Hi Beau, I’m a writer here in San Fran. My new book just came out: www.indierock101.com. I’m entering some contests with some “Office” spec scripts of my own and I was curious how long your winning SP was. Mine seem to be coming in between 23-27 pages but I keep reading 45 pages is “standard” for 1/2 comedies. That just seems really long to me on paper. Does 23-27 pages sound about right to you? Thanks for any info and congrats on your win. - Rich
I think mine came in around 30 pages, but it doesn’t matter. As long as it feels like an episode of the show you’re spec’ing then you’ve done well. No reader for a contest is going to have a chart listing the average pages of each show. They’ll probably only look at your page count once; right before they read it just so they’ll know how much of their life they’re going to waste on it. They’ll probably be relieved to see that you’re only asking them to read 25 pages. Of course that’s just my guess, I could be entirely wrong.
The figure of “45 pages” probably refers to multi-camera sitcoms which are usually double-spaced and have all kinds of annoying crap in the scene heading (see How I Met Your Mother, Two and A Half Men, etc.).
Good luck!
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