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This site will be of plenty of interest to TV fans, but fundamentally it's for people who want to take their love of TV and transform it into something more practical: actually creating telly that people want to see.

These scripts are here because the only way to learn how to write a TV script is to read A LOT of other TV scripts, and there aren't many places you can do that.

So here you can study scripts for existing shows, some of your old favourites, and many that never even made it to air. Figure out what makes an episode work, how to format that spec, why a pilot failed and how to write in four, five or six acts.

And when you've figured it all out and got your show on air - send me your scripts!

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23 April 2019

Bad Couple 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Cassius And Clay 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Chad 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Charity Case 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Chunk And Bean 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Crazy House 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
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Dream Team 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
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I Shudder 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
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Me & Mean Margaret 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
My Time, Your Time 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Overanalyzers 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
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Pick Me Up 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Pussies 1x01 - Cyranos and Amaros (READ NOW)
Pussies 1x01 - Soul Mates and Gay Dates (READ NOW)
Randall & Hilda Are Not A Couple 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Sebastian Says 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Life Of Crime 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Square Roots 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
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The Jury 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
The Wilding 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Transylvania 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
True Fiction 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Untitled Megachurch Project 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Urban Cowboy 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
When the Street Lights Go On 1x01 - Cicadas (READ NOW)
Zoobiquity 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)

22 April 2019

Bless This Mess 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Ramy 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
The Code 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Sex, Lies and Handwriting 1x01 - Baptism (READ NOW)
Broken 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Shrink 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)

7 April 2019

Abbys 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
All American 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Champaign ILL 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Hanna 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Hanna 1x02 (READ NOW)
Happy Together 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
In The Dark 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Liza On Demand 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
On My Block 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Pretty Little Liars - The Perfectionists 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Project Blue Book - Series Pitch Doc (READ NOW)
Sorry for Your Loss 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Sideswiped 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Sydney to the Max 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
The Act 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
The Enemy Within 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
The First 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
The Fix 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
The Village 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Warrior 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Whiskey Cavalier 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)

16 February 2019

Fast Layne 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Doom Patrol 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Proven Innocent 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
The Umbrella Academy 1x01 - We Only See Each Other at Weddings and Funerals (READ NOW)

15 February 2019

Miracle Workers 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Pen15 1x01 - First Day (READ NOW)
Weird City 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)

3 February 2019

Escape at Dannemora 1x01 - Chapter One (READ NOW)
I Am the Night 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Russian Doll 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
The Other Two 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Tropical Cop Tales 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Black Monday 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Legend of Korra 2x07 - Beginnings Part 1 Outline (READ NOW)
Legend of Korra 2x07 - Beginnings Part 1 Premise (READ NOW)
Legend of Korra 2x07 - Beginnings Part 1 (READ NOW)

19 January 2019

Fam 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Nightflyers 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
No Activity 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Origin 1x01 - The Road Not Taken (READ NOW)
Project Blue Book 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Queen America 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Roswell New Mexico 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Schooled 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
The Good Cop 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
The Passage 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Wayne 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
All Night 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)

11 November 2018

The Rookie 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Homecoming 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Smallville 4x22 - Commencement (READ NOW)
Smallville 5x20 - Fade (READ NOW)
Tell Me A Story 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
The Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina 1x01 - October Country (READ NOW)
The Kids are Alright 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Charmed 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)

14 October 2018

The Neighborhood 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
I Feel Bad 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Rel 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Single Parents 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
The Cool Kids 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
A Million Little Things 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
New Amsterdam 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
FBI 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
God Friended Me 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Kidding 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Magnum PI 1x01 - I Saw the Sun Rise (READ NOW)
Maniac 1x01 - Reality Test (READ NOW)
Manifest 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Paradise PD 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
The Haunting of Hill House 1x01 - Steven Sees A Ghost (READ NOW)
The Purge 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
You 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
American Woman 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
The Good Doctor 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
The Sacred Lies 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Step Up 1x01 - Pilot.pdf (READ NOW)
Take Two 1x01 - Pilot.pdf (READ NOW)

