The New York Television Festival and Fox Entertainment are hosting a screenplay contest, Variety reports:

The best half-hour pilot script will earn its writer $25,000 and a development deal with Fox.

Submissions are open as of June 2 and will continue through June 13 or until 1,500 submissions are received.

The competition focuses on comedy scripts, and is the second one that Fox is helping host. Apparently their reliance on reality television is waning.

I’m excited to see this kind of project. I love competitions that let people at least get their script read, and possibly get feedback. While I know it didn’t really achieve it’s goals, I loved Project Greenlight for that reason. It let people get their work out there, find out what was good and what needs tweaking, and it gave a few people a chance to circumvent the system.

I like the democratization of art, because I think especially in Hollywood we’ve never really had it be a place where it was about finding and cultivating the most talented or the hardest working artists. I think it’s depressing how many talented writers are unable to tell their stories because they just don’t have a way to get their foot in the door.

So, is anybody going to enter? I think the first step towards writing great television is being a fan of great television, and our readers seem to fit that requirement.