How To Map Out Your TV Seasons in Your Pitch Deck

Get a FREE Downloadable 5-Page Season Mapping Checklist, Arcs & Mythology Document & 2 Pitch Deck Examples!

When pitching a TV series to a collaborator or buyer perhaps the most important thing they are looking for is the sense that your series has sustainability, that it can stay engaging and carry an audience for several episodes or seasons. Without this, your series will not be profitable, and buyers will not be interested in pursuing it. In addition, if you don’t have a sense of where your show is going, it’s difficult to write a successful pilot script, since the pilot is supposed to launch your series, to point the way toward the journey you plan on taking with your characters.

So how do you map out your upcoming seasons in a pitch bible or deck? How do you condense the seasons into summary form so it’s easy to understand on the page? What plot points and character points do you have to hit? How much detail should you put down for season one – and how many seasons should you map out at all? What about “case-of-the-week” episodic series, or mini-series and limited series? And what if anything should you say in a verbal pitch?

Helping you navigate all these decisions is one of Stage 32's most popular educators, Anna Henry. Anna is a seasoned development executive who's clients have written for HBO, Amazon, Starz, NBC and more. She has also taught TV story structure for the Stage 32 + Netflix TV Content Creation Program. 

In this webinar Anna will help you tackle mapping out your TV seasons. She will talk about mapping out your series in broad strokes with key specifics. She will address what to reveal and what to leave out, and how to organize your story arcs. You will see a checklist (Anna’s trademark writing aid!) of what your season plan must contain in terms of storylines, characters and episodes. She will go deeper into how to show the sustainability of an episodic series through episode loglines. And she will discuss the differences in how to present limited series and mini-series.

At the end of this webinar you will walk away feeling confident in the way you lay out your television series seasons. 

PLUS! You will receive:

• A FREE downloadable 5-page season mapping checklist 
• Arcs and mythology document
• True Detective Pitch
• Constantine Pitch

Testimonials from Anna's previous Stage 32 Courses:

"This was by far the best webinar on pitch documents that I have experienced." - Tiffany C.

"So informative on the structure of a pitch. What's needed and how to go about dealing with the things that will come up during a verbal pitch or simply in the relationship between those giving a pitch and those receiving one. Well organized Anna, thank you!" - Julia L.

"I really appreciate Anna's teaching method and style. She is knowledgeable and thoughtful, and really cares about her students!" -- Matthew M.