Selling Reality TV: Your Questions Answered.

It’s episode 50! 50 episodes? We can hardly believe it ourselves. Thanks to all of you who’ve tuned in, written to us, sent in submissions, and encouraged us to get this far. Today, to celebrate, we turned the content over to you. We’re answering questions directly from listeners. We bet at least one of these questions (if not more) have been on your mind. Today, we answer them.   Straight From You   Just some of the questions we tackle today: * Can you work on the shows you pitch? Or will you be sidelined? * Who owns a reality TV show or documentary series? * What if you live overseas? * Can you run the shows you pitch? * What if you don’t know all the showbiz “lingo” people are using? And so much more! Hit the giant “PLAY” button above and prepare you mind for Hollywood success. Transcript Coming Soon! Helpful and Related Links How to Pitch a Reality Show — our ultimate, free guide. Read it, you’ll be miles ahead of the competition. 5 Ways You Can Break into Unscripted Television — whether you want to work on a show, be on a show, or just make some pocket change, we cover it all here. Step By Step: TV Idea to TV Show — interivew with two hands on producers we teamed up with to sell a pilot to a major cable network. Reality TV Worlds — can you set a TV show in a bland office? Does the world really matter? Have a listen. Okay, some of you have listened to all fifty episodes and know the drill. If you’re new, here’s what’s next:

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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.