Inside the Room: Writing Television with the Pros at UCLA Extension Writers’ Program

What does it take to go from being a TV fan to a professional TV writer?

For the first time outside of the UCLA Extension Writers’ program classrooms, writers, whose many produced credits include The Simpsons, Mad Men, Frasier, The X-Files, Star Trek- The Next Generation, CSI- Miami, Law & Order, and House M.D., take aspiring writers through the process of crafting their first spec script for an on-air series, creating drama and comedy pilots that break out from the pack, and revising their scripts from ‘pretty good’ to ‘Great.’

Readers also learn how to launch and sustain a writing career and are offered a rare look inside the process of creating, selling, and getting a TV show made.

Edited by Linda Venis, the longtime director of the Writers’ program, Inside the Room is an unmatched resource for everything readers need to write their way into the Writers Guild of America.
‘Inside the Room should be required reading for anyone embarking on or dreaming of a career in television.

Like the classes I took at UCLA Extension when I was starting out, it demystifies the process of becoming a working television writer and tells you how to go about it.

Most of all, it lets you know it’s possible.’

Carol Barbee, writer/producer, Touch, Hawaii Five-O, Jericho, and Judging Amy
‘Aspiring television writers have found their bible in Inside the Room.

It is an honest, insightful, and incredibly accurate depiction of how the modern television system works.

No book can guarantee success, but this one will get you as close as any can!’

Lee Hollin, director, drama development, CBS Television Studios