RealScreen magazine is, as it says on its web site, “the only publication written specifically for and about the business of factual and non-fiction programming.”
For four years, from 2006 to 2010, I wrote regular columns for the magazine about unscripted TV—its shows and its practices.
- The sound and the fury / 10.10
- Is summer still reality’s season in the sun? / 5.10
- Hard Work and Hard Words / 3.10
- A salute to a Survivor / 1.10
- Falling back down to Earth / 12.09
- Daring to be different [Sundance Channel’s Brick City] / 9.09
- America’s next integration model / 5.09
- Wither the [fourth] wall? / 3.09
- Recession reality / 1.09
- Building a better mousetrap [behind the scenes of a Survivor challenge] / 11.08
- Stand-ins [Can producers successfully take over another prodco’s formats?] / 9.08
- Time for change [new TV viewing habits] / 6.08
- The Hills have lies [manipulated reality TV] / 12.07
- Yesterday’s outrage [viewers’ connection to programs they hate] / 1.08
- The voice of God [reality TV narration] / 10.07
- When reality gets too real / 7.07
- When good ideas go bad / 4.07
- Oh, snap! [reality TV stars who become successful] / 1.07
- From pen to sword [the job of story producers] / 11.06
- Hosts with the most / 10.06
- Culture Clash [Emmy categories] / 9.06
- Stop Faking Reality / 6.06
