Television Editing and Proofreading Services

Television is written by groups, for a machine that must keep running. A returning series has a writers' room, several directors, a production schedule that starts before the scripts are finished, and an audience that will spot in episode nine that a character has changed her mind about something established in episode two. The individual script is the visible artefact; what makes a series coherent is the documentation around it, and shows that get into trouble almost always have a documentation problem before they have a script problem.

We edit what television producers, writers and production companies produce — series bibles and format documents, pitch decks and one-pagers for commissioners, episode outlines, beat sheets and story documents, scripts across drama, comedy and factual formats, character breakdowns and casting briefs, season arc and episode grid documentation, continuity and canon documents, writers' room material and script notes, production and format documentation for scripted and unscripted shows, format bibles for international licensing, compliance and legal read submissions, and press kits and awards submission material. Our editors work to your house script format and to the broadcaster or platform's delivery requirements.

The series bible is the document that makes a show reproducible by people who were not in the room when it was invented, and most are written as sales documents and never revised. A bible that explains the tone, the world and the characters in evocative prose sells the pitch and is useless to the writer joining in season two. We rewrite these so the show's engine is stated explicitly — what generates a story every week, and why this premise produces a hundred episodes rather than four — so each character has their want, their flaw, the thing they will never do, and what has to be true for them to change, since that last item is what stops a room writing the same arc repeatedly; so the rules of the world are stated as rules with their exceptions, because an unstated rule gets broken by a guest writer in episode seven; and so continuity is recorded as a living document rather than an appendix, with the decisions that turned out to matter flagged. Bibles maintained this way save a room weeks per season.

Everything you send is treated in confidence, including unannounced projects, scripts under embargo and material subject to option or platform agreement. We are editors rather than producers, showrunners or script consultants, and we offer no view on story decisions, casting or commercial prospects. What we can do is make the documentation usable and the scripts clean and correctly formatted.