How To Write a TV Season

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[KeithAShieldToy]

My suggestion to writers is to make each episode do the 3 act structure but end the episode with new daunting information for our protagonists that you have no idea how they’re going to solve next episode. Then you make them solve it and create an even bigger problem (and maybe this is defeated iver the span of 2 episodes), etc. basically end every episode in a cliffhanger

[TheAlexDouglas]

Your channel give me hope, thank you so much for keeping uploading Tyler.

[penpanda]

I literally was just about to search this up and now you posted it

[amillar]

This was great. Would love to see an example. I got lost in the hypothetical fractals.

[elliottsbrickfilms]

I'm trying to make a stop motion series with a decent compelling story and I was already thinking 8 episodes and sort what you were explaining. I'm not a writer by any means so it's good to see that someone who knows what they're talking about is saying what I was thinking. I'm trying to scale this project very low and probably finish it in 2024 with like 8 3-5 minute episodes. see how it goes as I let myself be creative. Very reassured that I'm doing this right. Obviously I'm doing this as a hobby and not as a production but I think professional film advice is still good for stuff like this.

[bu]

you should do a video on worldbuilding

[BIGBOREDHEAD]

As I watch this, I’m reading his script from the 48 hour video 😅

[NIKONGUY]

I asked this once before. My show involves 4 adults so each episode's 'A' story will feature a different adult. There are also 6 children so I have a lot of square footage to deal with. How does one approach this?

[quinoah_]

Hi there. Sorry, I'm confused -- should a season end with Return and Change? Or, should after the big climactic moment happens and things slow down, do we get a repeat of Search, Find, Take?

[KeithAShieldToy]

I’m writing a Xena-esque campy fantasy drama with a female knight and her secret weapon (a stone golem in the shape of a dummy she controls) and her harem of noblewomen 😅 as she collects their allegiance and rallies an army to destroy her father. She gets enemies on the way that want to capture her stone golem… it’s a powerful magical weapon

[BIGBOREDHEAD]

Tyler, do you think it is ok for a TV episode to be 2 hours? I tried writing it and I personally thought it was decent writing but it was 122 pages (2 hours 2 minutes)

[scottlee]

I hate TV Series.

Good explanation though!