5 Ways To Make Your TV Show A Classic

2. Kill Off A Main Character

When one watches the first ever Buffy story they are presented with a strange character Jesse. Jesse is everything Xander would become, hopeless with girls, terrible at telling the jokes he constantly spouts off. Jesse is never mentioned after his death in the first story nor is he even necessary to the story in which he features, but he does represents an important rule in television-writing €“ audiences get bored when they feel safe.

Violence is exciting and will thrill an average member of your audience far more than any scene of dialogue ever could, because there is the potential there to lose a character who they care about. If an audience doesn't think the show-runners have the guts to kill off a popular character then a lot of tension is lost, especially in shows like these ones.

Eddard Stark, Hank Schrader, James Doakes, Robb and Catelyn Stark, Maria LaGuerta, Mike Ehrmantraut number but a few of the characters whose deaths weren't just shocking but integral to the stories in which they were featured. If you're going to kill off a character make it integral to the plot which leads me on to my final point...