Your show already has a season in it.Let’s write the pilot that sells it.
Tell IdeaM your show in a sentence. It asks the questions a showrunner answers first, then breaks the pilot the way a writers’ room does — the series, the characters and their arcs, the A, B and C stories, the act breaks — writes every act in TV script format, and hands you the series bible too.
Every TV writer knows this moment.
You can see the show. You know the lead, the world, the kind of trouble that walks in every week. You can already picture episode six.
Then you sit down to write the pilot, and everything has to happen at once: introduce the world, set up the season, land a story that stands on its own, and end every act on a moment strong enough to hold an audience through the break. And when someone likes it, the next question is always the same — where is the bible?
IdeaM gets you from that blank teaser page to a full pilot and a series bible you can read, rework and send — so your energy goes into what makes the show yours.
From one idea to every act, step by step.
Open Build, choose TV Pilot, and answer a few questions. Only the show is required — leave the rest blank and IdeaM fills it in. Your answers steer everything that follows.
It asks you first
- What’s the show? The series in a sentence or two
- The show’s name, if you have one
- The kind of show — drama, comedy, crime, thriller, medical, legal, science fiction or family
- How it should feel, where and when it takes place, and who it is about
- Shows it should feel like, as touchstones
- Whose name and contact go on the title page
- The format — one-hour drama, half-hour comedy or multi-camera sitcom
Then it builds, in order
- 1The series
A title with alternates, the logline, the series overview, the tone and touchstones, and the series engine — what brings a new story through the door every week.
- 2Characters and season arcs
What each one wants and needs, the flaw or secret in the way, how they talk, and where each one is by the end of season one. Anyone you named stays as you described them.
- 3The world and season one
The standing sets every episode returns to, the rules of the world, the arc of the first season and six episode ideas that could follow the pilot.
- 4The pilot’s story
The A, B and C stories of the episode, and what the pilot must leave the audience wanting next week.
- 5Act breaks
Every act and the moment it ends on — a cliffhanger in a drama, a reversal or a big laugh in a comedy — then a scene-by-scene outline, one act at a time.
- 6The acts, written
Each act written as finished scenes in screenplay form, picking up exactly where the last one ended, with everything planned so far in view so the characters stay themselves from the teaser to the tag.
How a pilot gets built
The whole TV Pilot workflow on one page — the questions, the writers’ room steps, the three formats and what you take away — with lines from a real pilot.
Word for word from the sample bible
Unedited, from the series bible written alongside the pilot.
Each episode operates as a focused investigation—a specific piece of local misconduct, a cold case reopened, or a character reveal that implicates a different segment of the Blue Hollow power structure.
The investigation leads Ava to the County Records Annex, where she uncovers discrepancies in property ownership dating back forty years that directly implicate a current high-ranking town figure.
Read the real thing
Written by IdeaM from a one-line idea — unedited first draft.
Your whole show, in one outline you control.
The pilot lands as an ordinary branch of your outline — the series and the bible material on top, the writers’ room beneath it, and the script under Pilot Script, one item per scene. It is saved as it is written, so a long run can pause and pick up again.
- Drag a scene to another act and the script follows.
- Zoom into one act and hide everything else while you rewrite it.
- Rewrite a scene yourself, or ask the AI to rework it in plain English — and see every AI change before it lands.
- Change a character’s season arc in the bible, then rework the scenes that set it up.
- Blue Hollow
- Series Logline and Overview
- Characterswith season arcs
- The World
- Season Onearc and future episodes
- One-Hour Drama
- Pilot StoryA, B and C stories
- Act Breaks
- Scene-by-Scene Outline
- Pilot Script
- Teaser
- EXT. BLUE HOLLOW PRECINCT PARKING LOT - DAYone scene
- Act One
- …
A pilot in TV format, and the bible to go with it.
When the acts are written, one press makes the three things a TV writer sends out, and opens them for you.
Pilot script PDF
Industry TV format: a title page with the show, “Pilot”, Written by and your contact; every act on a new page under its header — teaser or cold open, ACT ONE through the tag — opening with FADE IN: and closing with END OF ACT ONE. Multi-camera pilots get sitcom form: underlined scene headings, action in capitals, double-spaced dialogue.
Series bible PDF
The document buyers ask for next: the logline, the series overview and tone, the main characters and their season arcs, the world, the pilot, season one and future episodes.
Fountain file
The plain-text screenplay format that screenwriting apps such as Final Draft, Highland, Fade In, WriterSolo and Slugline can open — act headers included.
Three formats — your call.
A teaser and five acts, about 55 to 65 pages, each act ending on a cliffhanger.
Single-camera: a cold open, three acts and a tag, about 30 to 35 pages, each act ending on a turn or a laugh.
A cold open, two acts and a tag, laid out in the double-spaced form multi-camera shows use.
Written by the free AI on your own computer, or in Hybrid with your own Google AI key: Google plans the series and polishes the dialogue while your computer drafts every scene. Before you start, IdeaM tells you about how many Google requests the run needs.
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2.
EXT. BLUE HOLLOW PRECINCT PARKING LOT - DAY
BEN CARTER (50s), leans against the far edge of the yellow tape, arms crossed over a damp flannel shirt. He watches Ava kneel again, now focusing on the same spot.
BEN CARTER
(a slow drawl)
You look for the dust, do you?
AVA VANCE
You know this place. You know the dirt.
He flicks the cigarette butt away; it sizzles briefly on the wet asphalt.
BEN CARTER
Nothing the way the locals say. When the dust settles on old wounds, you don’t find evidence, Prosecutor. You find the memory of the ache.
Everything around the writing, too.
A pilot is the tip of a lot of thinking. IdeaM holds all of it.
Research in your Second Brain
Save articles, interviews, videos and notes about your world, then ask your own material questions and get answers from it.
Capture on your phone
An episode idea on the train, a line for the tag in the shower — Quick Capture saves it in seconds, even offline, straight from your Home Screen.
Outlining built for story
Move scenes between acts, zoom into one act, tag storylines and characters, and see the shape of the whole episode — and the season — at once.
Rewrite in your voice
Rework any scene with a plain-English instruction, and teach Your Voice how you write so the drafts start sounding like you.
You have the final say
Every AI change is shown to you first, and nothing lands until you approve it. Snapshots and unlimited undo keep every version safe.
Dictate anywhere
Talk a scene through out loud and watch the words land on the page, wherever you can type.
A complete first draft — and the real writing begins.
What you get is every act on the page, in TV format, with the structure already working for you and a bible that holds the season together. The voice of the show, the joke that becomes a runner, the act-out that makes someone lean forward — that is yours to shape, and IdeaM makes the shaping fast.
Bring the show you have been carrying.
Give it a sentence. Get back a first-draft pilot and a series bible to read, rework and make your own.