Articles Tagged ‘Survivor’
Primetime Emmy noms: Probst out, Betty White in
TVWhite gets a nomination in the best host in a reality or reality competition category, while the Survivor host and multiple winner doesn’t make the list. Also nominated this year in assorted categories: The Voice, Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory, George Harrison: Living in the Material World, and History’s scripted hit Hatfields & McCoys.
Upfronts 2012: CBS orders “The Job,” ABC dances with ‘all-stars’
TVA reality competition series from executive producers Mark Burnett and Michael Davies and an all-star edition of Dancing with the Stars (pictured) are among the unscripted programming Americans can expect in CBS and ABC’s fall seasons.
TCA Awards noms announced
TVRestrepo and If God is Willing and Da Creek Don’t Rise are among the non-fiction nominees for this year’s Television Critics Association Awards, and this year a reality category enters the mix. (pictured: Restrepo directors Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington)
U.S. broadcasters’ unscripted Upfronts: CBS and the CW
TVIt’s business as usual at the Eye, with a third season of Undercover Boss on tap for mid-season, and Survivor and The Amazing Race back for more. Meanwhile, the CW, announcing its sked tomorrow, will be stepping up its unscripted game, according to reports.
“Survivor” star Russell Hantz flips for A&E
NEWS / TVBesides being a Survivor contestant, Russell Hantz is also a house flipper, and his real estate hobby will be the focus of a new seven-part A&E series, Flipped.
Realscreen Summit: Mark Burnett’s life lessons
NEWS / TVMark Burnett turned humorous tales from his pitch session with business tycoon Donald Trump and brief stint as a Beverly Hills nanny into life lessons for producers during his opening keynote talk at the 2011 Realscreen Summit.
From the new issue of Realscreen: Mark Burnett talks
TVIn advance of his keynote presentation at the Realscreen Summit, realscreen spoke to the factual entertainment trailblazer about his career to date.
Mark Burnett, executive producer
NEWS“I do prefer the term ‘unscripted drama’ because to me it’s all about storytelling. I don’t even know what ‘reality’ means.”


