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  • "The Secret to Selling Sci-Fi" by Jane Espenson

    8 August 2007, by Webmaster
    It’s difficult to sell a show with hard sci-fi or fantasy elements. It doesn’t matter that the biggest summer movies (Spider-Man 3, Shrek the Third, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End, Transformers, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix) and book (Harry Potter again) are sci-fi or fantasy, or even that "Heroes" was the highest-rated new show on TV. Try pitching a purely sci-fi/fantasy show with a spaceship or an elf and see how it goes over. Put an elf on your spaceship and you (...)

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