Davis Scott, a quirky southern photographer, and her band of off the wall thirty something friends struggle to survive unwanted dick pics, getting spat on during a date, and ridiculous pick up lines in order to find love in the jungles of Los Angeles.

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>This is a logline for a sitcom pilot.

Oh.

Nir Shelter is certainly right that you will have to produce a pilot script to sell the series and that script needs to introduce interesting and conflicted characters & relationships & set up a dramatic problem that promise plenty of ?interesting stories week in week out. ?Consider the logline for the highly acclaimed and highly rated series, "Breaking Bad":

When a milquetoast chemistry teacher is diagnosed with terminal cancer, he starts cooking crack to pay for his medical bills and provide for his wife after his death.

And that's just for the pilot episode. ?In 28 words it sets up a ?problem for the main character that promised plenty of complications and conflicts in ensuing episodes. ?And delivered for 62 episodes.

I think your logline has one essential ingredient that promises plenty of comedy-- the social milieu of contemporary L.A. ? But consider the real possibility that you are not the only writer developing a comedy series that promises plenty of comedy about 20/30-something women ?pursuing love in a modern urban social environment. Like L.A. ?What is there about your concept as evidenced in the logline ?for a pilot script that makes it stand out from all the rest?

>This is a logline for a sitcom pilot.

Oh.

Nir Shelter is certainly right that you will have to produce a pilot script to sell the series and that script needs to introduce interesting and conflicted characters & relationships & set up a dramatic problem that promise plenty of ?interesting stories week in week out. ?Consider the logline for the highly acclaimed and highly rated series, "Breaking Bad":

When a milquetoast chemistry teacher is diagnosed with terminal cancer, he starts cooking crack to pay for his medical bills and provide for his wife after his death.

And that's just for the pilot episode. ?In 28 words it sets up a ?problem for the main character that promised plenty of complications and conflicts in ensuing episodes. ?And delivered for 62 episodes.

I think your logline has one essential ingredient that promises plenty of comedy-- the social milieu of contemporary L.A. ? But consider the real possibility that you are not the only writer developing a comedy series that promises plenty of comedy about 20/30-something women ?pursuing love in a modern urban social environment. Like L.A. ?What is there about your concept as evidenced in the logline ?for a pilot script that makes it stand out from all the rest?

Loglines for TV will often describe the plot of the pilot.
It's the pilot that will sell the show, as it will indicate the type of characters and narratives in the show and how they will continue to generate stories week in week out. In addition pilot's will also demonstrate? the style and tone of the drama or comedy of a show.
Even so called "premise pilots" will do the same. A premise pilot is a pilot that sets up a premise which enables the rest of the show to play out of.

Point is you need to have great characters that exist in perpetual conflict with each other as well as a strong plot for a pilot, and your logline needs to describe all of that.

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