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Comps can quickly help ground your audience in the concept you're communicating

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Jun 13, 2025
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When pitching new TV shows, writers will draft a treatment. This is a document that captures the key details about the show, including the logline (explained in more detail here), synopsis and character descriptions.

Another common feature of treatment are comps - which are used to connect the new show being pitched to existing shows already known by the…

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