Professional Programme
Screenwriting for Series
Most screenwriting courses teach the three-act film. Series work is a different animal: a room, a season, and a producer asking what happens in episode four when the money runs out.
- Duration
- 10 months · part-time
- Mode
- Evenings, Valletta or online
- Intake
- October
- Fee
- €4,200 total
What you will be able to do
- Break a season and write a bible that survives a pitch
- Write to a budget you know
- Take notes without losing the story
- Work in a room without disappearing in it
- Deliver a production-ready draft
Modules
| Block 1 | Structure Episode engines, arcs, the pilot as a promise. |
| Block 1 | Character Want, need, contradiction, and the scene that proves it. |
| Block 2 | The room Breaking story collectively, pitching, defending, conceding. |
| Block 2 | Production reality Budgets, locations, cast size, schedule. |
| Block 3 | Draft A full pilot and bible, workshopped with a professional showrunner. |
Aldermere awards a certificate of completion for this programme. It is not a degree and carries no accreditation from a national higher-education authority.