2016 NYTVF Scripts Competition Accepting Original Sitcom Scripts Are you an aspiring TV writer? Want to get your work in front of agents, managers, and development execs across the TV and digital landscape? Submit to NYTVF Scripts for a chance to have your project named an Official Selection of the 2016 New York Television Festival, become eligible for awards and development deals from NYTVF partners, and engage with the largest collection of television decision-makers anywhere on the Festi...

Are you an aspiring TV writer? Want to get your work in front of agents, managers, and development execs across the TV and digital landscape? Submit to NYTVF Scripts for a chance to have your project named an Official Selection of the 2016 New York Television Festival, become eligible for awards and development deals from NYTVF partners,  and engage with the largest collection of television decision-makers anywhere on the Festival circuit. In its inaugural year, NYTVF Scripts is accepting ...

The NYTVF and Just for Laughs invite you – the comics, writers, creators, and producers on the cutting edge of comedy – to present your show ideas in an open-pitch forum at the Just for Laughs ComedyPRO Conference in Montreal on July 29, 2016. Concepts can be scripted or unscripted. Finalists in From Set to Screen: The TV Comedy Search will be selected to pitch their ideas LIVE at the ComedyPRO conference, the winner of which will be invited to participat...

Get onboard with the show that TIME MAGAZINE called last season's “secret weapon” during this NYTVF Opening Night Special Event featuring a debut of an episode from the second season of WGN America’s MANHATTAN, produced by Lionsgate Television, Skydance Television and Tribune Studios. Screening followed by a talkback featuring cast members John Benjamin Hickey, Rachel Brosnahan, Ashley Zukerman, Michael Chernus, Katja Herbers and...

For the first time, Lifetime is partnering with the NYTVF in search of emerging TV writers with bold, brand-defining scripted concepts. To submit, writers must enter an original series overview (up to four pages) along with an excerpt from the series' pilot script (up to fifteen pages) and a current C.V.   Lifetime Creative Brief: As partner of the 2015 New York Television Festival, Lifetime, the premier female-focused entertainment destination dedicated to offering the highest quali...

By Maria Esteves - September 15, 2008 The 4th Annual 2008 New York Television Festival (NYTVF) Opening Night ABC Television Network premiere screening of LIFE ON MARS, directed by Jason Connery was held at the New World Stages, Friday, September 12, 8:00 PM. A special Q&A with cast members preceded the 2008 NYTVF Opening Night Gala Reception. LIFE ON MARS ABC new science fiction series depicts a current day New York City detective Sam Tyler (Jason O'Mara) goes back in time to the year 197...

  By Maria Esteves - September 17, 2007 The Third Annual New York Television Festival (NYTVF) 2007, was held at New World Stages theater, September 5-9, 2007. NYTVF annually presents independent television pilot competition, television network (ABC, FOX, NBC) premieres, panel discussions, seminars, special events, parties, and awards ceremony. Artists, industry executives, producers, actors, and musicians attend the festival. 2007 NYTVF ABC Television Network premiere screening PUSHING ...