Show Runners

Try to land a job as a production assistant at a television production company to break into the industry.

Visit https://www.entertainmentcareers.net/jobs/s/Showrunner for job listings.

Read The Hollywood Reporter (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com) to stay abreast of industry news.

If you have experience as a producer, apply for membership in the Producers Guild of America. Members receive access to job shadowing and mentorship opportunities, receive a complimentary subscription to its quarterly publication Produced By, and can attend its annual Produced By Conference (http://producedbyconference.com) to network and participate in continuing education opportunities.

Develop your writing skills by taking classes and writing scripts. Practice writing scripts and submit spec scripts to networks and production companies. A spec script is an unsolicited screenplay that a screenwriter creates to show his or her skills in the hopes that it will be optioned and eventually developed. It can be an episode of an existing series or an entirely new idea for a show.