Pitch Success Secret: Sell Film & TV by Crafting Your Second Hook

Here’s one of the best tips we have to help you pitch and sell projects to Hollywood. This secret will help you sell screenplays, scripted television, documentaries, novels, unscripted television and reality TV. What is the magical piece of advice? One Hook Is Not Enough. You Need Two. We never, ever go out with a pitch unless we can answer the question, “What is our second hook?” After you’ve read our free 10,000 word guide on pitching reality television, this tip will take your pitches to a new level. Today’s podcast ep breaks down what this advice means and how to use it. What we’ve got for you this episode: * Understanding second hooks * How the movie Armageddon, TV Shows Elementary and 24 and our own shows Don’t Trust Andrew Mayne and Caged all make use of second hooks * How recognizing a real-life second hook helped us sell a documentary * Joke’s first person account of seeing a major Hollywood film producer resurrect a project by adding a second hook * Why you should not pitch us a travel show unless you really grasp the second hook concept Press the giant PLAY button above to start using second hooks to sell your pitches today. Transcript coming soon! Come Make a Show With Us! Craft that sweet second hook and bring us some shows!

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*Named "New and Noteworthy" across all podcasts, as well as TV & Film, Arts, and Education. Subscribe now. Ready to create, pitch, and sell documentary series, unscripted TV shows or reality series and specials? From creating pitch tapes to meeting with TV networks, developing your ideas to discovering reality TV stars, this podcast features tips on working in unscripted film and television that you won't find anywhere else. Get top-industry secrets and even pitch your shows to Award-Winning Documentary Filmmakers and Unscripted Television Producers Joke Fincioen and Biagio Messina. Recently, the duo have helped both new and experienced producers bring projects to television on MTV, BIOGRAPHY CHANNEL, INVESTIGATION DISCOVERY, A&E, and CNN/HLN. Your show could be next. Subscribe now. ABOUT JOKE AND BIAGIO: With over a decade of experience in unscripted film and television, this married couple has made TV shows, specials, and pilots for CNN, HLN, A&E, The CW, Biography Channel, NBC, CBS, Discovery, Investigation Discovery, Discovery+, E!, IFC, Logo, Oxygen, Style Network, VH1 and MTV. Their feature length documentary DYING TO DO LETTERMAN played in theaters across America, was invited by the International Documentary Association to qualify for Academy Award® consideration, and named “New and Noteworthy” on iTunes alongside The Dark Knight Rises, Brave, and Beasts of the Southern Wild. Subscribers to this podcast will learn the secrets of the Unscripted TV and Film worlds, and how to apply them toward career success. Subscribe today.