2025 Industry Predictions - Pilot Season - Production Updates

By Abigail Hardin, January 07, 2025

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Happy New Year, UTD!

I hope this finds you well, wonderful, working, and ready to deep-dive into the abundant opportunities of the New Year! The end of 2024 was a whirl, as the holidays often are, and I for one welcome the resolve and back-to-work energy of the New Year. Give me a schedule and routine any day. As we set off on a new trip around the sun, what are some career goals you have for 2025? Maybe book your first co-star or guest star role on TV? Maybe finally get new headshots or revamp your reels? Maybe look for new or better representation that aligns with your career path and focus. Whatever your goal, I encourage you to set aside some time this week and write down actionable steps to achieving this goal. What is one step you can take today? What is an attainable smaller goal for 1 month, 3 months, and 6 months? These smaller goals should all support and move you closer to the larger year-end picture. Here are a few easy tasks you can take today:

Create a vision board to assist your manifestation work
Define your castable type and create a targeted area of focus
Research projects currently casting in your area
Find, filter, and target new talent agents and talent managers looking for clients like you
Review and refresh your marketing materials (headshot, resume, reels, etc.)

With daily work, we can move stagnant energy and level up our career and experience in general. So again I ask you, what do you want from 2025?

We want to hear about your success!

Speaking of success, we are revamping our UTDA client PR and are excited to announce a new social media campaign promoting your successes!

If you have a recent career success (booked work, gotten new representation, had a project get Festival notice wins in 2024, etc.), we'd love to hear from you and feature your success story on our UTDA Social Media accounts. Send us your details and we'll shout it out!

This is the info that we need:

Headshot or show shot as a low-res jpeg
Info on bookings/career news etc
Dates/airings/screenings/festivals etc
Agent/Manager representation info and for what area
Your social media handles

Part of creating more success is acknowledging and celebrating the achievements we already have created. We can't wait to hear about and celebrate all that you did in 2024!

Lastly, before we deep dive into the news from the holidays and New Year, if you need an extra jolt to make the most of this season, Annie and I will be hosting a free workshop next week with Actors Connection. We hope you can join us as we discuss Pilot Season 2025, what you need to know about the state of production, and how you can book your own film & TV work. Read more below. The event is free but registration is required.

January 15, 2025 @ 3:00 PM ET — Pilot Season 2025 with Actors Connection

Here's to an amazing New Year! Let's get manifesting!

Free Workshop: 1/15 - Pilot Season 2025

Do you feel lost in the Pilot Season maze?

TV & Pilot Season can be a confusing time for many actors. The"season" is continuing to change and evolve from the old school traditional January-April model as streamers shake up the industry and move to shooting pilots all year long. In this seminar, we will explore these new trends and how projected production is shaping up in the first months of 2025.

Career coach Annie Chadwick, Up-To-Date Theatricals, and Up-To-Date Actor creator Abigail Hardin will walk you through this maze and show you all of the abundant possibilities that await you through this busy audition season. Be informed so that you can take steps towards furthering your career with specificity and increase your quantity of high-caliber auditions.

In this seminar, they will explore all aspects of the 2025 Pilot Season & answer the following questions and much more:

Do you know the new trends changing the format of Pilot Season and the overall process?
What is the wheel of the year for Pilot and TV production?
Do you know how you can find out more details about Pilots and new series as they are announced, prior to casting announcements?
What comes after Pilot Season?

The event is free but registration is required.

January 15, 2025 @ 3:00 PM ET — Pilot Season 2025 with Actors Connection

2025 Predictions!

Production

Tax Incentives

International

Film & TV Business

Upfronts

Streaming

Awards Season

Golden Globes

Content

A.I.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Actors on Acting

Quick Bites

What to Watch

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