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Noah Evslin

Noah Evslin

@nevslin.bsky.social

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TV writer/producer: Rescue HI Surf, NCIS:HI. Hawaii 5-0, Colony, Grey’s Anatomy, Scandal, Private Practice, more. Co-host SCREAMING INTO THE HOLLYWOOD ABYSS. Cancer warrior. From Kaua’i.

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Noah Evslin @nevslin.bsky.social · 2d

I just finished the last of 7 pitches this week for two different TV projects. While preparing 4 other projects to launch soon. Also woke up at 4:30 am every day to surf. Because a man’s gotta have hobbies. Stick a fork in me.

Noah Evslin @nevslin.bsky.social · 17d

Sure. Just email me. You still have my email right?

Noah Evslin @nevslin.bsky.social · 17d

Yes of course. And no you didn’t message me. I just don’t know if I remember what I posted back then.

Noah Evslin @nevslin.bsky.social · Oct 1

Might as well repost here as well…

Noah Evslin @nevslin.bsky.social · Sep 30

Can’t go wrong with rocky road.

Noah Evslin @nevslin.bsky.social · Sep 30

Ice cream eaten, taking rest of day off.

Where’s my Fortnite peeps at?

Noah Evslin @nevslin.bsky.social · Sep 30

Rocky road!!!

Noah Evslin @nevslin.bsky.social · Sep 30

Done. Exhausted. I’m gonna go eat some ice cream.

Noah Evslin @nevslin.bsky.social · Sep 29

Thank you, bud!

Noah Evslin @nevslin.bsky.social · Sep 29

Two different pitches today.

Both based on the life rights of amazing humans who did amazing things.

One features an undercover cop who took down his own mob family in Miami. 400 arrests in all.

The other about the creator of a wilderness medical program. Extreme medicine in extreme conditions.

Noah Evslin @nevslin.bsky.social · Sep 28

Insomnia is not. Then seeing a text come in. Then checking that text because you think it’s an emergency. Then perseverating on what they said even though totally not pressing.

Noah Evslin @nevslin.bsky.social · Sep 28

No caps for Fortnite texts

Noah Evslin @nevslin.bsky.social · Sep 28

Right?

Noah Evslin @nevslin.bsky.social · Sep 28

No I think people should send scripts to actors through the proper channels.

Noah Evslin @nevslin.bsky.social · Sep 28

The only correct way is to throw the script over the celebrity’s wall with a $1000 gift card to Pink Berry.

Noah Evslin @nevslin.bsky.social · Sep 28

For the latter, there’s a thin line between shooting your shot and pissing off the person you’re emailing.

Actually, scratch that, there’s no line at all.

Don’t send unsolicited scripts. Don’t ask people you don’t know to risk relationships (that they might not even have).

Tired.

Noah Evslin @nevslin.bsky.social · Sep 28

Just got a 3am text from a producer with “middle of the night thoughts” on a pitch.

Love the excitement. But email is your friend. And timezones.

Also got sent an unsolicited script from somebody I barely know asking me to get project to “X big name actor.”

1/10. Don’t recommend.

Noah Evslin @nevslin.bsky.social · Sep 14

I just watched a very mediocre K-Drama… or what some may call an “Ok-Drama”.

Noah Evslin @nevslin.bsky.social · Sep 14

I had two pieces of paid development this year. I know. Crazy.

Noah Evslin @nevslin.bsky.social · Sep 14

This was actually a paid development deal with somebody from the special forces community. I spent the last 6 mos researching that world before I started writing and in the process it completely transformed my opinion of Green Berets and Operation Enduring Freedom.

Can’t wait for people to read

Noah Evslin @nevslin.bsky.social · Sep 14

Logline: After a deadly ambush in Afghanistan exposes a possible traitor inside the chain of command, a decorated Green Beret must testify before Congress — but as his story unfolds, so does a buried conspiracy that threatens to unravel everything he fought to protect.

Genre: Military thriller.

Noah Evslin @nevslin.bsky.social · Sep 14

I just turned in a revised draft of maybe my favorite TV pilots of all time. I don’t normally share loglines but since it’s going out soon, here it is:

Title: THE BERET

Noah Evslin @nevslin.bsky.social · Sep 11

I asked my 9yo son if he’d ever want to do my job (tv writing).

9yo: Parts of it seem fun.

Me: Oh yeah? Which parts?

9yo: The parts where you eat a lot of candy and walk around your office mumbling to yourself.

Me:

a man in a blue shirt and tie is sitting at a desk in an office

ALT: a man in a blue shirt and tie is sitting at a desk in an office

media.tenor.com

Noah Evslin @nevslin.bsky.social · Sep 11

TV writing rule #387: No matter how many times you might have gone to the bathroom that day, or how constipated you might be, three minutes before any pitch you’ll have to use the bathroom again.

There are no exceptions to this rule.

Noah Evslin @nevslin.bsky.social · Sep 8

How many people out there just googled “Is Lachlan Murdoch liberal or conservative?”