A Feature Score Is Not a Television Score
Quilty publishes different pillars, weights, and band names for film and television. The same 70 is not the same judgment.
Writers move drafts between formats. A feature becomes a limited series. A pilot is asked to “work as a movie.” The notes do not survive that move unchanged, and Quilty’s own score page says the scales should not either. This is a reading of that page on October 8, 2026. No pilot and no feature were uploaded.
Two scales, both published
For a feature, the methodology page lists four pillars: Story & Craft 35 percent, Market Viability 30 percent, Culture & Resonance 20 percent, Feasibility 15 percent. Story & Craft is marked static. Market and culture are marked dynamic. Feasibility is marked semi-static. The film bands start at 75 for Strong Greenlight and call anything below 55 a Pass.
For television, the same page lists five pillars and says the weights move with format. The figures printed for the default TV scale are Series Engine & Craft 30 percent, Character & Ensemble 20 percent, Platform & Market 20 percent, Cultural Resonance 15 percent, and Production & Business 15 percent. The page says weights shift for limited series, procedurals, and anthologies, including a higher cultural weight for limited series and a higher ensemble weight for procedurals. TV bands are different words: 75 or above is Straight-to-Series, 70–74 is Pilot Order, 65–69 is Development Deal, 55–64 is Significant Revision, and below 55 is Pass.
A film 70 is inside Conditional Greenlight on the film scale (68–71). A television 70 is inside Pilot Order (70–74). They are not a shared grade. What your Quilty Score means stays on the film scale and says so. Use this page when the document in your hand is a pilot, a bible, or a series.
The report guide says a TV report covers pilot evaluation, platform fit, budget, binge-worthiness, renewal, audience, season arc, and writers-room signals. A feature report is the four-part document: story, market, culture, production. Uploading a pilot into a feature-shaped expectation will produce notes about a closed ending. The TV page says that failure mode out loud: a script that “functions as a closed-loop narrative rather than an open-ended series” sits in the revision band.
What breaks when you carry notes across
A feature note that says “end the story” can be the right note on a feature and the wrong note on a series engine. A television note that says “save it for season two” can be the right note on a pilot and a dodge on a feature that has to pay off.
ScriptReader.ai’s public table is priced per screenplay and does not publish a separate television pillar system. Do not assume a ScriptReader feature read is a series read. Ask the product which format it thinks you uploaded.
Quilty’s help center says uploading a TV pilot or series runs a free preview, and that a full TV analysis is a separate charge. Confirm that charge at checkout. The film price on the pricing page, $49.99 for one full analysis, is not automatically the television price. The pricing page also said a plan credit can be a feature, a series, a treatment, a stage play, or a pitch. That sentence is about subscription credits. It does not mean the scales are the same.
Takeaways
- Read the format printed on the report before you read the number.
- Film and television bands use different words and different cut points. A 70 is not a 70.
- A closed ending and an open engine are different crafts. Notes have to know which one you are writing.
- If the product does not say which scale it used, do not invent the translation.
Sources checked October 8, 2026
- Quilty Score methodology. Film pillars and bands. Television pillars, format-adaptive weights, and television bands.
- Quilty report guide. Feature report parts and TV report topics.
- Quilty help. TV preview and a separate full TV analysis.
- Quilty pricing. $49.99 full analysis, and plan credits described across formats.
- ScriptReader.ai. Per-screenplay pricing. No separate television scale on the public table.