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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…

Two sisters featured on Oxygen’s confrontational reality show Bad Girls Club have filed a lawsuit against the show’s producers and several cast members over a prank that escalated to violence and later aired on the show. Naming production companies Bunim/Murray Productions (spelled”Bunin/Murray” in the filing), Atrium…

E! this morning confirmed it had greenlighted Rob & Chyna, a six-hour docuseries billed as an inside look at Rob Kardashian and Blac Chyna, who recently announced their pregnancy and engagement. Ryan Seacrest Productions and Bunim/Murray Productions  are producing for debut on the NBCU network/Kardashian home later…

Banijay Group’s Bunin/Murray, the reality production company behind such franchises as The Real World, Project Runway and Keeping Up With The Kardashians, has signed an exclusive production deal with Stella Bulochnikov and Brian Sher’s WikkedCat Entertainment. The deal will give BMP exclusive access to WikkedCat's…

Twenty three years after he launched Bunim/Murray Prods. with the late Mary-Ellis Bunim, Jonathan Murray is handing over the reins of the company. Murray is stepping down as chairman of BMP. The move comes exactly five years after Banijay Group bought the unscripted production company, which is a typical period…

The newly formed Non-Fiction Producers Association has added 14 member-companies to its fold, bringing its total membership to 22. The new recruits are Bunim-Murray Productions, Evolution Media, Eyeworks USA, Go Go Luckey Entertainment, GRB Entertainment, High Noon Entertainment, Lighthearted Entertainment, LMNO Produc…