Showranner roadmap. How to make a series successful

TV shows have long become more popular than full -length cinema! But to create a truly high -quality series, which is not a single season as, for example, "Walking Dead" is still a task!
Neil Landau talked with the most successful Hollywood showrans and recognized their methods and professional secrets. The 29 best producers and screenwriters tell how their favorite series of the whole world were born.

- How does the producer and screenwriter of the series" Doctor House work?
- Where did the characters “How did I meet your mother” come from?
- Why are the Shonda Ryims TV shows so popular? ("Anatomy of passion", "scandal").
- How Vince Gilligan came up with "all heavy".
- Where does the scriptwriter and producer "Dexter begins the plot?

Nile Landau - an American producer, screenwriter, playwright, director and consultant. Among his films and television works are the youthful comedy "Do not tell mom that the nanny died", "Melrouz Player", "Great Seven", "Dougers Houser, Doctor of Medicine", "Secret World of Alex Maca" and "Parted from MTV" and Cartoons "Finnik".

"Nile"s book must be read by any person who is seriously related to the art of writing scripts for television. The author’s analysis of fundamental truths is very clear, accurate and interesting. But this book is made by a tet-a-a-a-test interview with showranins, experiencing a career flowering: the reader seems to observe through a hidden camera behind the best specialists in this field. ” - Channing Dunga, executive vice president of dramatic series of the American television network ABC Entertainment Group