Pitch TV Series NOT Profile Pieces

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Here’s a HUGE mistake aspiring producers make when pitching what they think are viable TV series: they pitch profile pieces instead. It’s something we’ve seen a rash of in the past few months, and we want to help you avoid this mistake immediately. Not kidding — we just passed on at least 40 or 50 projects that made the mistake we’ll help you remedy today. After today’s post, you will pitch TV series, and never, ever again accidentally pitch a profile piece disguised as unscripted television show.

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3 Steps: Pitch Cinematic Re-Creation TV Shows

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You’ve seen The Jinx on HBO. Enjoyed great crime recreation shows on Discovery ID. Laughed out loud at Drunk History on Comedy Central. Maybe even gasped at TLC’s Sex Sent Me to the ER. These are great, cinematic recreation shows. Today, we’re going to tell you how to create and pitch re-creation shows of your own. Who knows? Maybe we’ll even make one together.

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Style Guides for Reality TV: A How To

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When you start talking to a network, studio, or even a production company, one piece of creative material becomes crucial… your style guide. But what is a style guide? What goes in it? And why do politics and psychology play a huge role in how you put it together? Today, we’ll answer all those questions, plus give you real world examples of how we created style guides for three of our own television shows.

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Selling Reality TV: Your Questions Answered.

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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.

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The Bueller Podcast

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Bueller…Bueller…? This episode is more of a “love you and we’re thinking about you” message than a full podcast, although there is at least one piece of exciting news revealed…

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3 Steps to Win the Hollywood Numbers Game

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Hollywood is a numbers game. And it will drive you crazy. Today’s episode is about far more than simply selling a lot of projects. It’s about keeping your sanity and your happiness while pursuing a dream. Whether you’re pitching a reality TV show, writing screenplays, selling yourself as a director, or trying to work in any other area of showbusiness, today’s advice will help you get there in one piece.

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Soft Pitch Blueprint: Beyond Ideas for Reality TV Pitch Success

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In past we’ve encouraged you to “soft pitch” ideas. Unfortunately, we’ve never actually told you how to do that. The result is that many of you are sending in submissions that are not soft pitches at all. Instead, they are broad ideas that hurt your chances of success. That ends today. You’re about to learn how to soft pitch the right way. This will help you focus your resources, decide which projects to spend time on, and impress the heck out of us.

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Check Out Our Make Reality TV Podcast

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Want to Learn how to Make Reality TV?

Producing Unscripted Podcast with Joke and Biagio

We’re Joke and Biagio, and we make reality TV shows, documentaries, and factual programming for a living.

When we were starting out, it was almost impossible to get anyone to tell us HOW to break into unscripted film and television, much less get them to hear our pitches. We’re going to change all of that for you…

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Hollywood Pitch Meetings: Pro Tip For Success

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Just back from Real Screen 2015 (and both sides of the pitch table.) Having taken and overheard many “hollywood pitch meetings” gone wrong, we realized that most aspiring producers go wrong at the exact same point in their pitch meetings. Not you…not after today! Here’s the one thing you can do to guarantee you get something positive out of every single pitch meeting you take. It can be summed up in three words:

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