Is the series bible exported as a document?

Not as a file. It lives on the pitch and episode pages, and the public pitch page shows the parts you choose to make public. You can copy any field.

How many cast members can the bible hold?

Six on the cast sheet, each with a role. A single take uses up to three of them; different takes can use different trios.

Does the drafting model really read earlier episodes?

Yes. Each draft includes the series premise, tone, cast sheet and the most recent ten episodes’ synopses and cliffhangers.

Can two shows share a cast member?

Library items are yours across all your pitches, so the same portrait can sit on two cast sheets.

Who owns the series and episodes I make here?

You do. Everything the service produces at your direction belongs to you under our terms of service, and you can publish it, sell it or keep it private. Because copyright is handled differently by each country, check with a lawyer in yours before signing anything that depends on ownership.

Series bible generator

A series bible is the document a show keeps so that episode nine still sounds like episode one. On Show Creator the bible is not a separate file: it is the pitch, the cast sheet, the act structure and the episode log, and the drafting model reads all of it every time it writes.

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Every episode, same five acts

Cold openAct oneAct twoAct threeTag

Twelve beats, one take each, four to fifteen seconds a take.

What goes in the bible

Writers’ rooms keep a bible because memory is unreliable and tone drifts. The parts that matter most are the premise, the cast with who they are to each other, the tone, and what has already happened. Show Creator stores each of those where the tools can reach them, rather than in a document nobody opens after week two.

The premise is the logline and the longer synopsis on the pitch card. Tone is the tone line and the mood words. The cast is the cast sheet: library portraits, names, and a role for each. What has happened is the episode log: every episode’s title, synopsis and cliffhanger, in order.

Premise: logline plus an optional synopsis of up to 1,500 characters.
Tone: a tone line and up to six mood words.
Cast sheet: up to six portraits with roles, reused as render references.
Structure: the fixed five-act sheet every episode is written into.
Log: title, synopsis and cliffhanger per episode, up to sixty episodes.

The cast sheet as a continuity tool

Because the cast sheet is made of library items, it does two jobs at once. On the page it is a list of who is in the show. On the take desk it is the set of reference images the renderer uses, so the mentor has the same face in every take and the same outfit if you attach one. Change an outfit on the sheet and every later take can pick it up.

Roles are free text, kept short. “The lead”, “her estranged brother”, “the landlord who knows”. They are included word for word when an episode is drafted, which is how a bible should work: write the relationship down once and the room remembers it.

The structure that never changes

The act structure is the part of the bible you cannot edit, on purpose. Cold open, act one, act two, act three, tag, with a beat budget per act. Every episode of every show on this site is written into it. That is what makes a season feel like a season: the audience learns the rhythm, and the writers are freed from reinventing the shape each week.

A bible that writes the next episode

When you draft episode two, the model is handed the premise, the tone, the cast sheet with roles, and the pilot’s synopsis and cliffhanger, then asked to pay the cliffhanger off inside the same five acts. By episode six it is handed the last ten synopses. The bible is not a reference you consult; it is the context every draft is built from, for two credits per episode.

Sample takes

Rendered from beats like yours

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Morning light through the slatted doors of a riverside boathouse. Leila, late 20s with a high black ponytail, tests the weight of a brass padlock on a chain and says to Rhys, "They locked us out of our own boat."

A cramped thrift-store stockroom under a bare bulb. Esme, mid 30s with a blunt black bob, pulls a hand-drawn storyboard flipbook from a coat pocket on the rack and whispers, "This is the pilot. He never lost it."

A suspended window-washing platform high on a glass tower at golden hour. Lazlo, late 30s with salt-flecked curls, squeegees a pane and sees, through the glass, a folded memo on a desk with one line highlighted. He stops wiping.

A 24-hour pharmacy at night, rain on the front glass. Abram, mid 20s in dark paramedic blues, slides a long curling receipt across the counter and asks, "Who signed for this?" The pharmacist does not look up.

Questions

Is the series bible exported as a document?: Not as a file. It lives on the pitch and episode pages, and the public pitch page shows the parts you choose to make public. You can copy any field.
How many cast members can the bible hold?: Six on the cast sheet, each with a role. A single take uses up to three of them; different takes can use different trios.
Does the drafting model really read earlier episodes?: Yes. Each draft includes the series premise, tone, cast sheet and the most recent ten episodes’ synopses and cliffhangers.
Can two shows share a cast member?: Library items are yours across all your pitches, so the same portrait can sit on two cast sheets.
Who owns the series and episodes I make here?: You do. Everything the service produces at your direction belongs to you under our terms of service, and you can publish it, sell it or keep it private. Because copyright is handled differently by each country, check with a lawyer in yours before signing anything that depends on ownership. Read the terms of service.

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