The Pitch‘s season premiere actually ended with an off-camera twist, because after filming ended, the company changed their mind and chose the losing agency. The agencies pitched a company familiar to reality TV viewers: College Hunks Hauling Junk, which appeared on season one, episode one of Shark Tank to pitch their new business College Foxes… continue reading
The Pitch
A pitch for you to watch The Pitch
AMC’s The Pitch returns tonight for its second season, and as you can see in the preview below, its first season was critically acclaimed, though only some critics got the names of their publications read aloud in the promo. While it could have devolved into an Undercover Boss-style advertisement, the series focused on both people… continue reading
The Pitch: a gorgeous, insightful reality series worthy of Mad Men
With The Pitch, AMC has a reality series worthy of its scripted television. While it’s not quite a reality TV version of Mad Men, the show offers real-world insight into the process we’ve seen fictionalized on that series, and does so with a similar attention to craft. Each episode follows two agencies who pitch a… continue reading
Unscripted Mad Men, Department of Homeland Security reality shows coming to AMC
AMC, the network best known for exceptional dramas such as Mad Men, The Walking Dead, and, most recently, The Killing, is getting into reality television, which it calls “docu-stories.” Because of AMC’s reputation for extraordinarily high-quality fictional television, I think this is good news for reality TV as a genre, and hope they hold reality… continue reading