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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 […]
The book, which was published by Penguin Random House earlier this year, explores the tricksters, innovators and stars who invented the genre; its transformation from a few scrappy experiments into a huge industry; and the morally charged, liberating, sometimes tragic consequences of trying to extract something real from something fake. Nussbaum, a staff writer at The New Yorker, writes about Candid Camera, An American Family, America’sFunniest Home Videos, Cops, The Real World, Survivor, Big Brother, The Bachelor and Joe Millionaire and covers the likes of the icy Allen Funt to the shambolic Chuck Barris, Cops auteur John Langley; cynical Bachelor ringmaster Mike Fleiss; and Jon Murray and Mary-Ellis Bunim, the folks behind The Real World. It is Nussbaum’s latest book, having previously written I Like To Watch: Arguing My Way Through The TV Revolution.
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