We’re currently in a clear Golden Age of TV. With audiences’ increasing desires for escapism and purely bingeable TV, it has never been this good. And there have never been as many opportunities for screenwriters to write for TV. There were a record 599 original scripted drama, comedy, and limited TV shows aired in 2022. That’s a lot of pages of TV that need to be written.

Some of the best writing happens for TV. Some of the best stories being told are being told on TV. When it comes to television, it’s a writer’s world. Writers become producers and showrunners of TV shows. 

Streaming services like Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, Disney+, HBO Max, Apple TV+ are eager to find TV writers with unique voices. That is what our competition is for. We want to find undiscovered talented TV writers and connect them with the industry, so one day they’ll be able to write for their favorite TV Show. So, finish your TV Pilot script, submit it to our competition and let us do the rest. 

Our Judges who have won Emmy Awards, Golden Globes, and Writer's Guild Awards will decide this year’s TV Pilot Winner. These are all writers and producers who have written and produced and are still writing and producing for some of the best Outstanding Tv Series available today. 

The Jury:

Top TV Pilot scripts are considered by our unprecedented Emmy Award-winning and Writer's Guild Award-winning writers, creators, producers, managers and literary agents. Our jury includes:

Monica Beletsky - Creator and Showrunner of Manhunt - Emmy Award Nominee

Monica Beletsky is an accomplished screenwriter, television writer and producer known for her work on several high-profile TV series. Currently she is most known as the creator, executive producer, and showrunner of Apple TV+ miniseries "Manhunt."

Previously she was a writer and producer for the third season of the FX series, Fargo. Past writing and producing credits include the drama series The Leftovers (winner of the Peabody Award in 2016), Friday Night Lights, and the first four seasons of Parenthood.

In 2017, she was nominated for an Emmy Award for Best Limited Series and a PGA and a WGA Award  for Fargo. In 2011, she was on the team of writers nominated for a Writers Guild of America award for Best Drama series for the fourth and fifth seasons of Friday Night Lights.

In 2019, Monica Beletsky received an overall TV development deal from Apple TV+, where she developed the miniseries Manhunt, about the hunt for Abraham Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth. "Manhunt" premiered on Apple TV+ on March 15, 2024 as a 7 episode miniseries. Beletsky's leadership and creative vision have been crucial in shaping the show's unique style and ensuring its critical acclaim. "Manhunt" stands as a testament to her ability to tackle complex historical narratives and creating thought-provoking, high-quality television content.

Susan Soon He Stanton - Producer and Writer on HBO’s Succession - Emmy Award Winner - Susan Soon He Stanton on IMDB

Susan is a playwright, television writer, and screenwriter based between New York and London. Susan is a producer/writer on HBO’s Succession, for which she has won an Emmy, a WGA and Peabody Award. Upcoming television work includes HBO/Sister Picture’s THE BABY, Amazon’s Modern Love, Amazon/Annapurna’s Dead Ringers, Hulu/Element Pictures/BBC’s Conversation with Friends adapted from the novel by Sally Rooney, as well as several projects in development. She has worked on projects for Amazon, Annapurna, Netflix, and Pixar, among others.  
Her plays have been produced internationally and regionally across the United States. In film, she is a co-writer for the award-winning feature film Brooklyn Love Stories. She received a Feature Film Development Grant and Screenwriting Award from the Sloan Foundation.
She has taught playwriting at UT Austin’s MFA Program, SUNY Purchase, New York University, Yale University, as well as various other institutions regionally and internationally.


Erik Bork - Producer and Writer on HBO's Band of Brothers - Two Times Emmy Award Winner & Two Times Golden Globe Award Winner

Erik is a Two-Times Emmy Award-winning & Two Times Golden Globe Award-winning screenwriter, producer, script consultant, and blogger best known for his work on the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers and From the Earth to the Moon. He got his start in Hollywood as an assistant to Tom Hanks, who gave him the opportunity to help write and produce From the Earth to the Moon, after reading some sitcom spec scripts he had written. Bork has sold series pitches and written pilots at NBC and FOX worked on the writing staff for two primetime dramas, and written feature screenplays on assignment for companies including Universal Studios, HBO, TNT, and Playtone.
He also teaches screenwriting for UCLA Extension, National University and The Writers Store, and offers one-on-one consulting to writers. His multi-category Amazon best-selling book THE IDEA: The Seven Elements of a Viable Story for Screen, Stage, or Fiction was released in 2018. For more info check his webpage https://www.flyingwrestler.com.

The Prizes:

TWO Grand Prize Winners:

1HR Grand Prize Winner will receive: 

- $1,000 CASH AWARD

- MENTORSHIP with Emmy Winner ERIK BORK  (writer on HBO's Band of Brothers)

- The Idea - an exclusive Online Course from Erik Bork ($500 value)

- Your script will be sent to our Judges & specially chosen members of our Industry contacts 

- Script development with Outstanding Screenplays, with our help and suggestions on how to get your TV Pilot produced 

1/2HR Grand Prize Winner will receive: 

- $1,000 CASH AWARD

- MENTORSHIP with Emmy Winner SUSAN SOON HE STANTON (writer on Succession) 

- The Idea - an exclusive Online Course from Erik Bork ($500 value)

- Your script will be sent to our Judges & specially chosen members of our Industry contacts 

- Script development with Outstanding Screenplays, with our help and suggestions on how to get your TV Pilot produced 

Top 15 Finalists:

The top 15 Finalists will receive: 

* Each of the 15 finalists will receive an EXCLUSIVE one page written feedback report from one of our 6 Emmy Award Winning and Writer's Guild Award Winning/Nominated judges! 

* Each of the 15 finalists will receive a collection of 5 Audio classes by Erik Bork (including Story Concept, Main Character, Act One, Act Two, Act Three) (15 x $49 value). 

Quarter-Finalists:

* All quartefinalists, semifinalist, finalists and winners will be published on our Instagram and all our other social media accounts. We currently have more than 2.1 Million followers combined and this will be an important exposure for you and will create more opportunities for your screenplay and your writing career. 

* Your script will be sent to our Judges & specially chosen members of our industry contacts. You don’t need to be one of our finalists to have your script sent out. If we notice an interesting script that we know a certain producer, agent, or manager will be interested to read, we'll contact you and ask if we can send it to a certain industry contact.

All Entries: 

We’re on a mission to help and support ALL screenwriters who enter our competitions, not just the finalists and winners. If you have written a TV script and submit to our competition, this shows your intent that you are serious about your screenwriting career. We value that intent. Just with entering you will immediately get on our radar and we will monitor your development from script to script and how your writing is improving. 

In addition, EVERYONE who enters will receive:

* FREE eBook THE IDEA by Erik Bork - Regularly listed on the top 10 lists of the best Screenwriting books, The Idea, written by Multiple Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning writer/producer Erik Bork (HBO’s Band of Brothers) takes a different approach to the craft of screenwriting. It's all about selecting that initial idea. A clever, well thought out initial idea is what will motivate Hollywood “gatekeepers” to read your script.