The Main Difference Between TV and Movie Scripts

Again, it boils down to character

Nihan Kucukural
The Writing Cooperative
6 min readSep 20, 2021

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Better Call Saul (Image: Sony Pictures Television)

I wrote TV shows with my screenwriting group for fifteen years. We also planned and plotted a few movie scripts over the years but never actually wrote them. For two reasons: First of all, we almost always had a highly demanding TV project that paid the bills. Writing a TV show was financially more rewarding since it meant…

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Turkish copywriter and screenwriter based in New Zealand. I am addicted to stories. I write screenwriting/copywriting advice and occasional funny stuff.