Mon, 18 July 2016
Heather gets a TV show but it’s gonna end after this season and she gets trolled on Instagram. J. Elvis Weinstein has lunch with a crime reporter. Mark officiates at the wedding of Dateline NBC’s Josh Mankiewicz and The New York Times gets a key detail about the whole thing wrong. Then it’s fun stories from REALITY TELEVISION with a REALITY TV PRODUCING KING, Cris Abrego. Cris is recognized globally as pioneering a new genre of unscripted programming with the breakout celebreality series The Surreal Life and for riding herd over the mega-hits BIG BROTHER, BIGGEST LOSER, MASTER CHEF and many more. He is co-CEO of Endemol Shine North America. But has great stories of the beginnings of reality TV from his days on MTV’S ROAD RULES and THE REAL WORLD. Cris Abrego's rise from the working class LA suburb of El Monte, California to become prominent in the Television industry is nothing short of amazing. In his book MAKE IT REALITY, Chris offers up lessons he learned from almost twenty years in Television—How to visualize your goals and attain them, dealing with risks and having no limits on what can be achieved. Mark Thompson, Heather Ankeny and J.Elvis Weinstein join in for the entire episode |