Script Resubmission
Resubmit an updated version of your entry from the 2025 BlueCat TV Writing Competition!
- All resubmissions receive a new written analysis.
- Your original submission and your resubmission will each be treated as separate, stand-alone entries.
- You can select a previous reader, a new reader, or no preference. If your previous reader is no longer available, you can request a new reader or a refund.
- Please read the rules and guidelines before resubmitting your script.
RESUBMISSION FEES
- HOUR PILOT — $50
- HALF-HOUR PILOT — $40
RESUBMISSION DEADLINE
- June 3rd, 2025 at midnight PST.
Questions? Contact us at info@tvwritingcompetition.com.
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2025 Rules & Guidelines
All submissions must adhere to the BlueCat TV Writing Competition Rules & Guidelines.
Awards
- There will be two winners: Hour Pilot and Half-Hour Pilot.
- Both winners will receive $2000 each.
- All cash prizes will be disbursed 30 days after the winners are announced.
- Every script submission will receive a complimentary written analysis.
Submission Deadlines
- Opening Deadline : January 7th (Hour $50, Half $40)
- Early Deadline: February 4th (Hour $50, Half $40)
- Regular: March 4th (Hour $60, Half $50)
- Final: April 22nd (Hour $70, Half $60)
- Late: May 13th (Hour $80, Half $70)
- Resubmission: June 3rd
Competition Results Schedule
- Quarter-Finalists: June 24th
- Semi-Finalists: July 1st
- Finalists: July 8th
- Winners: July 15th
Screenplay Analysis Distribution Schedule
- All analysis provided to the entrants is complimentary.
- All submissions submitted by February 4th, 2025 will receive their written analysis by February 18th, 2025.
- All submissions submitted by March 4th, 2025 will receive their written analysis by March 18th, 2025.
- All submissions submitted by April 22nd, 2025 will receive their written analysis by May 6th, 2025.
- All submissions submitted by May 13th, 2025 will receive their written analysis by May 27th, 2025.
- All resubmissions submitted by June 3rd, 2025 will receive their written analysis by June 17th, 2025.
Eligibility
- All submissions must be original, and the sole property of the applicant(s).
- All ages are eligible.
- Must be in English.
- Hour Pilot scripts must be between 45-100 pages.
- Half Hour Pilot scripts must be between 1-45 pages.
- There is no limit to the number of entries you may submit.
- You may submit a script once. You may not submit the same script more than once.
- All script entries must be uploaded in PDF format.
- Under absolutely no circumstances will substitutions of either corrected pages or new drafts of the entry script(s) be made. Scripts will not be returned.
- Competition judges, readers and employees of the BlueCat, past and present, and their immediate friends and families are not eligible to enter.
- Previous winners of the BlueCat are not eligible.
- Scripts, including outlines, treatments, pitches, log lines or any developmental material related to the script, that has previously won any contest, competition, grant, lab, fellowship, mentorship, reading or award of any kind, are not eligible.
- Past and present scripts consulted on through Gordy Hoffman’s consultation service or the BlueCat workshops are not eligible.
- Past USC and UCLA students of Gordy Hoffman are not eligible.
Resubmissions
Your script is eligible for resubmission. Resubmission allows you to revise your script and resubmit it to BlueCat.
- Each entry is considered a stand-alone submission. Your resubmitted script will not replace your original entry.
- Resubmissions will receive script analysis.
- Entrants can select a previous reader, a new reader or no preference. If your previous reader is no longer available, you can request a new reader or a refund.
- Each script may be resubmitted twice.
- Script titles cannot be changed upon resubmission. The author(s) must meet all eligibility requirements.
- Resubmissions will open after the first analyses are sent—-all entrants will be notified.