Do I have to be an established producer to pitch a reality show?
If you're a person out in America - or in the world - who aspires to be a reality television show producer, and you feel like you have a good idea for a reality show, I must be absolutely honest with you and say that you have an enormous uphill battle. Most people who sell reality shows are professional reality show producers, who actually are living in LA or New York or one of the big cities in the world of producing, like London and Amsterdam. There are places in the world where these things are done, and most of the work is there, and done by people who live there and are doing this full-time. If you are doing something else, and you think that you're going to ring the bell and hit it big because you have an idea on the side, you are competing with an enormous industry of people who do it full time and think about reality shows 24 hours a day. I don't do anything else. Every day, I get up and try to think of a television show idea. Every day, I produce. Every day, I work my connections in town - getting to know people, going to lunch with people, making them trust me, etc. Everything I do is as a professional television show producer. If you are not a professional television show producer, you have an enormous uphill battle. You are not going to get your phone call answered. You are going to have a hell of a time getting your pitch across, and, if it's a good idea, it is extremely likely that somebody is already working on your reality show idea.
