Templates/Web Series

Web Series Templates

Short-form episodic content designed for online platforms like YouTube, Vimeo, and social media. Episodes typically run 5 to 15 minutes (5-15 pages). Web series thrive on high concepts, tight hooks, and binge-friendly cliffhangers. Lower budgets demand creative ingenuity.

5-15 pages per episode|20 genres
5-10 pages per episode

Action Web Series

Fast-paced web episodes that deliver contained action within tight runtimes. Web action thrives on practical choreography, minimal dialogue, and immediate hooks.

Mortal Kombat: LegacyBite Size HalloweenThe Vault
5-10 pages per episode

Comedy Web Series

Quick-hit comedic web content built around a central comic premise that generates laughs in every episode. Comedy is the dominant web series genre — competition is fierce.

Broad City (web series)High Maintenance (web series)Awkward Black Girl
5-12 pages per episode

Drama Web Series

Intimate dramatic web series that use short runtimes to deliver concentrated emotional storytelling, often with the raw, personal quality that distinguishes web content from traditional TV.

Her StoryEast Los HighSkam
6-12 pages per episode

Thriller Web Series

Serialized web suspense designed for binge consumption, with episode-ending hooks that make clicking 'next' irresistible. The short format creates natural cliffhangers.

Marble HornetsDon't Hug Me I'm ScaredThe Lizzie Bennet Diaries
5-10 pages per episode

Horror Web Series

Short-form horror that leverages the intimacy of watching on a personal device — phone, laptop, in bed, alone. Web horror is uniquely positioned to blur fiction and reality.

Marble HornetsDon't Hug Me I'm ScaredLocal 58
5-12 pages per episode

Sci-Fi Web Series

Concept-driven web series that explore speculative ideas within the constraints of web budgets. Sci-fi web series succeed by being smart, not expensive.

Dust (anthology)Oats StudiosH+: The Digital Series
5-12 pages per episode

Romance Web Series

Serialized love stories built for episodic online consumption, with romantic tension that builds across short installments and keeps audiences returning for the next beat of the relationship.

The Lizzie Bennet DiariesEmma ApprovedHer Story
5-10 pages per episode

Crime Web Series

Web crime series that deliver investigation, heists, or underworld drama in compressed episodes, often using true-crime aesthetics and interactive audience engagement.

WigsMoriarty: The Web SeriesThe Vault
5-10 pages per episode

Mystery Web Series

Puzzle-based web series that turn the audience into investigators, distributing clues across episodes and rewarding careful viewers who piece the mystery together before the reveal.

Marble HornetsThe Lizzie Bennet DiariesFrankenstein, MD
5-12 pages per episode

Fantasy Web Series

Imaginative web series that build fantastical worlds within indie budgets, using creative practical effects, animation, and production design to create magic on screen.

The GuildStandard ActionJourneyQuest
6-12 pages per episode

Western Web Series

Frontier web series that use the genre's visual iconography and moral simplicity to create compelling episodic content, often with modern twists or genre mashups.

The Haunted WestSix GunsHalo: Nightfall (web prequel)
5-10 pages per episode

War Web Series

Contained military web series that focus on small-unit stories, personal diaries, or single engagements rather than large-scale battle sequences.

The ProfessionalsHalo: Forward Unto DawnBattlefield Friends
6-12 pages per episode

Musical Web Series

Music-driven web series where performances are the centerpiece, leveraging the platform's strength in music discovery and shareable performance content.

Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along BlogThe Misadventures of Awkward Black GirlSubmissions Only
5-12 pages per episode

Biographical Web Series

Short biographical web series that profile real people through dramatized vignettes, often using the web's freedom from broadcast standards to tell unconventional stories.

Drunk History (web version)Hot Ones (narrative elements)Worth It
5-12 pages per episode

Historical Web Series

Period web series that bring history to life in short, accessible episodes, using creative production solutions to evoke the past without feature-film budgets.

Drunk History (web version)Epic Rap Battles of HistoryAssassin's Creed: Lineage
5-10 pages per episode

Noir Web Series

Stylish, atmospheric web noir that uses the format's intimacy and visual flexibility to create a moody, rain-soaked world of crime, corruption, and moral compromise.

Gotham (web shorts)Sin City (fan series)Transference
5-10 pages per episode

Supernatural Web Series

Web series exploring ghosts, psychic phenomena, and the uncanny through formats that blur the line between fiction and reality — found footage, vlogs, and screen-based storytelling.

Marble HornetsLocal 58The Backrooms
5-10 pages per episode

Family Web Series

All-ages web series that deliver warmth, humor, and life lessons in short, shareable episodes that parents and kids can enjoy together on any device.

Don't Hug Me I'm ScaredBee and PuppyCatThe Annoying Orange
7-12 pages per episode

Sports Web Series

Athletic web series that combine competition, training, and personal drama in short episodes, often centered on niche or emerging sports that traditional media ignores.

Dude Perfect (narrative)The Come UpFight Night
5-10 pages per episode

Political Web Series

Satirical or dramatic political web series that use the platform's lack of broadcast restrictions to deliver sharp, timely political commentary through narrative fiction.

Between Two FernsPawnee: The Greatest Town in America (web shorts)The Real Housewives of ISIS (satire)

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