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Hannah McFarland

April 18, 2017February 6, 2012 by Biagio

Hannah McFarland

She’s the heart and soul of our 3rd Caged episode, and her story continued in a major way during last week’s episode 4…

And yet I’ve never interviewed her, filmed with her or even had the pleasure of meeting her.

An Amazing Story

For anyone who hasn’t seen an episode of Caged (BTW, you can catch up on MTV.COM), Hannah’s life was tragically cut short 4 years ago and she was the girlfriend of cage fighter Daniel and sister of his best friend Dane, both of whom we follow on the show.

Hearing Hannah’s story and living with Daniel through the immense pressure leading up to his fight on the anniversary of her death, experiencing the electricity in the air that night of the fight, was one of the most amazing experiences in my life.

It is also the reason why I love unscripted story telling.

Caged on MTV – Behind the Scenes of Episode 1

April 18, 2017January 12, 2012 by Joke

WARNING: SPOILER ALERT — Episode 1 MTV Caged Details Dead Ahead!

Making Caged for MTV: In The Beginning

April 18, 2017January 9, 2012 by Joke

Our new show Caged officially premieres tonight at 10pm, 9 central on MTV.

We’ve blogged about how the show idea was brought to us and the process of getting the greenlight, and if you haven’t already, you can read all about the Caged cast and their backstories over at MTV, but for this post I’ll try and tell the story of how these wonderful people snuck inside my heart and have made a home there.

Sports Illustrated Compares CAGED to Friday Night Lights

April 18, 2017January 8, 2012 by Biagio

Sometimes, when you cry yourself to sleep, it’s because you’re happy. From Sports Illustrated: The wide variety of compelling backstories have to overlap in a town that makes Friday Night Lights’ fictional Dillon look big…None of the shows characters are perfect protagonists…They’re all real characters that can be easily related to…Caged definitely doesn’t follow the … Read more

Tae Kwon Do Champ Sabrina Schmeck Speaks Out About Caged on MTV

April 18, 2017January 6, 2012 by Biagio

As you know if you hang around this blog, several years of working to bring our new doc series Caged to MTV is about to kick off in a big way. Caged officially premieres this Monday night, Januaray 9th at 10pm, 9 central.

MTV Caged: Sneak Peek of Episode One Tonight

April 18, 2017January 5, 2012 by Joke

Cage fighter Wesley Branch featured in Entertainment Weekly’s Must List

Caged: January 5th, 2012

We’re on a plane to Shreveport, Louisiana. Tonight we get to share a few of the upcoming episodes of MTVs Caged with our main cast members and tomorrow we will throw a private screening/party for them, their friends and the community that welcomed us.

MTV Caged Trailer: Official Preview Trailer for Caged on MTV

April 18, 2017December 7, 2011 by Biagio

Trailer for Caged on MTV

MTVs Caged is our new TV show, and as you know from previous posts, this one is truly close to our hearts. As executive producers, co-creators, and hands-on creatives we feel this is our finest work to date.

Have a look and see why the kids on CAGED have won our hearts:

(embedded from MTV, so please give it a second to load.)

MTV Shows

MTVs Caged: Official Joke and Biagio Twitter Feed…

April 18, 2017December 6, 2011 by Biagio

Caged on MTV is our new TV show, an unscripted series following amateur mixed-martial arts fighters in small town Louisiana.

The show is very close to our hearts (as you can read in Joke’s very personal journal entry about Caged, and we believe it to be the finest TV we’ve made to date.

MTVs Caged: May I never Forget This Feeling by Joke Fincioen

April 18, 2017December 2, 2011 by Joke

Biagio: Today, Variety broke the news that our new show CAGED will premiere on January 9th at 10pm/9 central on MTV.

We love this show. We feel it’s the very best television we’ve ever made.

Joke, my wife and business partner, shared this journal entry with me, and I was so moved I asked her if I could share it with you. After thinking about it for a while, she gave me the go ahead.

Far more than “just another TV show” for the two of us, CAGED represents everything we ever hoped to accomplish in unscripted television.

I hope her words will touch you as they did me.

Featured Kickstarter Project: Bloodsworth from Gregory Bayne

April 18, 2017November 28, 2011 by Biagio

We’re knee deep in post-production duties on our new show MTV’s CAGED, but had to take a quick moment to share a terrific Kickstarter project we recently backed from Gregory Bayne. It’s called Bloodsworth: An Innocent Man and chronicles the story of the first person on death row cleared by DNA evidence. Here’s some video … Read more