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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…

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…

Reality show Utopia created a kind of dystopia for other producers when Fox cancelled it in November after less than two months. The social experiment in building a new society, based on a show from the Netherlands, “was badly cast and executed,” Bunim-Murray Productions chairman Jonathan Murray told the annual NATPE…