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One Huge Reason Your Concept Is Not a TV Show

Pitching a reality TV show, documentary or doc series? Avoid this one giant mistake, flip the script on your pitch & skyrocket your odds of selling a show.

Create Competition Reality Shows: 3 Keys to Success

Create competition reality shows? We've done it, our shows are on air for your to see, & today we share our big 3 secrets to competition reality TV success.

Don't Trust Andrew Mayne on A&E - Our Top Secret Show Revealed

Joke and Biagio announce their A&E series Don't Trust Andrew Mayne and preview the behind-the-scenes production lessons they planned to share.

How Not To Suck: Hollywood Advice We Love

What Goes in a Pitch Tape? Should You Make One?

3 Tips to Break Into Hollywood...and Stay There

Survive Production: 7 Weird Tips Guaranteed to Save Your Sanity and Help Avoid Burnout

Top Secret: What TV Networks Buy (And Why)

How do you know what TV networks buy? Who might buy your show? Which networks are more female or male centric? All your questions answered.

From Concept to TV Airwaves: 3 Examples From People Just Like You - Plus Takeaways

The process of getting a concept out of your head and on TV. How 3 people teamed up with us from pitch to series. Takeaways you can use to do the same.

Don't Pitch These 4 Kind of Shows

Great Reality TV Worlds Have These 4 Qualities

What makes for great reality TV worlds or documentary settings? These four qualities ensure amazing unscripted film and TV worlds.

Script Magazine names "Producing Unscripted" Site of the Week

Script Magazine named Producing Unscripted its Screenwriting Website of the Week. Joke and Biagio explain why storytelling matters in unscripted TV.

Thanks for Making Us New & Noteworthy All Across iTunes

Joke and Biagio thank early listeners after Producing Unscripted was featured in iTunes New & Noteworthy across several podcast categories.

Your Characters: 6 Must-Have Traits of Reality TV Characters and Documentary Subjects

Reality TV characters & documentary subjects: make sure they have these 6 traits before you invest your time and money building a project around them.

Pitch Reality TV Shows and Documentary Series With These 5 Magic Words

Pitch reality TV shows? Documentary series? Learn these 5 words & how to use them. Done correctly, you'll sound like a pro, and turbo-charge your career.

5 Steps to Develop Shows Without Going Broke

To develop shows for unscripted television, reality TV, and documentary series, you need to make great tape. Don't go broke producing it: here's how.

Unscripted TV Success: Instantly Up Your Odds with this Secret

Unscripted TV Success means selling your reality tv show concept or documentary series to a television network. Do this one thing and your odds skyrocket.

Why Ideas Aren't Enough in Hollywood, and How to Submit to Concepts to Us

Submit ideas to Hollywood? Jump-start your career by looking at ideas differently. Learn to create and package ideas instead, and how you can pitch to us.

Make Reality TV Shows & Documentary Series with Joke & Biagio

Want to produce unscripted television? Make reality TV, documentary series or unscripted specials? Here's your chance. Producing Unscripted Episode 1.

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