Schwartz got an agent and subsequently wrote a TV pilot called "Brookfield" for ABC/Disney while he was still studying at USC. It was a boarding school drama about wealthy kids in New England and was his first TV pilot script; it sold only a few months after he had sold his first feature film script. "Brookfield" was produced starring Amy Smart and Eric Balfour but never aired. Schwartz then dropped out of USC to work full-time and wrote another pilot called "Wall to Wall Records", a drama about working in a music store for Warner Bros. TV that was also produced but never aired.