How to Get a Green Light for Your TV Show

Welcome to Trade Secrets, TheWrap’s insider guide to making it in Hollywood. For our inaugural story, we’re tackling one of the trickiest challenges in the entertainment business: How to get a television pitch greenlit. We spoke to executives from the industry’s top networks and streamers to bring you the answers.

It’s getting harder to secure a green light for a scripted TV show these days as Hollywood contraction takes distributors from the marketplace. Those left standing are trimming...