Script-of-the-Week: Coach - Pilot

by Barry Kemp (51 pages)

Writing Awards: None that I could find.

Points of Interest:

• Pacing: Teaser sets a tone that is not necessarily funny, but with potential to be so.  First laugh seems to appear at the end of the monologue on 3 and then another laugh of page 7.  Presumably most of the humor is in Nelson’s gestures and expressions.

• Screen Visibility: Longer than usual description of locations.  Likely due to the fact that it’s the pilot episode.  Characters are describe by mannerisms rather than appearance.

• Formatting: Capitalized action and double-spaced lower-case dialogue.

• Dialogue: Long monologue on the first 3 pages.

• Action: Minimal action is described.

• Act Structure: Teaser. Act One, Scene A, B.  Act Two, Scene C, D, E.