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Producing Unscripted: Make Reality TV and Documentary Series With Joke & Biagio

Ready to create, pitch, and sell reality TV shows or documentary series and specials? 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 new producers bring three projects ...

Ready to create, pitch, and sell reality TV shows or documentary series and specials? 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 new producers bring three projects to television on MTV, BIOGRAPHY CHANNEL, and A&E. 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 have made TV shows, specials, and pilots for A&E, The CW, Biography Channel, NBC, CBS, 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. This fall Joke and Biagio have 12 episodes of a new TV series airing on a major cable network. Subscribers to this podcast will be discover what that show is, how it was sold, and how to replicate the success for themselves. Subscribe today.

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