FILM TV 133BIntermediate Television Writing One-Hour Drama/Half-Hour Dramedy Series
Film and Television · 6 or 8 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Examination of one-hour drama and dramedy formats, covering style, content, and structural analysis. Review of principles behind network needs and how pilots are chosen across broadcast, cable and digital platforms. Students write series outline and first draft of original pilot series. Open to works in progress and rewrites. Offered summer only.
Letter grading.
When it runs
Not on the schedule for any of Fall 2025 through Spring 2027. UCLA publishes only that window, so this does not mean the course is gone — check the official listing.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Recommended requisite: course 131.
BruinTree reads · Recommended
confidence 1.00 · from textRequires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
FILM TV 133B
- FILM TV 131Introduction to Television Writing
1 direct requisite. The whole upstream is here — 1 course over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.