An interview with College Behind Bars director Lynn Novick and producer Sarah Botstein about their four-part series, which goes into prisons to follow students in the Bard Prison Initiative.
Interviews with reality TV show producers, cast members, and television executives about how shows are produced, what happened on certain episodes or seasons, and what's fake and what's real.
Is Kings of Pain science or stupidity? An interview with a History Channel executive
An interview with a History Channel executive about Kings of Pain, on which two men are bitten and stung to see how much it hurts.
How America’s Got Talent auditions work, from open calls to recruiting acts
An interview with America’s Got Talent producer Adam Davis about how the audition process works, why he recruits acts online, and more.
Bear Grylls on staging dead animals and Running Wild’s move to NatGeo
Bear Grylls talks about the move of his show from NBC to National Geographic Channel for season 5, and also about how much of the show is planned, staged, and/or fake.
How an engineer found his way to exploring cities that haven’t been touched for thousands of years
An interview with Albert Lin about his new NatGeo show, Lost Cities with Albert Lin, and how he found his way to exploring.
Gold Rush’s The Dirt will return with host Christo Doyle, but will now be an aftershow
Exclusive: Gold Rush season 10 will include the return of The Dirt, and Christo Doyle will return to host. An interview with him about The Dirt and Gold Rush.
How Queer Eye’s editors work together to ‘help the audience connect with the hero’
Three of Queer Eye’s Emmy-winning (and once again Emmy-nominated) editors discuss their process of taking raw footage of the Fab Five and turning it into episodes for Netflix.
Lt. Joe Kenda on Homicide Hunter’s end, how the show is produced, and what’s next
An interview with Joe Kenda about his long-running Investigation Discovery show, how it’s helped him, and how Homicide Hunter even saved lives.
Black Love creators Codie and Tommy Oliver on marriage, representation, and working together
Codie and Tommy Oliver talk about how they created and produce OWN’s hit series Black Love—and what they’ve learned about relationships.
How Chasing the Cure will try to solve medical mysteries, live
“They’re not celebrities. They’re not reality stars at all. We’re meeting people where they are.” An interview with the showrunner of TNT’s Chasing the Cure, Kim Bondy.
Undercover Billionaire is ‘Naked and Afraid in the business world’: a review and interviews with its producers
Discovery Channel’s new show sends billionaire Glenn Stearns to Erie, Penn., with $100 to see if he can build a $1 million business in three months. But it also tries to argue that you, too, can do the same.
Why Serengeti’s director tried to create the opposite of ‘big spectacle’ nature TV
The creator of American Idol and Pop Idol was inspired to create Serengeti, and its director has spent a lot of time finding ways to creatively film animals.
Gordon Ramsay: Uncharted’s producer, chefs, and network respond to criticism of the show
I interviewed chefs who appeared on Uncharted (“I needed a lot of convincing before I said yes”) and its showrunner (“When viewers tune in to see Gordon Ramsay, they want to see something through Gordon Ramsay’s point of view”).
Why Cajun Navy’s stars and producers hope the doc—about people who save lives—will affect our lives
An interview with the producers and subjects of the new Discovery Channel documentary, which follows the volunteers known as the Cajun Navy.
Robert Irvine on Restaurant: Impossible Revisited, and what’s changed on his show
“There are other restaurant shows out there; they come up with a big truck, spend five days or whatever, they’re never there, they don’t care about the people, it’s TV. To me, it’s not TV, it’s somebody’s life.”