SPEC Script Formatting Primers

Even though the pandemic coincided with three fellowship seasons and we were closed from 2020-2022, the WGF library was able to provide remote assistance. We can’t send you scripts in their entirety. We aren’t the copyright holders and we don’t have the right to distribute them beyond the physical library. But for those people writing specs, we put together a series of blog posts that broke down the formatting of 125 TV shows from the WB Accepted Shows list and Nickelodeon list. Keep in mind, we don’t have EVERY show - this list was drawn from our library collection, which can be searched using our catalog. We hope these continue to be helpful in your writing process. We can be reached at library@wgfoundation.org if you have specific questions about a scene.

Below, you’ll find all of the shows we covered in 2020, 2021, and 2022 and the corresponding links.

Primer #1

Shows covered:

Big Mouth
The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
The Crown
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Mindhunter
PEN15
Shrill
Succession
Will & Grace
You

Primer #2

Shows covered:

Atlanta
Evil
The Good Doctor
Legacies
Superstore

Primer #3

Shows covered:

Bob's Burgers
Dead to Me
Power
The Rookie
Russian Doll
Younger

Primer #4

Shows covered:

Arrow
Better Things
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Homecoming
Insecure
Pose

Primer #5

Shows covered:

Mom
Ramy
Riverdale
The Twilight Zone
Westworld

Primer #6

Shows covered:

Barry
The Good Fight
One Day at a Time
Supergirl
This Is Us

Primer #7

Shows covered:

The Boys
Good Girls
The Good Place
Manifest
The Morning Show

Primer #8

Shows covered:

All-American
Bojack Horseman
Dear White People
Grown-ish
Ozark
Vida

Primer #9

Shows covered:

Family Guy
GLOW
Killing Eve
Law & Order: SVU
Madam Secretary
Stranger Things

Primer #10

Shows covered:

Grace and Frankie
Grey’s Anatomy
The Handmaid’s Tale
Legends of Tomorrow
Young Sheldon

Primer #11

Shows covered:

Awkwafina is Nora From Queens
Dickinson
The Great
On My Block
Stumptown

Primer #12

Shows covered:

Archer
Black Lightning
Mythic Quest: Raven’s Banquet
Never Have I Ever
Roswell, New Mexico

Primer #13

Shows covered:

Cobra Kai
Doom Patrol
Euphoria
Gentefied
Stargirl
Upload

Primer #14

Shows covered:

Batwoman
David Makes Man
Search Party
Undone
Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist

Primer #15

Shows covered:

American Housewife
Bosch
Locke & Key
The Righteous Gemstones
Snowfall
Woke

Primer #16

Shows covered:

Bridgerton
Chicago Fire
Nancy Drew
New Amsterdam
The Other Two
Space Force

Primer #17

Shows covered:

Atypical
The Baby-Sitter’s Club
Breeders
Claws
The Flight Attendant
The Goldbergs
Outlander
Peaky Blinders
The Unicorn

Primer #18

Shows covered:

Foundation
Hacks
Only Murders in the Building
Raising Dion
Rutherford Falls
Station 19

Primer #19

Shows covered:

Dave
Harley Quinn
Home Economics
Ted Lasso
Twenties
Wu-Tang: An American Saga

Primer #20

Shows covered:

Call Me Kat
Hightown
Physical
Reservation Dogs
Superman & Lois
The Wonder Years

Primer #21

Shows covered:

For All Mankind
Girls5eva
The Great North
Tacoma FD
Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan
Yellowjackets

Primer #22

Shows covered:

Abbott Elementary
Ghosts
Loot
Our Flag Means Death
This Fool
Welcome to Flatch

Primer #23

Shows covered:

The Bear
Harlem
The Last of Us
Shrinking
Single Drunk Female
We Are Lady Parts