Create Competition Reality Shows: 3 Keys to Success

A lot’s going on this week! Our new show Don’t Trust Andrew Mayne on A&E was announced, our old show Scream Queens is available free on HULU, and we’re telling you how to create competition reality shows. Create Competition Reality Shows Many, many of you have asked questions about how to create competition reality shows (although they can be much harder to sell than docu-style shows.) Since HULU is playing our competition reality show Scream Queens for free (check it out!) we thought this would be a good time to give you a big picture over view of making competition reality shows. BTW, as promised in the podcast, here’s the EPK from Scream Queens, which was our first real-world test to prove we knew how to create competition reality shows. Scream Queens Season 2 EPK from Joke and Biagio. 3 Keys to Success Have a listen to today’s podcast to find out a few secrets it took us years to pick up. They’ll surely help you create competition reality shows that we’d be interested in hearing about. Press the giant red “Play” button above for the answers. Don’t Trust Andrew Mayne – Our Secret Show Revealed For those who missed the announcement, the top secret show we’ve been teasing for months has finally been announced. Read all about it here in our official Don’t Trust Andrew Mayne announcement. Scream Queens posts on our blog. Transcript coming soon! Helpful and Related Links Official A&E Facebook Page for Don’t Trust Andrew Mayne Whether you’re pitching competition reality (even if it is a long shot) or documentary series and hybrid formats (easier sells for new producers) we’d love to receive your pitches.

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*Named "New and Noteworthy" across all podcasts, as well as TV & Film, Arts, and Education. Subscribe now. Ready to create, pitch, and sell documentary series, unscripted TV shows or reality series and specials? From creating pitch tapes to meeting with TV networks, developing your ideas to discovering reality TV stars, this podcast features tips on working in unscripted film and television that you won't find anywhere else. Get top-industry secrets and even pitch your shows to Award-Winning Documentary Filmmakers and Unscripted Television Producers Joke Fincioen and Biagio Messina. Recently, the duo have helped both new and experienced producers bring projects to television on MTV, BIOGRAPHY CHANNEL, INVESTIGATION DISCOVERY, A&E, and CNN/HLN. Your show could be next. Subscribe now. ABOUT JOKE AND BIAGIO: With over a decade of experience in unscripted film and television, this married couple has made TV shows, specials, and pilots for CNN, HLN, A&E, The CW, Biography Channel, NBC, CBS, Discovery, Investigation Discovery, Discovery+, E!, IFC, Logo, Oxygen, Style Network, VH1 and MTV. Their feature length documentary DYING TO DO LETTERMAN played in theaters across America, was invited by the International Documentary Association to qualify for Academy Award® consideration, and named “New and Noteworthy” on iTunes alongside The Dark Knight Rises, Brave, and Beasts of the Southern Wild. Subscribers to this podcast will learn the secrets of the Unscripted TV and Film worlds, and how to apply them toward career success. Subscribe today.