TV Guide Channel Will Find America’s Next Top Producer
Following in the footsteps of all the other networks, TV Guide Channel is making its own entry in the reality TV game. The show they are creating will be called America’s Next Top Producer and the contestants will compete for impressive prizes.
“America’s Next Top Producer” will “give viewers a window on the world of some of the things a producer does,” said Dan Cutforth, co-founder of Magical Elves and co-exec producer of the series with Jane Lipsitz and Richard Bye. Casey Kriley is supervising producer.
Cutforth said the challenges his staff cooks up for the contestants will parallel what’s become the norm in the business these days. “Almost every network tests new scripted ideas in low-budget ways,” he said. “Network executives will say to a writer, ‘We’ll give you $20,000 to spend on showing us your characters in a three-minute tape.’ “
Each rival for the crown of “America’s Next Top Producer” will be asked to put together a three-minute sales tape on the scope of the show that contestant has in mind, Cutforth said. All programming genres are fair game, from dramas and comedies to reality shows and gameshows. The judges will grade contestants on how compelling they can make these no-frills presentations.
The top prize consists of $100,000 in cash, a production office in Hollywood and a first-look deal with TV Guide Channel.
But the contestants will have to earn it the hard way: They’ll live together under one roof in the expectation that, as TV Guide puts it, “tempers will flare.”
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