RonSupportsYouMark Burnett created the television show #TheApprentice, a show pretending that Donald Trump was a successful businessman. Many people who watched #TheApprentice liked Trump so much that Trump was elected president. A grateful Donald Trump appointed Burnett as the United States Special Envoy to the United Kingdom. Surprise: Mark Burnett was an illegal alien! As a visitor to the US, without a green card, Burnett decided to stay. Illegally. Source: #CueTheSun, a book I am reading this week.
#CueTheSun, a book by Emily Nussbaum about #RealityTV, had these fun facts: Chuck Barris was a pioneer who created game shows such as #TheGongShow, described as "a talent contest for the talent free." Also #TheDatingGame where a woman asked questions of 3 men she didn't see, and then picked one for a date. Before they were famous, Steve Martin and Farrah Fawcett were two of the contestants. His #NewlywedGame lasted for more than four decades. #television
DeadlineEmily Nussbaum’s ‘Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV’ In The Works As Docuseries With Topic Studios
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Emily Nussbaum’s ‘Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV’ In The Works As Docuseries With Topic Studios
EXCLUSIVE: Topic Studios, the company behind films including Spencer and Spotlight, has snapped up the rights to Emily Nussbaum’s Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV. The company is planning to turn Nussbaum’s book, about the origins of reality television, into a docuseries. The book, which was published by Penguin Random House earlier this year, explores […]
João CachadaReading through the Pulitzer Prize winning "Cue the Sun", by Emily Nussbaum, at the moment and reading through the accounts of Donald Trump, talking about a participant in The Apprentice (called Kwame), asking: "Yeah, but would America really buy a (n word) winning?". And Michael Cohen's own account of Trump stating: "There was no way I was going to let this Black (f word) win."
Vote, American friends. For all of our sakes.