The topic has come up some, recently—Spencer Robinson has been pretty firm on it. And I have no doubt that his professional observation is based on solid evidence. But it would be nice to get a broader sense of the field here, and see if this is a general principle industry-wide.
(Especially because I've just about finished the first act of a pilot for an animated comedy inspired by The Mask and Roger Rabbit—if I'm better off turning it into a movie, or pivoting to an idea that works better as a movie than a show, now is the time to figure that out.)
So there's the question: are new writers well-advised to aim for a movie, rather than a show, as their entry into the professional creative world, assuming that the project is a reasonable goal given the concepts they've got to develop?
