2024 TV PILOT CONTEST WINNERS

WE ARE HONORED TO ANNOUNCE THE WINNERS AND FINALISTS OF OUR 2024 TV PILOT CONTEST

It has been a pleasure to immerse ourselves in these fantastic stories and proudly share them with our award-winning industry Judges.

And now the Judges have spoken!

We want to congratulate all the writers who have graciously shared their work with us this year. With so many great stories from talented writers, we are in no doubt that a large number of this year’s entrants will go on to have successful careers in the industry.

For full details of what happens next, check out our post-contest timeline.

Learn more about our TV Pilot alumni and how we can help move your career forward by checking out the TV Pilot Success Stories.

 WINNERS – TV PILOT 1 HR | TV PILOT 1/2 HR

TOP 10 FINALISTS – TV PILOT 1 HR | TV PILOT 1/2 HR 

SEMI-FINALISTS – TV PILOT 1 HR | TV PILOT 1/2 HR

QUARTER-FINALISTS – TV PILOT 1 HR | TV PILOT 1/2 HR

SIGN UP TO OUR MAILING LIST FOR ALL THE UPDATES.

Don’t miss a deadline. Download our Contest Calendar.

COUNTERFEIT

When a respected art conservator is asked to identify a mysterious painting, she risks exposing her criminal past as a master art forger.

COSA NOSTRA

In 1903 New Orleans, the bond between three Sicilian-American sisters will be tested when one of them joins the city’s mafia underworld.

TV 1-HOUR FINALISTS
(10 Finalists – alphabetical order)

	Alex Blumberg	Back Fires	A crew of California prison inmates move to an isolated mountain camp to fight wildfires in exchange for their freedom – only to face hostile opposition from furious locals and within their own ranks.
	Ali Wilkie	DRUNK PROPHETS	About wayward tarot card readers fighting crime in Brighton, UK – unaware that their boss is a criminal. Episode one: When a rookie tarot reader sees a death in the cards and is wrongly arrested for murder, she sets out to catch the real killer – and ends up saving his life.
	Arden Earnest	COSA NOSTRA	In 1903 New Orleans, the bond between three Sicilian-American sisters will be tested when one of them joins the city’s mafia underworld.
	Cam Smith	Black Death	Harlem, 1923. After defeating the Germans abroad, a Black war hero searching for identity, must contend with the new enemies at home — Jim Crow and the Irish Mob. (Inspired by true events)
	Emily Renee	Counterfeit	When a respected art conservator is asked to identify a mysterious painting, she risks exposing her criminal past as a master art forger.
	Frances Flannery	Lionheart	Haunted by her father’s suicide, a physicist travels back through time in an attempt to unravel the Cold War mystery that led to his death.
	J.D. Elliby	The Kingmaker	A young African-American baseball scout puts his life on the line when he fights to sign an undiscovered pitching phenom who’s trapped in the drug game.
	Kyle Vorbach	The Beginning of the End	After a whistleblower leaks dangerous and unbelievable claims that Earth is five years from obliteration, his small hometown must decide what to do with the time they have left, while the world slowly descends into chaos.
	Marine Mondelot	Code Breaker	A genius but maladjusted hacker infiltrates a cutting edge AI programme run by the British Intelligence Services to foil a terrorist plot and protect his wife.
	Siôn Eirug	HIRAETH	On Earth’s Evacuation Day, a mother and son are cruelly ripped apart from their family and left behind in a now terrifying lawless world. Their only hope of ever being reunited balances on a perilous journey to the last departing Ark, forcing them to re-connect with their past, and the planet they’re about to abandon forever.

SOUTHBANK

When an ex-girlfriend dies, thirty-something Ethan Evans finds he has been made her social media legacy contact and is asked by her grieving family to sort through and delete her remaining online presence, only to find, as he moves through her digital archives, that there was much he didn’t understand about the woman he had always considered a six month fling.

BUMP

A bereaved husband and his late wife’s estranged sister embark on a tumultuous surrogacy journey, grappling with their mutual animosity and shared sorrow, as they attempt to honour the deceased’s last wish for a family.

TV ½ HOUR FINALISTS
(10 Finalists – alphabetical order)

	Ben S Hyland & Kate McCoid	Bump	A bereaved husband and his late wife’s estranged sister embark on a tumultuous surrogacy journey, grappling with their mutual animosity and shared sorrow, as they attempt to honour the deceased’s last wish for a family.
	Chris Watt	Southbank	When an ex-girlfriend dies, thirty-something Ethan Evans finds he has been made her social media legacy contact and is asked by her grieving family to sort through and delete her remaining online presence, only to find, as he moves through her digital archives, that there was much he didn’t understand about the woman he had always considered a six month fling.
	Clement Vallos	Disabled Love	Lilou (a 20-year-old woman with Down syndrome) wants to be independent and date “normal” guys. Unfortunately, her parents send her to a residence for people with mental disabilities. Bored and hopeless, she meets Billie (a 50-year-old autistic woman), who will become her coach in sexuality, independence, and feminism. Together, they will try to find their place in a society that has never really given them one.
	Disha Manocha	Route 87	Neil runs a hole-in-the-wall Indian restaurant in a small town near the US-Canada border. Nursing loneliness and a recent loss, his life is turned upside town when he takes on Vik, a charming but dubious new employee. New friendships –and old secrets– are all on the table.
	Katie Wells	Wonder Inc.	After a messy breakup and a minor breakdown, a woman finds herself in a place no twenty-nine year old wants to be: starting over.
	Lena Reibstein	No Worries If Not!	Dawn’s ex-girlfriend Leah mysteriously disappears 24 hours after leaving Dawn’s emotionally vulnerable text on read. After Dawn receives an ominous message about Leah’s location, she starts to believe there’s more to the story than just her getting ghosted—at least she hopes so. “Fleabag” meets “Search Party”.
	Madison Ramirez	JEFA	A half hour, single-cam dark comedy following recent college graduate and professional pushover, Naomi Garcia, whose barely starting life must come to a halt, as the news of her grandmother’s terminal illness forces her to return to her small hometown in California to live with her God-worshipping and Bud Light obsessed grandmother.
	Miguel Rivera	ChuBBBs, Inc., “Enter the Cub”	After his sister is arrested for dealing crystal meth, C.J., a gay bear-chub baker in North Hollywood, California, joins forces with his fellow gay, bear-chub friends, Marty and Dana, and his cantankerous Republican uncle Reggie to help raise his rambunctious nephew, Rocco.
	Morgan English & Topher Harless	Talk	A jaded comedienne makes an unconventional comeback to television after a publicized suicide attempt.
	Sammy Sultan & Alan Niku	Ten Percent Off	As the best mohel in Los Angeles, thirty-year-old Shraga Fallas is a generational talent when it comes to circumcising Jewish boys. But when he elects to pursue a career change, he finds old habits and hefty paychecks keep him in the dick-cutting business.

OUR 2024 TV PILOT 1 HOUR SEMI-FINALISTS

(in alphabetical order by writer’s first name)

OUR 2024 TV PILOT ½ HOUR SEMI-FINALISTS

(in alphabetical order by writer’s first name)

OUR 2024 TV PILOT 1 HOUR QUARTER-FINALISTS

(in alphabetical order by writer’s first name)

OUR 2024 TV PILOT ½ HOUR QUARTER-FINALISTS

(in alphabetical order by writer’s first name)