FILM TV 283CRunning Television Comedy Room
Film and Television · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Practical knowledge about skills necessary to be writer/executive producer of half-hour comedy show. Focus on community building, collaboration, and leadership skills needed to successfully function in writers’ room, as well as breaking stories, writing, and rewriting television scripts.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Spring 2026
- Spring 2027
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Enforced requisite: course 283B.
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Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
FILM TV 283C
- FILM TV 283BWriting Half-Hour Comedy Pilot and Series Bible
- FILM TV 430Introduction to Film and Television Writing
1 direct requisite. The whole upstream is here — 2 courses over 2 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.
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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.