-back on the same night, and the change of tone and style would be unsuitable. Rowe has also worked as a spokesperson for multiple companies, including Ford Motor Company, Lee Premium Select Jeans, and Caterpillar. Rowe was born in Baltimore, Maryland in March of 1962, and became an Eagle Scout in 1979; his service project included reading aloud to students at the Maryland School for the Blind, which is what initially interested him in narrating. He would go on to sing professionally at the Baltimore Opera before working for QVC in the early 1990s.
While hosting Evening Magazine, a program on a local San Francisco channel, Rowe appeared on a segment called “Somebody’s Gotta Do It,” which profiled a number of unpleasant professions; the concept would be the genesis of the show Dirty Jobs. After completing a graphic piece on artificial insemination of cows, Rowe received countless letters expressing shock, horror, and disbelief, and sent the tape to the Discovery Channel, who commissioned the series.
If you have a reality show idea of your own, New Show Studios can help you take action and pursue it. The company has a unique method of creating show concept packages that give network and movie studio executives a professional quality view of your idea. They can take your reality show idea, develop and package it into a demonstration video and send it off to producers and executives in the entertainment industry.
Anyone can make a reality TV show concept presentation package with New Show Studios. You do not need special credentials, background or a college degree to pursue an idea. As long as you have a clear idea of what your basic idea is and you are able to verbalize this, New Show Studios is happy to help.
Remember that even with the best presentation materials new entertainment development is high risk and there is very little likelihood that your idea will be successfully licensed or result in profit to you.
__Do you have an idea that you think would make a great movie, TV show or webisode, but have no idea how to write a screenplay? It is not uncommon for people to have a screenplay idea, but have no clue where to start. Like many other skills in life, learning to write a solid screenplay takes a good amount of research, practice and repetition. The following are some things that you can do to help yourself learn: · Read screenplays · Understand the format of a screenplay · Watch television shows and movies · Study some of the most successful screenplay writers · Come up with an idea for a screenplay · Develop screenplay ideas through outlines and storyboards Paddy Chayefsky was an American screenwriter and novelist who had a distinguished ability in complex plot progression. He is the only person who won three solo Academy Awards for Best Screenplay. He was also considered as one of the most successful dramatists of the Golden Age of television. Chayefsky’s screenplays contained a distinctive intimate, realistic and naturalistic style of television drama in the 1950s. He was seen as a pioneer for the Kitchen Sink Realism movement, a movement that started in 1950s where heroes in art were seen as angry young men. Most screenplays in this movement used a style of social realism. Chayefsky gained the reputation as a realist for his style of scripting. His significance in dialogue was able to overshadow the art of stage sets in television, which let his style of writing adapt to the television scene in a little amount of time. His screenplays often reflected the struggles of the human condition and the life of ordinary, hard-working people trying to maintain a middle class life. One of his greatest screenplays was a film based on the life of Marilyn Monroe, called The Goddess. He won two Oscars for The Hospital, which was referred to as a "lethally funny account of American social benevolence collapsing in its own bureaucratic chaos,” according to historian David Thomson. Chayefsky’s screenplay Network was nominated for ten Academy Awards and won four. Chayefsky’s screenwriting provided actor Peter Finch with one of the most iconic movie lines in film history. Finch played a news anchor who advised people on national television to go up to their windows and yell out with him, “I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take this anymore!” New Show Studios is a company designed specifically for everyday people with ideas for screens big and small (TV shows, movies, webisodes). The company has all the resources under one roof to develop your screenplay idea into a concept package and present it to an entertainment company through its exclusive licensing agent, SFM Entertainment. SFM Entertainment has over 40 years of experience in the entertainment industry. Don’t be the person kicking yourself because you sat on your idea only to see it in theaters or on television one day, because someone else had a similar idea. New Show Studios can help you take action and pursue your screenplay idea. Do you have an idea for a new TV show, movie or webisode? Click here to submit your idea.
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