How to bind a television script?

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When submitting a 22-23 page TV script, how should the pages be held together? Seems silly to use brads, obviously, so is a staple in the upper left hand corner all right?Thanks.-ml

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[nq:1]When submitting a 22-23 page TV script, how should the pages be held together? Seems silly to use brads, obviously, so is a staple in the upper left hand corner all right? Thanks. -ml[/nq]
I have no idea whether there is a standard on this, but submitting a TV script to a (I'm assuming) current show is not normally done. Have you contacted the producers and asked: !. Whether they accept submissions, and if the answer is yes, then 2. Asked for a bible?

Caroline

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I like to use duct tape.
I'm pretty sure brads are still used. My copy place does all kinds of industry related copies - and I'm sure I've seen TV scripts with brads.

- Bill

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[nq:1]When submitting a 22-23 page TV script, how should the pages be held together? Seems silly to use brads, obviously, so is a staple in the upper left hand corner all right? Thanks. -ml[/nq]
What sort of TV script runs 23 pages?
US broadcast uses 30 page scripts for single cam sitcoms, and 45 or so pages for multicam sitcoms.
Hour drama script run from 55 to 70 pages, about 60 is common.

Scripts for venues w/o adverts - HBO etc.- are likely to have longer page counts.
This only applies to the US market, the BBC has a different format for TV scripts and different binding conventions, but you can get the info on that from Scriptsmart at the BBC website.
If you're going by the page a minute rule, it doesn't apply precisely to US TV. A 23 minutes to the half hour sitcom like Scrubs has a 30 -
32 page script. A 45 minutes to the hour show like CSI Miami has a 60page script.
www.simplyscripts.com

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Thanks very much, Bill & Neal!

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