I'm really liking the executive interviews at TV Writers Vault. Keep up the good work.

I'v gotten several reviews. Just don't know how much time passes between a review and a potential contact with a production company.

Hello Celestine -

Perhaps I can help you understand why we charge a nominal fee to use our marketplace for pitching your television projects and scripts. We are a business that involves marketing to the industry ($), programmers to develop and maintain the site and database($), administrative work involved in communications and handling all of the business related to the site($), along with a list of other investments of time and finance. Its like any other business.

In parallel to that, we take no financial participation for any project sold or produced. Agents will take ten percent off the top, and any other entity who is involved in connecting your project to a distributor will most likely take a gross cut as a producer. Its also important to know that the entertainment industry is a free market, and you can use any means to pitch your projects. Knowing that its an extremely difficult process to find contacts and companies to take unsolicited submissions, many people feel our service holds unique value.

Hi Bidhounds!
Its hard to say, but in general, if a producer is interested in the project they usually make the request immediately or within a few days. If they have it tagged "under consideration", then many do revisit the project. Its very subjective, and dependent on the executive's priorities and follow-through. Overall, they usually know what they like when they see it.
That's my best shot at explaining the unexplainable

Here's what I can tell you about how the projects are exposed to the executives. The best, and only way to keep balance of exposure, was for our programmers to have each executives viewing and actions exclusive to their use, meaning...for each individual executive who logs in to scout, once they click a title for review, it moves that title to their own project management area where they can reference old reviews, or projects they've tagged "under consideration" or "requesting contact". As they review titles, and those titles moving out of the way in the main genre listing, any project that hasn't been reviewed remains visible toward the top of the list, specific to that executive's activity. So, as you mention, a project may move down its own genre list as new projects are registered, BUT as executives review projects that are newer, that older project actually begins to move up the list. And believe me, there are a multitude of more project reviews (with all execs combined) than there are projects. With close to 250 executives scouting, any project title may have a great variety of actual positioning in their genre list, as a result of each specific executive's search activity.

You may have received action early in the running, but you have to know that its a subjective process, and if they don't like your title, they aren't going to feel compelled to review it. We've had writers sell projects that were in the database for longer than six months, just as we have those who sold a project that was posted for only an hour.

This is exactly how i feel too. I know that maybe my posting is easy to locate for the exec that has already reviewed the treatment... but what about the execs looking TODAY. My year date is coming up next month, and i'm trying to justify renewing it... but i got constant looks the first 3-4 months... then nothing. And i just can't help but wonder if that is because my treatment is SO buried by now that new people wouldn't ever see it. Because i'm sure the people scouting this site are not going to do HOURS worth of searching.... and not knowing where my project stands for them is upsetting.

I'm not sure yet whether or not i'm going to renew, i just wish there was a way to be sure that my posting MINIMUMLY every 2-3 months ended up much higher up in the food chain then potentially buried by all the new submissions.

I posted a project and within days I was informed that a producer was requesting writer contact. How long does it take before they contact you.

Around the 2nd of February 2010 i added my first Reality Series show to the "tv writers vault" on February 08, 2010 it had "status: Reviewed" By a Production company.

On February 13, 2010 i added a second Reality Show to the "tv writers vault"

on February 16, 2010 i had another "Status: Reviewed" by another Production company.

Just a few days ago i added a third show to the "tv writers vault" this time it's a Sitcom that should turn some heads, So will see what happens down this lonely road we all take.

Last but not least, i'd like to wish all the writers here on "TV Writers Vault" the best of luck in 2010.

Tandy Williamson

That's great you're getting some good activity, Tandy. Hope the right company connects.

i posted a project on February 15th and saw that a production company requested writer contact on the 19th. How long does it take before the production company contacts you?

thanks for looking into the matter.