What is a TV Spec Script?
spec script
/spek * skript/
noun
A sample episode script based on an existing TV show. These used to be the way shows got staffed. Rumor is they've gone out of fashion with most writers' room staffers preferring to read original pilot episodes. You'd have to be an idiot to write spec scripts these days and you'd have to be a real hopeless head case to write spec scripts of TV shows that haven't existed for decades. And if you hastily wrote each one over a few days then posted them online for the world to see... well I don't know what you'd call that.
/spek * skript/
noun
A sample episode script based on an existing TV show. These used to be the way shows got staffed. Rumor is they've gone out of fashion with most writers' room staffers preferring to read original pilot episodes. You'd have to be an idiot to write spec scripts these days and you'd have to be a real hopeless head case to write spec scripts of TV shows that haven't existed for decades. And if you hastily wrote each one over a few days then posted them online for the world to see... well I don't know what you'd call that.
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