What’s happening with Starz’s The Chair and its second season? Starz CEO Chris Albrecht gave a brief update about the filmmaking competition.
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Updates on The Chair season two
It’s been more than a year since the first season of Starz’s The Chair ended, but a second season of the DGA-award-winning and TCA-award winning series is at least further along than it was one year ago. But there is some behind-the-scenes progress on season two.
The Chair, The Jinx win TV critics awards
The Television Critics Association has given two TCA awards to unscripted series, The Chair and The Jinx. Also in nonfiction, the award for outstanding achievement in news and information went to HBO’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. The Chair, Starz’s exceptionally crafted documentary series that followed two filmmakers as they produced films from the… continue reading
The Chair winner Shane Dawson comes out as bisexual
Earlier this year, fellow YouTube star and Amazing Race cast member Joey Graceffa came out as gay, and now the winner of Starz’s The Chair and YouTube star Shane Dawson has come out as bisexual via a video. “I always wished that I was gay, just 100 percent gay,” Shane says, “but I’m not, I’m… continue reading
The Chair’s Anthony B. Sacco wins Directors Guild award
Anthony B. Sacco, the director of Starz’s The Chair, has won the Directors Guild Award for outstanding directorial achievement in reality programs. It’s his second win; he previously won for NBC’s Treasure Hunters in 2006, and in was nominated for an episode of Project Runway‘s fourth season in 2007. Sacco won for the ninth episode, which focuses… continue reading
A second season of The Chair seems very possible
The Chair was one of my favorite series of 2014, and there seems to be a chance it could return for a second season. The network, Starz, is “totally open” and its creator, Chris Moore, has promised to go back to Pittsburgh for a second season of the outstanding filmmaking competition reality series. First, in… continue reading
Shane Dawson on winning The Chair, Not Cool critics, Big Brother
Shane Dawson has won The Chair and $250,000, a coda tacked on to the ending of one of the best reality TV series I’ve ever watched. I talked to him about making Not Cool under the scrutiny of reality TV cameras, criticism of his work (including from Zachary Quinto), how fair the competition was considering his millions of followers on social… continue reading
Anna Martemucci on The Chair, directing, collaboration, creativity
Starz’ The Chair comes to an end tomorrow night, with either Anna Martemucci (“Hollidaysburg”) or Shane Dawson (“Not Cool”) winning $250,000. But despite that large prize, the contest has truly been secondary to the reality series’ extraordinary ability to capture the filmmaking process. I talked with Anna last night, and she offered a lot of candid insight about The Chair, its… continue reading
Zachary Quinto’s brutal take-down of Shane Dawson’s movie
On the penultimate episode of The Chair, Zachary Quinto delivered a brutal, withering take-down of Shane Dawson’s movie Not Cool. After screening Anna Martemucci’s film Hollidaysburg, the film and TV show producers talk, and Quinto delivers this monologue: “When we watched Shane’s movie yesterday, I was depressed for a couple of hours at least. I… continue reading
How The Chair is trying to prevent a popularity contest for its $250,000 prize
Besides being an exceptional documentary reality series (and if you are not watching, fix that immediately), Starz’ The Chair also a contest. The two directors, Shane Dawson and Anna Martemucci, are competing for $250,000, and voting is open until 12:59 p.m. Sunday. So how do you have a fair competition between a director with 6,515 YouTube fans and one with 6,223,453? Or… continue reading
The Chair is flawless, riveting reality TV
In the third episode of Starz’s The Chair, one of the two directors using the same script to film a movie says, “If we can’t find locations, if we can’t find actors, if we can’t find crew, then how are we gonna fix this…” He turns to the previously unacknowledged camera filming his rant, looking into the lens… continue reading
Watch The Chair’s films, Not Cool and Hollidaysburg, online now
The films whose creation is currently being documented on Starz’s The Chair have been released in theatres and digitally, so you can now watch how two different filmmakers did with the same script. The five episodes that Starz has made available on demand have made it clear that Shane Dawson and Anna Martemucci are very different people… continue reading