04 September 2018

American Crime Story - The Assassination of Gianni Versace 2x04 - House by the Lake (READ NOW)
Black Mirror 4x01 - USS Callister (READ NOW)
Insatiable 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Jack Ryan 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Lodge 49 1x01 - As Above, So Below (READ NOW)
$1 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
The Handmaid's Tale 2x01 - June (READ NOW)
Stranger Things 2x09 - The Gate (READ NOW)
The Americans 6x10 - START (READ NOW)
Atlanta 2x01 - Alligator Man (READ NOW)
Atlanta 2x05 - Barbershop (READ NOW)
A Very English Scandal Ep.1 (READ NOW)
A Very English Scandal Ep.2 (READ NOW)
A Very English Scandal Ep.3 (READ NOW)
American Vandal 1x08 - Clean Up (READ NOW)
Godless 1x01 - An Incident at Creede (READ NOW)
Godless 1x02 - The Ladies of La Belle (READ NOW)
Godless 1x03 - Wisdom of the Horse (READ NOW)
Godless 1x04 - Fathers & Sons (READ NOW)
Godless 1x05 - Shot the Head off a Snake (READ NOW)
Godless 1x06-07 (READ NOW)
Patrick Melrose 1x01 - Bad News (READ NOW)
Patrick Melrose 1x02 - Never Mind (READ NOW)
Patrick Melrose 1x03 - Some Hope (READ NOW)
Patrick Melrose 1x04 - Mothers Milk (READ NOW)
Patrick Melrose 1x05 - At Last (READ NOW)
The Crown 2x10 - Mystery Man (READ NOW)

14 July 2018

Billy Ray 1x01 - How's This Gonna Work? (READ NOW)
Blackbirds 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Golden State 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Really 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Alexa And Katie 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Alone Together 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
American Vandal 1x01 - The Crime (READ NOW)
Bordertown 1x02 - Drug Lord (READ NOW)
Bordertown Bible (READ NOW)
Casual 1x02 - Friends (READ NOW)
Channel Zero Staircases 2x01 - Insidious Onset (READ NOW)
Dietland 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Harlots 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Heathers 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Hit the Road 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Impulse 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
In Contempt 1x01 - Welcome to Hell (READ NOW)
In Contempt 1x02 - Combat by Agreement (READ NOW)
Killing Eve 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Love is 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Patrick Melrose 1x01 - Bad News (READ NOW)
Philip K Dick's Electric Dreams 1x07 - The Father Thing (READ NOW)
Picnic at Hanging Rock 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Picnic at Hanging Rock 1x02 (READ NOW)
Pose 1x01 - A House is Not a Home (READ NOW)
Reverie 1x01 - Apertus (READ NOW)
Ryan Hansen Solves Crimes On Television 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Ryan Hansen Solves Crimes On Television 1x02 - Jane Doh (READ NOW)
Safe 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Strange Angel 1x01 - Augers of Spring (READ NOW)
Sweetbitter 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Tarantula 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
The Alienist 1x02 (READ NOW)
The Crossing 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
The Dangerous Book for Boys 1x01 - How to Walk on the Moon (READ NOW)
The Dangerous Book for Boys 1x02 - How to Play Poker (READ NOW)
The Last O.G 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
The Legend of Master Legend 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Vida 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Yellowstone 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Yellowstone 1x02 - Kill the Messenger (READ NOW)
Youth And Consequences 1x01 - The Hanging Chadwick 1 (READ NOW)
Youth And Consequences 1x02 - The Hanging Chadwick 2 (READ NOW)

