Greenlit: Filmography
Greenlit: Developing Factual/Reality TV Ideas From Concept to Pitch – Filmography
Greenlit: Developing Factual/Reality TV Ideas from Concept to Pitch reveals how to get an idea for a documentary or non-fiction/reality television series such as Touching the Void, The Apprentice or Supernanny from concept to commission and explains why having a great idea is not enough. Candid interviews with fifty top industry insiders – including international producers and buyers – reveal how globally successful shows were originally conceived and pitched; their war stories are in turns cautionary, entertaining and inspiring. Each chapter is stuffed with case studies, practical tips, resource lists, sample proposals and exercises designed to boost your skills and help you develop your own commission-winning ideas. Read it straight through for a master class in development and commissioning, or dip in to specific chapters when you need a refresher. Read this book to ensure your documentary or TV proposal is the one in one hundred that gets noticed.
Here is an alphabetical list of all the TV series, documentaries and strands mentioned and discussed in the book. Key case studies are in bold. Where possible, a link has been provided to each programme’s own page, but in some instances there is no page currently available, in which case I’ve provided a link to an alternative source of information about the show.
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3 Minute Wonder
9/11: Telephone Calls from the Twin Towers
10 Years Younger
16 Children and Moving In
30 Days
102 Minutes that Changed America
1900 House
1940s House
1000 Ways to Die
A-C
Abused
Ace of Cakes
Addicted to Beauty
African ER
Airport
American Chopper
American Idol
America’s Next Top Model
An American Family
Andrew Marr’s History of Modern Britain
Animals in The Womb
Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader? / Are You Smarter than a 10 Year Old?
Armed and Dangerous
Auschwitz
Ax Men
Bad Girls Club
Bad Lads’ Army
Beauty and the Geek
Big Brother
Black.White
Blast!
Blood on the Carpet
Blue Planet
Born Survivor
Bowling for Columbine
Bridezillas
Britain’s Got Talent
Britain’s Got More Talent
Britain’s Missing Top Model
Brits Behind Bars
Capturing the Friedmans
Century of the Self
Come Dancing
D-F
Dance Your Ass Off
Dancing with the Stars
Danny Dyer’s Deadliest Men
Deadliest Catch
Deadliest Warrior
Disorder in the Court
Dispatches
Dog Borstal
Dog the Bounty Hunter
Dirty Jobs
Dragons’ Den / Shark Tank
Driving Me Mad
Driving School
Earth: Power of the Planet
Eco-Challenge
Escape to the Legion
Expedition Week
Explorations
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
Fahrenheit 9/11
Falklands: The Islanders’ War
Faking It
Fear Factor
Fight for Life
Floyd on Fish
Forensic Files
Four Weddings
Frontier House
Fuck Off I’m Fat
G-I
Gladiators
Graham Norton
Grand Designs
Ground Force
Hell’s Kitchen
High School Boot Camp
Hiroshima
Home Video Heroes
Horizon
How Clean is Your House?
How to Look Good Naked
How to Re-Establish a Vodka Empire
How to Start Your Own Country
Human Body: Pushing the Limits
Ice Road Truckers
I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here!
Inside American Jail
Inside 9/11
Intangible Asset Number 82
Intervention
Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers
Iron Chef
J-L
Jackass
Jade
Jamie’s School Dinners
The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency
Jesse James is a Dead Man
Jimmy’s Farm
Jimmy’s Farming Heroes
Joe Millionaire
Journeys From the Centre of the Earth
Journeys into the Ring of Fire
Kill It, Cook It, Eat It
Launch My Line
Little People, Big World
Location, Location, Location
M-O
MacIntyre: World’s Toughest Towns
Made in Britain
Man on Wire
Man Vs. Wild
March of the Penguins
Mary Queen of Shops
Meet the Natives
Miracle of the Hudson Plane Crash
Most Haunted
Murderball
My Big Breasts and Me
My Brilliant Britain
Mythbusters
Naked Science
NY77: The Coolest Year in Hell
Obsessed
Operation Repo
Oz and James’s Big Wine Adventure
P-R
Passionate Eye
Planet Earth
POV
Project Runway
Property Ladder
Pros vs. Joes
Queer Eye for the Straight Guy
Ramsey’s Kitchen Nightmares
Real Housewives of New York City
Real Vice Cops Uncut
Rick Stein’s French Odyssey
Robot Wars
Rock School
Ross Kemp on Gangs
S-U
Scientific American Frontiers
Sexcetera
Shark Week
Simon Rimmer’s Dinners
Simon Schama’s Power of Art
Sin Cities
Snapped
Spaced
Space Race
Springwatch
Spy in the Den
Spy in the Herd
Strictly Come Dancing
Supernanny
Supersize Me
Supervolcano
Surviving Disaster
Survivor
Sylvania Waters
Take One Museum
Tales from the Palaces
Tattoo Highway
The Age of Stupid
The Amazing Race
The Apprentice
The Bachelor
The Bank of Mum and Dad
The Biggest Loser
The Boy Whose Skin Fell Off
The Detonators
The Doctors
The Dog Whisperer
The End of the Line
The Falling Man
The Family
The Fast and The Gorgeous
The Guinea Pig Club
The Human Body
The Naked Chef
The Naked Pilgrim
The Osbournes
The People Speak
The Real Football Factories
The Real Little Britain
The Real World
The Restaurant
The Secret Life of Machines
The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive
The September Issue
The Speaker
The TV Book Club
The War Room
The X Factor
Time Team
Tim Gunn’s Guide to Style
Top Chef
Total Wipeout
Touching the Void
Trading Spaces
Trauma: Life in the ER
Tribe/Going Tribal
Troubleshooter
Tsunami: Caught on Camera
V-Z
Verminators
Voyages of Discovery
Walking with Dinosaurs
Watch What Happens: Live
Waltz with Bashir
Weapon Masters
What Not to Wear
When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions
Who Wants to be a Millionaire?
Who Wants to be a Superhero?
Wife Swap
Wonderland
You Are What You Eat
Let me know if you find any dead links or omissions.
See also Greenlit: Recommended Resources
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