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Want to break in to Hollywood? Here’s some things we’ve picked up along the way. Come here for tips, tricks, and tutorials from the trenches of showbiz, as well as techniques that will help you on any production, whether film, TV, scripted, reality, or documentary.
Our new resource on pitching reality TV is a free guide and ebook I coerced Joke into writing with me :-) We set out to make it the ultimate free resource about pitching reality TV anywhere on the web. Our TV Shows and YOU As many of you know, we work extensively in Unscripted Television, … Read more
Oxygen has announced SISTER WITCHES, a new show we have in development with the network. While we can’t say more than what’s in the press release, we CAN tell you we’re super excited about the show.
ALSO, the show came from two of YOU. Intrigued? Learn how to pitch us your shows at Producing Unscripted.
Twitter has been good to us. We’ve funded the release of a film, built an audience for our new podcast, and, most importantly, met many, many amazing people. One of them is Nicholas Brandt, or Super Nick, as we’re fond of calling him. A screenwriter, film lover, and all around amazing dude (who KNOWS how … Read more
This Monday, August 5th, our series The Ghost Inside My Child returns to Biography Channel. This Show Came From One Of You Originally pitched to us by Suzanne Stratford from Cleveland, this show is another example of people just like you who’ve brought your show ideas our way. (MTV’s CAGED was another example.) Let’s Make … Read more
As you know, awhile back we started an experiment.
Despite warnings from our agents and lawyers, we started accepting show pitches from people willing to sign a submission agreement.
That experiment has paid off.
We credit our unorthodox outreach in helping put CAGED on MTV, GHOST INSIDE MY CHILD on BIO, and to finding our latest MTV True Life Presents: SECRETS, LIES, AND SEX, and most importantly, helping new producers and filmmakers break into the business.
We often say things like “send us your show pitches” and “make great tape.”
Sure, easy for us to say. We’ve been doing it for a decade. But statements like that aren’t helpful to you.
So we’ve been working to make it easier for you to pitch shows to us.
Over the last month, we’ve secretly been recording a new podcast called:
Producing Unscripted: Make Reality TV Shows and Documentary Series with Joke and Biagio.
The goal of the podcast is simple: to help you create, develop, pitch, and sell unscripted television and film.
Hopefully, by teaming up with us.
As owners of our production company, Joke Productions, Inc., we’ve been on both sides of a Hollywood pitch meeting. The selling side, when we’re out convincing networks to buy our shows, and… The receiving side, when taking unscripted TV pitches from agents, producers, talent, and some of you. In more than a few emails and … Read more
Who wouldn’t want to sell two TV pilots in the course of 8 months? Well, that’s what Wendy C Squirewell did. How? We’re very proud to share this message we received from Wendy yesterday:
“Since joining the list and taking your advice I have two pilots ordered at two different networks.”
Just what list is she talking about?
Set your DVRs! Out latest TV special is THE GHOST INSIDE MY CHILD, premiering Friday, November 23, at 10pm 9 central on BIO (The Biography Channel.) It’s about children who have unexplainable memories of dying in a past life. As new parents ourselves, we were both fascinated and a little terrified of the subject matter. … Read more
Rian Johnson sold LOOPER the same way we’ve sold all of our TV shows and pilots…using great tape to generate excitement.
If you haven’t seen it already, Rian released the “clip-o-matic” tape he put together to help generate interest in his latest box-office hit LOOPER starring Bruce Willis and Joseph Gordon- Levitt.
Have a peek:
Talk about a super-cool behind the scenes look at the birth of a film.
Clip reels like these are created for every kind of project you can imagine, and the good ones really do open doors.
A question we get nine times a day.
Turns out, the answer may lie in a post from Zen Master, psychotherapist, and Karate black-belt Mary Jaksch.