The Scoggins Report by Jason Scoggins & Cindy Kaplan May 13, 2013 May 2013 Pitch Market Scorecard As our tifosi know, there’s nothing we like better than digging around in the data to find hidden patterns. We found a good one for you this week — glance at the Overall Pitch Numbers grid, below. 2013’s lagging a [...]
The Scoggins Report by Jason Scoggins & Cindy Kaplan May 6, 2013 April 2013 Spec Market Roundup We don’t want to jinx anything, but we sure picked an auspicious time to move the Scoggins Report into its new home on SpecScout.com. April 2013’s 14 spec sales is the highest monthly total in nearly a year, [...]
The Scoggins Report by Jason Scoggins & Cindy Kaplan April 29, 2013 April 2013 Pitch Market Roundup We’re back to quasi-normal: After a four-month volley, the past week has seen total spec sales pull significantly ahead of total pitch sales for the first time this year. And the good news is that it’s not [...]
I’m late night gorging on trash TV instead of reading a script, watching a movie or even catching up on sleep. Hulu is apparently determined to keep me awake, no matter how repetitive the commercials. Because just below the video is written, “What are you thinking?” Haunting. Those very same words have been running through [...]
The Scoggins Report by Jason Scoggins & Cindy Kaplan April 22, 2013 April 2013 Spec Market Scorecard Consistency may be the hobgoblin of little minds, but it sure makes it easier to analyze the spec market. We took a week off from the Scoggins Report in mid-April in both 2012 and 2103, and year-over-year numbers [...]
The Scoggins Report by Jason Scoggins & Cindy Kaplan April 15, 2013 April 2013 Pitch Market Scorecard Unlike the situation in the spec market, the number of pitch purchases by the studios is basically on par with 2012 and 2011, thanks in large part to strong numbers in February. What’s different this year is thedistribution: Fox is way [...]
The Scoggins Report by Jason Scoggins & Cindy Kaplan April 2, 2013 March 2013 Spec Market Roundup We stayed up late last night messing around with the numbers for the first quarter of 2013, and we’re now even more convinced than we were last month: Something totally bizarre is going on in the spec script market. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
