How to pitch an unscripted concept
Preparing an unscripted pitch? These guides explain what to include on your pitch page, from loglines, decks, and sizzles to the details that help producers understand your reality series, docuseries, documentary, format, or podcast.
Start with the basics
Essential guidance for clarifying your concept, protecting your work, and understanding what makes a pitch ready.
Guides by concept type
How to pitch a reality TV show or docuseries
Learn how to develop, package, and pitch character-driven reality shows, docuseries, occu-follow concepts, lifestyle series, and access-driven unscripted ideas.
How to pitch a documentary
Learn how to shape a documentary feature, true crime project, limited series, or investigative story into a pitch producers can understand and evaluate.
How to pitch a reality TV format
Learn how to build and pitch the rules, stakes, structure, casting logic, and repeatable engine behind a competition, dating, game, challenge, transformation, or social experiment format.
How to pitch a podcast or audio-first concept
Showrilly is not a podcast hosting or distribution platform. Podcast submissions work best when they have a clear host, story, access, audience, sample, existing episodes, or potential to expand into television, documentary, or other unscripted formats.
How Showrilly works
A few fundamentals apply to almost every unscripted pitch: clarity, ownership, access, and knowing what kind of project you’re actually presenting.
Built to help you make the most of Showrilly.Showrilly’s articles, samples and guides provide general information about pitch materials and platform use. They are not individualized career counseling, legal advice, representation or a promise of producer interest or results.
Pitch Material Evaluations
Once your concept is in Showrilly, you can request an optional paid Pitch Material Evaluation. This written assessment considers how clearly your submitted materials communicate the concept. An experienced unscripted television professional may assess:
- Clarity of the premise, format and intended audience
- How clearly the characters, access and episode structure are presented
- Information that appears unclear, incomplete or internally inconsistent
- The overall organization and completeness of the submitted package
The evaluation is limited to the materials submitted. It does not include career counseling, coaching, training, representation, introductions, employment guidance or a promise of producer interest or results.
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