Sitcom treatment example

The Treatments I help my writers write are all under 10 pages. Any more and we are getting into short film territory and that is not where Producers of tv want to be.

Remember – we are cash rich but time poor. Do not write a word unless it holds its weight.

I write about this and lots of other writing related things in my book Writing for Television Series, Serials and Soaps but I will add the condensed elements of what makes a great Treatment and how to write one here.

Here is my easy to assimilate, Go To approach to writing the definitive tv Treatment.

Follow this. You won’t go wrong.

TITLE:

Make yours really sell your idea by being the best you can make it.

My favourite titles?

Film treatment examples

‘Fleabag’. ‘Halt and Catch Fire’. Sometimes it’s better that the title describes what’s in the tin, so to speak eg: ‘The Bodyguard’ or, to take an example of a show for CITV that I Produced; ‘My Dad’s A Boring Nerd’.

FORMAT DESCRIPTION:

These are the definitions that describe my working day and most of my television career in drama production.

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