8 July 2018

Another Period 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Moonbeam City 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Sin City Saints 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Things You Shouldn't Say Past Midnight 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Benders 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Lady Dynamite 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Stuck In The Middle 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Zoe Ever After 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Disjointed 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
GLOW 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Jean-Claude Van Johnson 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Santa Clarita Diet 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
The Tick 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Time Travelling Bong 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Ascension 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Damien 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Dark Matter 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Matador 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Stitchers 1x01 - A Stitch in Time (READ NOW)
Stonemouth 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Stonemouth 1x02 (READ NOW)
Tatau 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Tatau 1x02 (READ NOW)
The Lizzie Borden Chronicles 1x01 (READ NOW)
The Lizzie Borden Chronicles 1x02 (READ NOW)
The Lizzie Borden Chronicles 1x03 (READ NOW)
The Crown 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
The Man in the High Castle 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
The Returned 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Tut 1x01 - Choice (READ NOW)
Tut 1x02 - Destiny (READ NOW)
Tut 1x03 - Loyalty (READ NOW)
Tut 1x04 - Hemmorhage (READ NOW)
War and Peace 1x01 (READ NOW)
And Then There Were None 1x01 (READ NOW)
And Then There Were None 1x02 (READ NOW)
And Then There Were None 1x03 (READ NOW)
Blood Drive 1x01 - The Fucking Cop (READ NOW)
Frontier 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Good Behaviour 1x01 - One (READ NOW)
Greenleaf 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Patient Zero 1x01 - With A Whimper, With A Bang (READ NOW)
The Last Tycoon 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Feed the Beast 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Condor 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Fleabag 1x01 (READ NOW)
Genius 1x01 - Johnnie and Dollie (READ NOW)
Guerrilla 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Manhunt - Unabomber 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Seven Seconds 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
The Long Road Home 1x01 - The Road to Way (READ NOW)
Travelers 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)

31 March 2018

Alex Inc 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Instinct 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Krypton 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Siren 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Splitting Up Together 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Supernatural 9x23 - Do You Believe in Miracles (READ NOW)
The Terror 1x01 - Go For Broke (READ NOW)

24 March 2018

48 Hours Til Monday 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Brainy 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Chevy 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Cuckoo 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Delores & Jermaine 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Detour 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Family Fortune 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Fantasy Life 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Happy Life 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
How We Live 1x01 - Mating Rituals (READ NOW)
Ken Jeong Made Me Do It 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Knoxville 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Not Safe for Work 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Pariah 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Problem Child 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Quality Time 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Shaq-Inc 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Sharing 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Strange Calls 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Super Clyde 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Take It From Us 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
The 46 Percenters 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
The Diva, The Doc and the Jock 1x01 - When in Rome (READ NOW)
The Half Of It 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
The King Of 7B 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
The Pursuit 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Tough Cookie 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Untitled Dana Klein Project 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Untitled Monica Potter Project 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Untitled O'Shannon & Warren Project 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Untitled Slate & Graynor Project 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Untitled Tommy Johnagin Project 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Breed 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Cheerleader Death Squad 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Clan Of The Cave Bear 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Cocaine Cowboys 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Dead People 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
For Justice 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
LFE 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Love Is A Four Letter Word 1x01 - True Love is a Beast (READ NOW)
Lumen 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Luther 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Manhunt 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Mix 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Paradise Pictures 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Patient Zero 1x01 - With a Whimper, With a Bang (READ NOW)
Runner 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Self Promotion 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Stanistan 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Stay 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Studio City 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Tales From The Dark Side 1x01 - A Window Opens & The Sleepwalker (READ NOW)
The Adversaries 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
The Advocate 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
The Broad Squad 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
The Curse Of The Fuentes Women 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
The Kingmakers 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
The One Percent 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Unveiled 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Warrior 1x01 - Humility (READ NOW)
Warriors 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
White City 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)

