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The Scoggins Report: February 2013 Pitch Sales Roundup

The Scoggins Report by Jason Scoggins & Cindy Kaplan March 25, 2013   February 2013 Pitch Sales Roundup The see-saw continues:  One week buyers are more into spec scripts, the next it’s pitches, and then back to specs again.  At least, that’s been the pattern for the past month, and the result is our on-going [...]

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The Scoggins Report: March 2013 Spec Market Scorecard

The Scoggins Report by Jason Scoggins & Cindy Kaplan March 18, 2013 March 2013 Spec Market Scorecard It’s nice to be able to open with unqualified good news this week:  Last week’s flurry of spec script sales finally put the 2013 spec market on par with 2012’s, and total spec sales for the year are [...]

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The Scoggins Report: March 2013 Pitch Sales Scorecard

The Scoggins Report is published on ScriptMag.com with the permission of the authors. The Scoggins Report by Jason Scoggins & Cindy Kaplan March 11, 2013 March 2013 Pitch Sales Scorecard A month ago in the Pitch Scorecard we were surprised to find there had been more pitch sales than spec sales so far in 2013 [...]

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The Scoggins Report: February 2013 Spec Market Roundup

The Scoggins Report by Jason Scoggins & Cindy Kaplan March 5, 2013 February 2013 Spec Market Roundup Take even a glance at the below grid for February and you’ll notice something remarkable:  Just 15 specs scripts hit the market last month, a ridiculously low number this time of year.  (We’ve seen that few or fewer [...]

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The Scoggins Report: February 2013 Pitch Sales Roundup

The Scoggins Report by Jason Scoggins & Cindy Kaplan February 25, 2013 February 2013 Pitch Sales Roundup We’re a month into the Spring selling season and still experiencing an interesting pattern:  Pitches are selling as well or better than spec scripts, which is similar to the pace pitches set in 2011.  As you can see [...]

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The Scoggins Report: February 2013 Spec Market Scorecard

The Scoggins Report by Jason Scoggins & Cindy Kaplan February 18, 2013 February 2013 Spec Market Scorecard Longtime readers of the Scoggins Report know we accentuate the positive whenever we can.  That’s been easy over the last couple of years as the spec market got hot, but there’s no getting around the fact that this [...]

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The Scoggins Report: February 2013 Pitch Sales Scorecard

The Scoggins Report by Jason Scoggins & Cindy Kaplan February 11, 2013 February 2013 Pitch Sales Scorecard Here’s an interesting stat you don’t see very often:  There have been more pitch sales so far this year than spec sales (10 vs 9).  That’s more a result of a soft spec market than a robust pitch [...]

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The Scoggins Report: January 2013 Spec Market Roundup

The Scoggins Report by Jason Scoggins & Cindy Kaplan February 4, 2013    January 2013 Spec Market Roundup So far so good:  As you can see from the ever-expanding grid below (it’s hard to believe this is will be the Scoggins Report’s fifth year), the 2013 spec market is off to a very solid start.  [...]

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The Scoggins Report: January 2013 Pitch Sales Roundup

The Scoggins Report by Jason Scoggins & Cindy Kaplan January 28, 2013 January 2013 Pitch Sales Roundup This is one of our favorite weeks of the year:  The holidays are well behind us, we’ve recovered from Sundance and the Spring selling season is about to gain serious momentum.  The 2013 pitch and spec markets are [...]

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