BET Networks and writer/director/producer Tracy Oliver (First Wives Club, Girls Trip, Little) are giving aspiring and emerging TV writers the opportunity to develop an original comedy for the small screen with the return of the nationwide competition titled, PROJECT CRE8.

BET will purchase the winning script for $25,000 and work with the winner and Oliver’s Tracy Yvonne Productions to develop a comedy series for BET Networks.

Submissions for original comedy television pilots are now open and can be made through BET.com/Cre8.

Submissions close on March 7th. After that, the top 30 submissions will be announced and advanced to round two. The Top 30 writers will be given seven days to submit a series treatment of up to five pages. BET and Tracy Yvonne Productions will judge the screenplays and treatments, narrowing down the top 30 submissions to the top five for the Final Round. The top five finalists will pitch their concept to panel of successful TV producers, writers and executives. The winner will be announced later this spring.

Last year BET and Paramount Players debuted the competition, thrusting contest winner Quincy Ledbetter of Brooklyn, NY into the director’s chair with a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to direct his original script, “Alieu the Dreamer,” which was filmed over the summer.

We will have clips from last years PROJECT CRE8 contest plus B-roll from First Wives Club, which Tracy produced!