18 March 2018

Altered Carbon 1x01 - Out of the Past [Missing pp48 and 50] (READ NOW)
The Marvelous Mrs Maisel 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Sherlock 3x01 - The Empty Hearse (READ NOW)
Sherlock 2x02 - The Hounds of Baskerville (READ NOW)
Living Biblically 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
The Looming Tower 1x01 - Now it Begins (READ NOW)
Heathers 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Life Sentence 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Rise 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Deception (2018) 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Unsolved 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
AP Bio 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
For the People 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Good Girls 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Everything Sucks 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
SG-1 Season Three Writers Bible (READ NOW)
An Adventure in Space and Time (READ NOW)
The Corner Bible (READ NOW)
Grey's Anatomy - Bible (READ NOW)
Doctor Who 5x03 - Victory of the Daleks (READ NOW)
Doctor Who 6x09 - Night Terrors (READ NOW)
Doctor Who 7x08 - Cold War (READ NOW)
Doctor Who 7x11 - The Crimson Horror (READ NOW)
Doctor Who 8x01 - Deep Breath (READ NOW)
Doctor Who 8x02 - Into The Dalek (READ NOW)
Doctor Who 8x03 - Robots Of Sherwood (READ NOW)
Doctor Who 8x04 - Listen (READ NOW)
Doctor Who 8x05 - Time Heist (READ NOW)
Doctor Who 9x01 - The Magician's Apprentice (READ NOW)
Doctor Who 9x02 - The Witch's Familiar (READ NOW)
Doctor Who 9x10 - Face the Raven (READ NOW)
Doctor Who 9x11 - Heaven Sent (READ NOW)
Doctor Who 9x12 - Hell Bent (READ NOW)
Doctor Who 10x01 - The Pilot (READ NOW)
Doctor Who 10x03 - Thin Ice (READ NOW)
Doctor Who 10x05 - Oxygen (READ NOW)
Ashes to Ashes 1x01 Outline (READ NOW)
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Ashes to Ashes 3x07 (READ NOW)
Ashes to Ashes 3x08 (READ NOW)
Life on Mars 1x01 (READ NOW)
Life on Mars 1x04 (READ NOW)
Life on Mars 2x08 (READ NOW)
Inside No.9 3x02 - The BIll (Post-Production) (READ NOW)
Inside No.9 4x01 - Zanzibar (READ NOW)

29 January 2018

Black Lightning 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Black Mirror 3x04 - San Junipero (READ NOW)
Dark Matter 1x02 - Episode 2 (READ NOW)
Dark Matter 2x12 - Sometimes in Life You Don't Get to Choose (READ NOW)
Dark Matter 3x09 - Isn't That a Paradox (READ NOW)
LA to Vegas 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Master of None 2x08 - Thanksgiving (READ NOW)
McMafia 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Orange is the New Black 2x05 - Low Self Esteem City (READ NOW)
Scandal 2x02 - The Other Woman (READ NOW)
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Scandal 2x10 - One for the Dog (READ NOW)
Sherlock 2x01 - A Scandal in Belgravia (READ NOW)
Enterprise - Bible (READ NOW)
Enterprise 3x24 - Zero Hour (READ NOW)
The Alienist 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
The Crown 1x09 - Assassins (READ NOW)
The Resident 1x01 - Pilot (READ NOW)
Waco 1x01 - The Strangers Across the Street (READ NOW)

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By Pamela K. Johnson

When Franklin Leonard watches the Oscars, there are usually several films he’s had a small role in bringing to the big screen. This year it was Arrival, Jackie, Manchester by the Sea, and Hell or High Water, which were made from screenplays that first appeared on The Black List, created by Leonard in 2005.

Nominated for a combined 21 Oscars, list films won three: Casey Affleck took Best Actor for Manchester By the Sea, which also scored Best Original Screenplay. And Arrival took home the trophy for Best Sound Editing.

The Black List is described as “a closed network of script buyers, script representatives, and script writers that makes everything easier for everyone involved,” according to its website.

“I pull for the home team a bit,” Leonard said of Arrival, which lost to Moonlight in the Best Adapted Screenplay category. “But those two are among the best films I’ve seen in years, and not winning the Oscar doesn’t make [Arrival] any less of a great film. I share in joy of people who win.”

Of the approximately 1000 screenplays on the list over the last dozen years, nearly a third have been produced, including Oscar Best Picture winners Argo, The King's Speech, Slumdog Millionaire, and Spotlight. Films from The Black List have grossed more than $26 billion.

