Curated category
Primetime Emmy Award–winning television series
- Mad MenIn 2000, Matthew Weiner wrote the first draft of a pilot script for what would become Mad Men while working as a staff writer on Becker.
- Stranger ThingsIn early 2015, Dan Cohen brought a script to his colleague Shawn Levy at 21 Laps Entertainment. The Duffer Brothers had prepared a pitch book and a pilot…
- The Big Bang TheoryIn the opening scene of the pilot episode, a young woman named Penny moves into an apartment directly across from two physicists sharing a unit in Pasadena.
- FrasierOn the 16th of September 1993, a new television show began broadcasting on NBC that would eventually outlast its predecessor.
- Saturday Night LiveOn the 11th of October 1975, a young comedy troupe took the stage in Studio 8H for the first time. The show was called NBC's Saturday Night and hosted by…
- The MandalorianGeorge Lucas began developing a live-action Star Wars television series known as Underworld in early 2009. More than 50 scripts were written for the series…
- From the Earth to the Moon (miniseries)Ron Howard, Brian Grazer, and Tom Hanks formed a production partnership in 1995 to bring Andrew Chaikin's book A Man on the Moon to television.
- Breaking BadVince Gilligan stood in a writers room during the 2007, 2008 Writers Guild of America strike and realized his show needed to change.
- Game of ThronesGame of Thrones premiered on HBO on the 17th of April 2011, and when it ended on the 19th of May 2019, it had run for 73 episodes across eight seasons.
- The Book of Boba FettIn February 2013, Disney CEO Bob Iger announced the development of several Star Wars standalone spin-off films. One was reportedly centered on the bounty…
- The Beatles: Get BackPeter Jackson stood before a vault of film reels in 2019, holding the rights to footage shot during January 1969. He had visited Apple Corps to discuss a…