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Applications are now being accepted for a career initiative to provide traditionally unrepresented groups with a pathway to behind the scenes skills and jobs. Late last year, the Handy Foundation was awarded the Pilot Career Pathways Training Program by the California Film Commission. Breaking down…

EXCLUSIVE: Bow Wow wants to help divorcees find love. BET is launching After Happily Ever After, a new dating series from Bunim/Murray Prods that’s planned for this fall. Hosted by Bow Wow, the unscripted show will ask exes from a divorce or separation to play matchmaker for their former partners to help them move on…

EXCLUSIVE: Bunim/Murray Productions, the Emmy-winning reality production company which recently launched Lizzo's Watch Out For The Big Girrrls on Amazon Prime, Don't Forget The Lyrics on Fox and is bringing its hit franchise The Challenge to CBS this summer, is bolstering its development and current programming teams…

The Real World and Keeping Up With The Kardashians producer Bunim/Murray is behind a comedy competition series for social media site Reddit. It marks the aggregator and discussion board firm's first move into live original content. Reddit, which is one of the most visited websites in the world, will air daily…

EXCLUSIVE: Bunim/Murray Productions, the company behind series including The Real World: Homecoming and The Challenge: All Stars, has finalized its senior team with a series of executive promotions. This comes after Julie Pizzi was named President in February. Dani Wassel, who has been with the Banijay-owned company…

Julie Pizzi has returned to Bunim/Murray Productions as President. Pizzi, who has worked at the Real World producer on and off for a number of years, follows the departure of CEO Gil Goldschein, who stepped down in November. Reporting to Cris Abrego, who was promoted to boss of owner Banijay across the U.S. and Latin…

The rise of short-form mobile content and how to meet the younger millennial generation head-on was a topic that was front and center at the INTV Tuesday session The Rise of Short-Form Storytelling. For evolving social media platform Snapchat, short-form content is a means to simply meeting the most immediate demand…

If you’re craving more antics and adventures from wrestling power couple Mike "The Miz" Mizanin and Maryse Mizanin, you’re in luck. WWE said Tuesday night on Smackdown Live that USA Network has ordered an additional 14 episodes of the upcoming reality series Miz & Mrs to air in 2019. The first six episodes of Miz & Mrs…

Banijay International is launching youth prank show Gotcha at Mipcom next week. The series is a co–production from Billy Crystal and his Jennilind Productions, Bunim/Murray Productions and Israel’s Nutz Productions. Gotcha will also serve as the official launch for Bunim/Murray's kids division, BMP Kids, led by Emmy…

Winning the Emmy last year for Outstanding Unstructured Reality Program, Born This Way represents the very best of what’s possible in reality television today. From Jonathan Murray of Bunim/Murray Productions—a reality TV pioneer who started out with 1992’s landmark series The Real World—Born This Way examines the…

Keeping Up With The Kardashians producer Bunim/Murray Productions and former Zodiak USA CEO and Chief Creative Officer Joel Karsberg have inked an exclusive pod deal for Karsberg’s new outfit Kreativ Inc. The new pact comes after the two teamed already on the new series MTV Undressed, a reality dating show that…

Quick, Americans, name a retired soccer legend. To the large number of you who said “Pelé” — olé. He and his manager Paul “PK” Kemsley are teaming with Bunim/Murray Productions for a scripted limited series based on the Brazilian fútbol diety’s life. The untitled program will focus on his life in New York while…