Pitch Secret: Shift Your POV for Pitch Success

Your reality TV pitch can be derailed early on by one giant POV mistake… and so many of you are making it! A huge percentage of the pitches we receive suffer from this misstep. But not your pitches…not after today. Because you are going to… Shift Your POV and Mega-Improve Your Pitches TV has changed pretty drastically in the last 20 years. If you listen to Joke’s advice from episode 1 of this podcast Make Reality TV Shows & Documentary Series with Joke & Biagio, you know your big homework when starting out is to watch TV. Yet so many, many, many aspiring producers continue to pitch us shows that wouldn’t be on TV today (something we hit hard in our ultimate guide to pitching reality TV.) One of the main culprits of this phenomenon is people pitching shows from the wrong POV — and it’s one of the top reasons we instantly discard pitches as not worth considering. However, this will never happen to you — whether you’re pitching to us or any other reality TV production company in Hollywood. Here’s what we cover today: * “Looking At” versus “Living With” * Hosts versus Characters * Shifting your POV to create pitches that get noticed * Understanding how unscripted television works today * What extreme basket weaving has to do with any of this! Hit the giant PLAY button above to learn how to shift your POV when creating and pitching shows, and massively improve your chances for success. Transcript coming soon! Helpful and Related Links Develop Shows without Going Broke — no one needs to end up bankrupt just because they want to make TV. Don’t Pitch These Four Kinds of Shows — never, ever, ever, ever, okay? What TV Networks are Looking For — good to know, right? Cheat sheet to pitch us reality TV shows and documentary series.. Check out our 8 episodes with a clickable table of contents on the Joke and Biagio Youtube channel. Subscribe to Joke and Biagio on Youtube. Seriously, subscribe. Biagio has talked Joke into going on camera. A minor miracle. Come on, you know you want to click this sexy subscribe button: Make Reality TV Shows & Documentary Series With Us! We’ve even put together