How To Develop, Package, Pitch and Sell Your Limited Series To A Streamer or Network

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Learn from the 2-Time Emmy Award Nominated Executive Producer of the Emmy Award Winning Series GENIUS

PLEASE NOTE: Although this exclusive Stage 32 class is no longer live and the teacher is not available on email, we highly encourage you to do any assignments to get the most out of the educational experience.

If you have your own idea for a limited series, there’s no better time than now to get it in front of executives and decision-makers looking for this engaging television.

Over the last several years, the limited series has become one of the most exciting, competitive, and acclaimed formats in the entertainment industry. Limited series like Hulu’s DOPESICK, Paramount+’s THE OFFER, Hulu's PAM & TOMMY, Netflix’s THE QUEEN’S GAMBIT, Amazon’s UNDERGROUND RAILROAD, and HBO’s CHERNOBYL have become global phenomena and greatly boosted the careers of the creatives behind them. It’s no surprise that buyers and big names on all sides of the camera are hungry for binge-worthy event programming like these limited series and are looking for the next hit to make.

So how do you know if you have a winning idea? How do you develop your material and package it together to attract a buyer? What steps can you take that can increase the probability of a sale or production order? 

Two-time Emmy-nominated producer Sam Sokolow will show you all of this and more.

Sam is best known for his work in developing and producing the Emmy-winning limited series GENIUS for NatGeo/Disney+, one of the first prestige limited series to find a wide audience. Over his career, Sam has executive produced 18 original TV series and set up dozens of television and film projects at major studios and distributors in Hollywood and is well-versed at finding success developing, pitching, and selling his projects.

Exclusively for Stage 32 in this in-depth 4-session on-demand class, Sam will teach you how to develop, pitch, and sell limited series to a streamer or network by first learning how to identify source material, packaging talent into your project, and identifying the buyers. He’ll review the pilot script for GENIUS: EINSTEIN to highlight what makes a world-class limited series pilot work. He’ll also show you how to build the pitch, approach the buyers, and even share what the deals look like.

PLUS! Sam will show you:

• The GENIUS pilot script
• A pitch deck he used for a limited series he worked on, so you can see how he put all the pieces together to ultimately pitch and sell the project.

You don’t want to miss out on this class!