Elephant Bucks: An Inside Guide to Writing for TV Sitcoms - Softcover

Bull, Sheldon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1932907270 ISBN 13: 9781932907278

Publisher: Michael Wiese Productions, 2007

Synopsis

Publisher Marketing: A comprehensive guide to writing a highly commerical and saleable spec sitcom script and launching your career as a TV sitcom writer. Includes detailed inside information on how to choose the right series to spec, how to pick the right story, and detailed, step by step instruction on how to write the scripts that will get you work.

About this title

About the Author

Bull has been a professional tv sitcon writer, producer, and director for thirty years. His career included: writing for MASH, developing writing and producing the hit CBS sitcom Newhart; writing and producing the ABC hit Coach starring Craig T. Nelson; and producing, writing and directing the ABC hit series Sabrina-The Teenage Witch.

Review

Sheldon Bull is not only the funniest man on two feet, but one of the mostbrilliant when it comes to explaining how to be funny, and how to organizeyour creative ideas into the sitcom form. It is the clearest, best, and to my knowledge the only how to that tells writers step by step how to write for and break into the fabulous world of TV sitcoms-- Blake Snyder, Author of Save the Cat: The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need

Edition details

• Publisher: Michael Wiese Productions
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1932907270
• ISBN 13: 9781932907278
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 266