Logline Examples to TV Shows and Series
Use the TV series logline examples to pitch television industry executives to be optioned (or developed) into a television series.
- The Walking Dead | 44 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller: Sheriff Deputy Rick Grimes wakes up from a coma to learn the world is in ruins and must lead a group of survivors to stay alive.
- Mr. Robot | 49 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller: Elliot, a brilliant but highly unstable young cyber-security engineer and vigilante hacker, becomes a key figure in a complex game of global dominance when he and his shadowy allies try to take down the corrupt corporation he works for.
- Homeland | 55 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery: A bipolar CIA operative becomes convinced a prisoner of war has been turned by al-Qaeda and is planning to carry out a terrorist attack on American soil.
- The Sopranos | 55 min | Crime, Drama: New Jersey mob boss Tony Soprano deals with personal and professional issues in his home and business life that affect his mental state, leading him to seek professional psychiatric counseling.
- Breaking Bad | 49 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller: A chemistry teacher diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer turns to manufacturing and selling methamphetamine with a former student in order to secure his family's future.
- Sex and the City | 30 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance: Four female New Yorkers gossip about their sex lives (or lack thereof) and find new ways to deal with being a woman in the late 1990s.
- Dexter | 53 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery: He's smart. He's lovable. He's Dexter Morgan, America's favorite serial killer, who spends his days solving crimes and nights committing them. Golden Globe winner Michael C. Hall stars in the hit SHOWTIME Original Series.
- Fargo | 53 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller: Various chronicles of deception, intrigue and murder in and around frozen Minnesota. Yet all of these tales mysteriously lead back one way or another to Fargo, North Dakota.
- Six Feet Under | 60 min | Comedy, Drama: A chronicle of the lives of a dysfunctional family who run an independent funeral home in Los Angeles.
- The Big Bang Theory | 22 min | Comedy, Romance: A woman who moves into an apartment across the hall from two brilliant but socially awkward physicists shows them how little they know about life outside of the laboratory.
- Succession | 60 min | Drama: The Roy family is known for controlling the biggest media and entertainment company in the world. However, their world changes when their father steps down from the company.
- Arrested Development | 22 min | Comedy: Level-headed son Michael Bluth takes over family affairs after his father is imprisoned. But the rest of his spoiled, dysfunctional family are making his job unbearable.
- Lost | 44 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy: The survivors of a plane crash are forced to work together in order to survive on a seemingly deserted tropical island.
- Modern Family | 22 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance: Three different but related families face trials and tribulations in their own uniquely comedic ways.
- Seinfeld | 22 min | Comedy: The continuing misadventures of neurotic New York City stand-up comedian Jerry Seinfeld and his equally neurotic New York City friends.
- Downton Abbey | 58 min | Drama, Romance: A chronicle of the lives of the British aristocratic Crawley family and their servants in the early twentieth century.
- Cheers | 22 min | Comedy, Drama: The regulars of the Boston bar "Cheers" share their experiences and lives with each other while drinking or working at the bar where everybody knows your name.
- Twin Peaks | 47 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery: An idiosyncratic FBI agent investigates the murder of a young woman in the even more idiosyncratic town of Twin Peaks?
- The X Files | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery: Two F.B.I. Agents, Fox Mulder the believer and Dana Scully the skeptic, investigate the strange and unexplained, while hidden forces work to impede their efforts.
- 30 Rock | 22 min | Comedy: Liz Lemon, head writer of the sketch comedy show "TGS with Tracy Jordan", must deal with an arrogant new boss and a crazy new star, all while trying to run a successful television show without losing her mind.