Willow ,'Conversations with Dead People'
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls and The Inside), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
Do you have to write spec scripts for scripted shows, seeing as how the script itself isn't generally intended to be shot?
Generally speaking, yes. (Though there are some people now who only want to read pilots or features and don't care about specs for existing shows.) Specs are writing samples designed to demonstrate that a) you know how to tell a story and b) you can mimic someone else's voice.
I think Drive will probably be difficult to spec, in the same way that Lost, 24 and Desperate Housewives are difficult to spec.
Prequel.
I´d also take something character based, with humor and of course lots of drama. But since I hardly know anything about Drive it would be hard to do that. There are not many dramas out there which one could take, but I then I hardly know everything on US TV. Hm, maybe a Battlestar Galactica with a out of character plotline, since they aren´t exactly much jokes in show, I think? Honestly I have no idea. As for Lost, 24, DH I think you are right. For 24, for example, I can only think of starting a new day for a spec, which would be, lets face it, lame.
So just saw "Gem"
If you would like to heart me, you know the drill.
I'd just spec Knight Rider. Just for fun. Getting KIT's voice right, though, that could be tricky.
As long as it doesn´t have David Hasselhoff I´m all for it. You could replace him with ... how about a beagle? Cause beagles are always good aren´t they?
Awwwww, a beagle poking at KIT's buttons with its wee nose and pawing the steering wheel. I'd watch.
A beagle with a "wee nose"? Mine are all proboscides.
It's fiction. You can do that.
I've never been able to tell with the local beagles because they're always yapping too fast to see what their noses look like.