http://filmindustrybloggers.com/therealitytvproducer http://filmindustrybloggers.com/therealitytvproducer.jpg A Television Blog from Reality TV Producer in Hollywood Sun, 22 Feb 2009 00:38:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I wanted to share something with you - and apart from it just being interesting to me, I think it might say something about Reality TV as a genre. So, mid conversation yesterday my other-half was describing the trials and tribulations a friend of our's is experiencing in her career. Then ... http://filmindustrybloggers.com/therealitytvproducer/2009/02/21/reality-tv/ The most difficult thing to quantify is the time and money you'll spend meeting and greeting the producers and executives you're going to be working with. My parterns in my company certainly don't have the same appreciation for it that I do - but then again, I'm usually the one who ... http://filmindustrybloggers.com/therealitytvproducer/2009/02/15/network-with-your-network/ Further to my post of last week, this week a long running David / Golliath story just got wrapped up with a settlement of over $4M dollars being paid to Reality staffers for just the sorts of practaces I mentioned in last week's blog. The class action law-suit was brought by a ... http://filmindustrybloggers.com/therealitytvproducer/2009/01/23/reality-fights-back-remember-where-you-were/ So I was at dinner last night with some friends, one of whom has just returned from a shoot from hell, where her fellow crew members spent the entire 9 week shoot while travelling around the country complaining about everything. The sad thing is that as we talked over the minute-by-minute ... http://filmindustrybloggers.com/therealitytvproducer/2009/01/10/an-unholy-realty-tv-non-union/ I'm often asked how you can start working in Reality TV - and someone I'm working with now suggested I pass on to you some of the advice I gave her this week... so here it is, lucky you! Usually when someone asks me how to get into Reality TV, after I've checked ... http://filmindustrybloggers.com/therealitytvproducer/2008/11/18/cant-get-the-reality-staff/ So, a few months ago I made the case that the Olympics were the biggest reality show on Earth. I'm going to add to that a tie for first place - The US Presidential Election. For anyone crouching round a tv anywhere in the World this week you would have seen ... http://filmindustrybloggers.com/therealitytvproducer/2008/11/08/the-second-greatest-reality-show-on-earth/ Ok, so, I'm sorry I've been away for a couple of weeks. I always hate reading ‘sorry I didn't blog' at the top of these things, but in this case last week I got a late afternoon call to go and take over directing a network show in the wilds ... http://filmindustrybloggers.com/therealitytvproducer/2008/10/26/signing-your-life-away/ Last week we talked about Agents, and asked ‘As an Independent Producer, Do I Need One?' - so, today let's ask the same of the Lawyers. Do I need a lawyer? ‘In the beginning there were lawyers. And it was good. And value for money' At least that's how the revised draft ... http://filmindustrybloggers.com/therealitytvproducer/2008/10/04/i-am-the-law/ A question I'm often asked is 'as an indie producer do I need an agent?' It's a question I ask myself. Especially after getting off the phone with mine. Here's the truth. I'll make it snappy. 'No. You don't need an agent'. So, this should be a short blog, shouldn't it? We'll it's a ... http://filmindustrybloggers.com/therealitytvproducer/2008/09/24/do-i-need-an-agent/ So, last week a Canadian ‘comrade-in-the-struggle' dropped me a line asking how a truly indie-indie producer might go about getting their pitch into a network, and wanting some advice about what, as an Indie producer, is really important to consider when you are developing your idea into something that is ... http://filmindustrybloggers.com/therealitytvproducer/2008/09/05/in-space-nobody-can-hear-your-pitch/