What is the average Page/Time ratio in a script?

Question

When writing a script for a show or movie, what is the ratio on how much time is in page? Like how many minutes are in a 10 page script? Or how many pages are in a 10 minute show?

Answer 1

That all depends on what percent of that writing is dialog. If you write 10 pages that is almost nothing but dialog, you pretty much have written a full 22 minute episode.

If instead you invest a lot of words into describing actions, settings, tone, etc, then the 10 pages may only take up 5 minutes or less of screen time.