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Logline: A Jane Austen-obsessed freshman navigates her new college world while trying to figure out how not to be in love with her best friend.

Logline: In 1930s Reno, divorce was a booming industry for people looking to run away from their mistakes. But, when one woman discovers her husband has already found a way to cheat her out of everything she owns, instead of running back to an old life she never truly loved, she decides to reinvent herself in a city that still honors its frontier roots and vices.

Logline: As the druids of ancient Britain prepare to crown a new ruler, they have a vision of the man who will one day be their king: a soldier in the approaching army, who happens to be the Centurion who killed Jesus Christ. Two wars are coming: the battle for power and the battle for Britain itself.

Logline: A young, idealistic general manager takes over a failing major league baseball club being run by an incompetent and ridiculous family.

Logline: After ten of the wealthiest people on the planet reveal they’ve created a drug that will grant immortality, the Government’s investigation into it not only reveals that the creation of this drug will destroy the earth, but that the newly anointed “ten” may no longer care.

Logline: After her husband’s death a newly widowed grandmother escapes her retirement community and moves with her best friend to New York to reclaim the wild years of her life she missed out on during her 50-year marriage.

Logline: With the promise of a technical revolution like none we’ve ever seen more than 200 video game fans are invited to take part if the largest virtual reality experience ever created. But, when the realities of the world are revealed, and the real world consequences start to take hold, the battle between what’s real and what’s not begin to blur.

Logline: After an injury forces a young figure skater from fulfilling her dreams of Olympic gold, and forces her to join the world of professional ice shows to pay her bills, she not only discovers how cutthroat the professional circuit can be, but that it may be the only place that can offer her another shot at going for gold.

Logline: After going out of her way to save an innocent bystander, a recently widowed and rebelliously immature mother of two finds herself struggling to balance her quest for a lazy lifestyle with that of this whole supernatural good versus evil secret society thing she got dragged into. Oh, did we also mention she may also be the only person who can save us from the apocalypse?

Logline: On her quest to become the Empress of China in the 19th century, we follow a young woman as she rises from the life of a poor village girl struggling to survive, to a concubine fighting to protect her family, to a wife struggling for respect, to a leader her country was not ready for.

Logline: A single mother fights to balance a complicated family life and a male-driven industry when she decides to team up with an engineer to secretly create a revolutionary new microchip processor in the 1970s.

Logline: In the 1960s, two elite female pilots become embroiled in a secret NASA program which seeks to determine whether women are capable of becoming astronauts.

Logline: Since 1902, a hyper clandestine intelligence agency known as the First Lady Initiative has worked in total secrecy protecting the nation. For over a century, the responsibility has been passed down from First Lady to First Lady… and now to Henry Jeffries, former President and now America’s “First Man.”

Logline: Rescued from a horrible fire as a puppy, a Golden Retriever who aspires to join the world-famous canine unit of his city’s fire department finally gets a chance to show his courage with the team when a building in his neighborhood catches fire.

Logline: A sullen, no-nonsense cop is forced to team up with bubbly rookie Elle (Cinderella), to solve crimes in a town made up of all the heroes, villains, and supporting characters of traditional fantasy tales. Their first case: the death and potential murder of hard drinking Sleeping Beauty.

Logline: When the CIA calls, you listen… even if it’s to leave your acclaimed job as a Broadway costume designer to help dress secret agents in the less-than-glamorous CIA costume department.

Logline: In the debaucherous vice district of turn-of-the-century Chicago, two sisters who operate one of the most famous and exclusive brothels in the world fight to empower their girls and keep their business alive in a city where corruption and power run rampant.

Logline: After a high-ranking member of the tribal council is found dead of an apparent suicide, a reservation detective investigates what she believes could be murder at the hands of the new oil company that is consuming the lands around them.

Logline: After being coerced into working for the CIA, a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist finds himself at the center of a dangerous conspiracy to destroy America from within.

Logline: When a man is given the chance to restart from the beginning with all of the knowledge of the life he left behind, he decides to chronicle his high school adventures as he attempts to right the wrongs of his past, often with hilarious results.

Logline: A woman who realizes her sociopathic ways are starting to get out of control moves to a one-person tourist trap town in an attempt to escape her deadly impulses. But, when the only other inhabitant of the town suddenly dies, and tour buses start rolling in she realizes she may have accidentally set herself up in the perfectly murderous setting she was trying to escape in the first place.

Logline: A man who sold his soul to the devil 150 years ago and became the broker for the devil is starting to have a crisis of faith, and now must talk those looking to make the same deal he did out of it in an attempt to win his own soul back.

Logline: A young soldier returning home from World War II to attend his murdered father’s funeral discovers that not only has his uncle usurped his father’s seat on the Senate, but that he may have played a part in the murder itself.

Logline: After inheriting an estate from a relative she never met, a Boston detective travels to New Orleans to discover why this house was left for her, who this relative was, and why the locals believe there is something supernatural at play.

Logline: After the disappearance of the Sun, what’s left of humanity survives due to a spaceship that provides light and heat to the Earth, which a small group of astronauts must protect at all costs.

Logline: Two American doctors, who’ve traveled to the Congo to investigate an unidentified and rapidly spreading outbreak, find themselves trapped in a war torn region where two teens may have discovered immortality… but at what cost.

Logline: A scientist researching the cure for a devastating plague discovers that his unborn child might hold the secret to a cure, but he must hide from the evil corporation profiting from the disease.

Logline: Four years after leaving her husband, one woman’s attempt to secure L’Oreal products for her burgeoning beauty salon ends up launching a cosmetic industry revolution in 1960s New York.

A comprehensive list of the 2016 Launch Pad Pilot Competition scripts showcasing your winners, runners-up, top 10 and semifinalists!
(All categories are listed alphabetically by pilot script title)

Logline: Thirteen children from the Greater Seattle area go missing on the same day, only to return two weeks later having aged over 10 years.