The 2016 Launch Pad Pilots Competition: Announcing The Top 50!

With over 156 writers signed, 51 projects set up and 21 writers staffed since we began our competition, we’re thrilled to introduce you to the next batch of contenders for this year’s Pilots Competition.

This year’s Top 50 make up the Top 3% of all those entered, and are comprised of a wonderfully diverse group of stories and writers, with 32 dramas and 18 comedies making the cut, from 29 female writers and 24 male writers including 3 female writing teams and 3 female/male writing teams. The Top 50 scripts hail from 3 countries – the US, Canada, and Scotland – with 9 period pieces and 41 projects set in either contemporary times or in grounded, futuristic worlds.

For a better idea at just how diverse the pilots were this year, we can tell you they included stories of love, loss, luck, space exploration, supernatural detectives, high school woes, super-fans, and those who were super-fanned over, competitive ice-skating, the devastation of present day America, the early days of music magazines, new spins on Shakespearean classics, politics, ageism, sexism, elitism, origin stories, triad stories, espionage, witness protection, insider trading, euthanasia, centurians, Dracula, and the fight for humanity to survive…

And so, we give you the 2016 Launch Pad’s Top 50 Pilot Scripts! (All scripts are listed alphabetically by title.)