“I’m exceptionally happy for the people involved in the films, but I didn’t shoot them, gaff them, or cater them,” Leonard demurs. A Harvard grad, he’d pursued his interest in film after being laid off as an analyst for McKinsey & Company.

Working for Leonardo DiCaprio, Will Smith’s Overbrook and Universal Pictures, he would read upwards of 700 unproduced screenplays a year, hoping for a winner. More often than not he was disappointed. In 2005 he began reaching out to colleagues, asking which scripts they’d read that year and loved, putting the information into a spreadsheet, and sharing it with them.

They kept it a secret, “but it was in the Hollywood water supply, and people discussed it,” says Leonard. “It kind of went viral in the industry before there was Twitter or Snapchat.” And then the L.A. Times found out about it and published a story.

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Initially, his reaction was fear: “I assumed there were unwritten rules about the way Hollywood functions.” He worried he’d be ousted, and have to fill out those law-school applications he’d been avoiding. Instead, the town celebrated him.

At times, thought, he finds the attention a bit overwhelming. New gujarati movie.

“I’ve always chosen jobs that were quite literally the person behind the person, behind the person, behind the person,” he says.

And yet The Black List has given him an opportunity to embrace a role that he’d wanted all along: to advocate for underrepresented groups to be treated equally and have a voice. He called the project The Black List to associate the color black with something positive, and with a nod to screenwriters of the 40s and 50s whose careers crashed and burned after the House Un-American Activities Committee accused them of being Communists.

Leonard, business partner, Dino Simone, and a staff of four seek to be wayfinders for scripts that might otherwise be overlooked. The team prods Hollywood to reexamine notions of what makes a film a success, and to get more women and people of color in the industry pipeline.

Selma, The Butler and Nightingale, three produced films with predominantly African-American casts, first appeared on The Black List. And while Leonard can’t say whether the first two would have been made without an assist from his company, he knows the HBO film, Nightingale, starring David Oyelowo, relied upon it “because the filmmaker told me as much.”

The Black List continues to evolve.

“This is my sole job,” Leonard says. “I’m building partnerships and working with studios. Through Warner Brothers we offer…deals to writers from historically underrepresented communities every six months,” he says.

His team also hosts script readings, dinners, a podcast, and a blog, while crunching data to arrive at script rankings.

And then there’s Oscar night. Of course Leonard gets excited when an award goes to a film from the list.

“When you have a connection to anything that wins, it’s emotional. I would have been excited if the Atlanta Falcons won the Super Bowl,” he says, “because I grew up in south Georgia.”

His final thought is about the power of the audience: “Vote with your pocket book,” he says. “If you want to see more movies of a certain type, see more movies of that type—at a theater, on line, or on dvd. Tell your friends to go see them. Hollywood is driven by the same capitalist instincts of any business, so lift up the work that you love.”

Pamela K. Johnson is a Los Angeles-based writer who is fascinated by 1940's Black Hollywood, and is at work on a couple of screenplays, a novel, and a blog on the subject. Follow her @pamelasez.

In this post, let's take a look at how we can generate SQL Server scripts of our database with existing data.

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In this post we will discuss how we can generate SQL Server scripts of our database with existing data, once we generate the script, the result will give you an insert query with other queries so that the data also will get inserted in your new database. We are going to use the option ‘Schema and data’ in SQL server for this task. I hope the screenshots given will help you generate the script with insert queries.

Background

I was working on an article that has so many database transactions/actions. So I thought of attaching the database scripts with data in the source code download section of the article, so that it may help the user to insert the data in his/her database. That made me write this article. I hope you will like this.

Steps to Generate Database Scripts With Data In SQL Server

Step 1

Right-click on your database and select Task -> generate script.

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Step 2

Click next in the introduction screen.

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Step 3

Select the database object which you are all you need and then click next.

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Step 4

Now you will be shown a window which asks you about how your script should be published.