Bongo Pictures founder and longtime unscripted executive Michael Bloom joins Jimmy Fox for the latest edition of the Unscripted and Unprepared podcast, hosted and produced by Fox in partnership with Realscreen and available via Apple, Spotify, Stitcher and PodBean, among other outlets.
During the conversation, the pair touch on Bloom’s (pictured) time at MTV developing and delivering influential unscripted programming in the Spring Break and Beach House era, working with celebs such as 50 Cent and Paris Hilton, his stints running unscripted departments at AMC, Fox Sports and Turner Networks, and what lies ahead for his recently established prodco.
Past episodes of Unscripted and Unprepared, a series of conversations with the most influential players in the unscripted television industry, have featured Freeform’s Jamila Hunter, Brian Volk-Weiss, Dan Cutforth and Jane Lipsitz, Howard T. Owens, Arthur Smith, Brent Montgomery, Nancy Glass, Mark Itkin, Jonathan Murray, Cori Abraham, Thom Beers, World of Wonder’s Fenton Bailey, former Epix unscripted head Rachel Brill, History’s Eli Lehrer, Propagate Content’s Ben Silverman, ID’s Jane Latman, TLC’s Jason Sarlanis, ITV America’s David Eilenberg, and Showtime’s Vinnie Malhotra, among many others.
Jimmy Fox’s production credits with Main Event Media include CNN’s United Shades of America with W. Kamau Bell and Amazon’s Inside Jokes.