The secret of "do not accept "Unsolicited" material

We see this every where , you want to send your finished great script but what do you see?
Do not accept unsolicited material.

If you type it in google you still dont get the answer, you get close like this

A. Each label has their own definition and policies for "unsolicited" material. "Unsolicited" material means either: 1. materials the record label hasn't invited you to send, or 2. materials submitted by representatives the label has not had business associations with.

I'll tell you the real secret, It means you need to hire an entertainment lawyer to pass material on. Think it's that easy? think again not easy to find an entertainment lawyer that will send packages on behalf of them.

And every day that goes on, its harder and harder to find a lawyer that will do such thing.

So thats the secret to sending unsolicited material. Finding an "entertainment lawyer" that will.
Can't be just any lawyer must be an entertainment lawyer by definition.

Another good will hunting ben example.

Not true, sadly
We don't have entertainment lawyers in this country - we have agents.
And you don't actually need an agent - you need a contact.
Independent producers are a good place to start.
And unsolicited soon becomes 'solicited' with the right approach.
Make contact (politely), include brief description and ask if it's possible to send stuff over.
If the idea's good and you don't come across as a nutter & you catch them on the right day - they'll probably give you the benefit of the doubt.
This is the problem with 99% of online advice being aimed at wannabe US screenwriters - it bears no relevance to the situation in the UK.

Quote: Lazzard @ 6th October 2017, 12:27 PM

Not true, sadly
We don't have entertainment lawyers in this country - we have agents.
And you don't actually need an agent - you need a contact.
Independent producers are a good place to start.
And unsolicited soon becomes 'solicited' with the right approach.
Make contact (politely), include brief description and ask if it's possible to send stuff over.
If the idea's good and you don't come across as a nutter & you catch them on the right day - they'll probably give you the benefit of the doubt.
This is the problem with 99% of online advice being aimed at wannabe US screenwriters - it bears no relevance to the situation in the UK.

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Well send your stuff to la you know you and chappers are both grumps. Its sound advice anyone would know you aim for new york or la ,

Your a grump and chappers a grump both grumps dont listen to them take my advice or sit in there pool and do nothing. Yer your both the nothing the never ending story of putting downness nothing.
Dreams dont happen that way u get what you project in life and negitivity u both thrive on the nothing

Comedywriter Dude, feel free to follow your own advice.
I'm just offering up an alternative.
Most writers on this site are looking to break into the UK TV comedy market.
For them your advice is 100% wrong and disastrously misleading.
And as someone with a little experience in this area, I feel duty bound to correct it.
Being a writer in the UK is hard enough as it is, without dubious advice like this.
I re-iterate - the advice you are giving is a somewhat garbled version of what it takes to break into the USmarket, if you are based in the US.
It's different over here.

Well i'm sorr it is very hard for you in uk, I tell you one thing if i was in UK i would be contacting that jimmy guy. Very very good he is

Which Jimmy guy?

Quote: comedywriter dude @ 8th October 2017, 5:43 AM

Well i'm sorr it is very hard for you in uk, I tell you one thing if i was in UK i would be contacting that jimmy guy. Very very good he is

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If you were in the U.K., I'd be punching you up the bracket Mush.

Would this be the same Jimmy guy that every time you go out, he comes in?