Based on the true story of a nurturing, but ambitious television series producer struggling to achieve emotional balance and fulfillment in her own life against the backdrop of teeming behind-the-scenes drama and the perpetual antics of the actors, crew and network executives involved in the production of her long-running, daily soap opera.

What is the producer's objective goal in this story? (It cannot be to achieve emotional balance and fulfilment - this is an inner goal. What would that even look like? You need to find visual representations to the character of emotional balance and fulfilment - perhaps she must settle a custody lawsuit with her estranged ex-husband?)

I'm not sure if nurturing but ambitious makes sense, because I don't think those two things conflict necessarily. In reference to dpg's objective goal problem, as this logline sounds similar to Murphy Brown/ 30 Rock maybe you could do something about pregnancy or something of that vein. Although your objective goal should probably be very unique because as it stands now the premise is very similar to the previously mentioned tv show as well as Sports Night.

Thanks again for helping zero in and focus this log line. I tried to send you a reply comment earlier, but I don't see it posted, so I will try to reconstruct the reply & see if I can get it to post this time. :)

This isn't a movie log line. It is for a serialized drama/comedy told from the point of view of the producer protagonist in some places in actual "voice-over," so we do have a little glimpse of her internal conflict from that perspective. Externally, we see her on screen observing actors & crew members interacting from time to time with their children and spouses, and we can see a bit of her wistfulness. Also, the protagonist interacts with a 20-something actress in her cast who had a child in her teens, gave the child up for adoption, and now is interested in finding the child. We also see the protagonist actually confiding in her production assistant/best friend that she hears her biological clock ticking and pondering whether she might be able to go it alone as a single mom.

Externally, we also see, in her effort to create the life she imagines for herself, the protagonist making a choice to enter into a "committed" relationship with one of the "playboy" actors on her show thinking she can domesticate him, and that ends badly. A recurring theme in the series is how the protagonist begins to come to grips with the fact that she simply may not be able to "have it all" in terms of a successful, high-profile career, a stable, loving committed relationship, and a family.

Any ideas for how I refine all this into the right kind of log line?