January — September 2016 Spec Market Scorecard

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Landon and I tend to endorse the idea that “no news is good news,” but it’s sadly not applicable in this case: The slow start to the…

January — March 2016 Spec Market Scorecard

Damn, Hollywood. This isn’t exactly how we’d hoped to reboot the Scoggins Report.

In a perfect world there’d be a couple dozen or so spec sales to discuss by this point in the Spring Selling Season, not to mention a handful of…

2015 Year-End Spec Market Scorecard

Finally: The 2015 Year-End Spec Market Scorecard is complete. (All together now: “Thanks, Landon!”)

We’ve got Q1 2016 spec market numbers coming along shortly (again, thanks to Landon, who’s taking over writing the entire Report from now…

2014 Year-End Spec Market Scorecard

The interesting thing about 2014 spec market was that the studio buyers stepped up to buy 1/3 more spec scripts than they had in 2013, but non-studio buyers stayed away in droves, resulting in low overall sales numbers compared to the previous three years.

2014 Primetime Network Pilot Season Scorecard

Year three of our annual pilot season one-shot, assembled by the crack team of Cindy and Landon. The analysis was particularly insightful (if I say so myself), thanks to having three years of numbers to play with; if I had to choose, I’d say this is…

2013 Year-End Pitch Market Scorecard

Remember when Mike Esola was at WME and used to dominate the spec and pitch sales scorecard every year? And was at the top of the pitch sales tally for the third year in a row in 2013?

2013 Primetime Network Pilot Season Scorecard

Full credit goes to Cindy Kaplan for pitching and doing all the legwork to pull the Pilot Season Scorecard editions of The Scoggins Report together. This was the 2nd year we compiled it, and as we made clear in the intro, comparing year-over-year…

2011 Year-End Spec Market Scorecard

This was a fun one to compile. 2011’s total spec sales (132) more than doubled the nadir of 2010 (62), thanks to Warner Bros.’ buying spree and healthy sales to several non-studio buyers. Warner Bros. hasn’t been the same buyer since (though they tied for 1st in…

2013 Year-End Spec Market Scorecard

2013 was the last time we saw triple digit spec sales numbers. Sigh.

Nice to see the byline on this one, btw. Cindy + Landon + Jason = The Dream Team.

2009 Year-End Spec Market Scorecard

It makes me cringe to look at it now, but this is the year-end spec market scorecard from 2009, the year The Scoggins Report got started. God it’s ugly; let the mocking commence. At least the data was interesting.