Unscripted and Unprepared: A Realscreen Podcast

After receiving his Legacy Award at Realscreen Summit '18, co-founder of Bunim/Murray and Television Academy Hall of Famer Jonathan Murray sat down with Jimmy to discuss the greatest hits: Real World, Simple Life, Project Runway, Keeping up with the Kardashians, WWE Total Divas, Born This Way and Ball in the Family.  Twitter: @IamJimmyFox / @Realscreen

Just in time for the Holidays, Jimmy is joined by friend and Emmy-winnnig producer Mike Duffy of Ugly Brother Studios. Mike discusses the trials of running a start-up production company with his twin brother in today's climate. Plus, Mike shares some hilarious anecdotes from various stops along his career path including brushes with Bill Cosby, Ben Silverman, DMX and Michael Buble! Twitter: @IamJi...

Two months into his new position overseeing programming at HISTORY, Eli Lehrer sits down with Jimmy to talk through the various stops along his career path. Starting out as an assistant to high profile personalities George Stephanopoulos and Michael Ovitz, Eli would then move to the network side where he would grow to become one of the most seasoned executives in the unscripted game with stops at...

In a span of 30 hours, Jonathan Koch, the succesful co-founder of Asylum Entertainment went from the top of his game, to the precipice of death. In this special episode Jimmy, along with Matt Shanfield and Ben Bitoni of Asylum, relive Jonathan's incredible story that all took place during one fateful trip to Realscreen Summit in Washington D.C. Twitter: @IamJimmyFox / @Realscreen

Thom Beers, the man behind iconic hit series such as Deadliest Catch, Ice Road Truckers, Ax Men, Storage Wars, Monster Garage and Bering Sea Gold sits down with Jimmy to cover his storied career! Twitter: @IamJimmyFox / @realscreen      

Jimmy sits down with the fantastic Jennifer O'Connell! The two discuss topics such as the art of the "pass", the need for celebrity packagaing in today's cutthroat world of selling and how Bethenny Frankel changed talent deals forever. Twitter: @IAmJimmyFox / @Realscreen

Jimmy sits down with "The Godfather" of unscripted packaging, Mark Itkin. The two discuss his storied career and various stops along the way including the packaging of The Real World, American Gladiators and Tyler Perry's television dominance. Plus, Mark relives his experiences during the famous William Morris/Endeavor merger. Twitter: @IAmJimmyFox / @Realscreen  

Jane Latman who oversees development for THREE Discovery cable networks sits down with Jimmy to discuss what it is like programming some of the darkest shows in the reality biz! Twitter: @IAmJimmyFox / @Realscreen  

Reinout Oerlemans has an amazing story! Starting out as a soap opera star in his native Netherlands, he would go on to host that country's versions of American Idol and Dancing with the Stars before founding his own production company Eyeworks. That company would grow to become one of the most valuable international forces in our business, eventually selling to Warner Brothers for 273 MILLION. In...

Recorded live from the 2017 Realscreen Summit in Washington D.C., Jimmy sits down with Eliot Goldberg. Eliot discusses what it was like growing up as one of the only liberal families in New Canaan, Connecticut. His early days working in news production, the unlikely celebrity who helped him land his first production assistant job in Hollywood, opening up Ryan Seacrest Productions where he sold Kee...

Ben Silverman, the Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning show creator and media executive, is Chairman and Co-CEO of Propagate Content. In this revealing sitdown with Jimmy, Ben discusses his storied career including: his days of working for TV legend Brandon Tartikoff, selling "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" as a young agent, founding Reveille where he executive produced such shows as "Biggest Lose...

The extremely smart & delightful Heather Olander joins the show! But first, in response to a listener's tweet, Jimmy addresses a concern within the unscripted business. Twitter: @realscreen / @iamjimmyfox

Vinnie Malhotra joined Showtime earlier this year after having launched CNN Films. Before working at the news network, Vinnie was a member of the ESPN team that developed the highly successful "30 for 30" franchise. Jimmy and him discuss the competition among premium cable players when hunting for the next great documentary... they also talk one of Jimmy's favorite subjects - sports!

Sharon Levy has guided the Spike network through multiple brand incarnations. From the days of MANswers and 1,000 Ways to Die, to today where they find themselves broadening their audience with breakout hits like Lip Sync Battle and Ink Master. Jimmy sits down with Sharon to discuss the road leading to Spike, her plans to make the network a bona fide player in the scripted genre and their mutual c...

Jimmy sits down with one of his all-time producing heroes, Leslie Greif. A man who has worked with the likes of Kevin Costner, Gene Simmons, Burt Reynolds, Rodney Dangerfield, Don Johnson, Chuck Norris and a host of others. Between unscripted success stories like Gene Simmons Family Jewels and record-breaking hits like Hatfields & McCoys, Leslie has a wealth of knowledge (and fantastic stories) to...

Apprentice, Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader, Shark Tank, The Voice... David Eilenberg has worked on some of the biggest shows in the business. Now, he finds himself in a new role as President of ITV Entertainment. Jimmy and him discuss his days at Harvard writing for National Lampoon, running development for Mark Burnett, the pros and cons of being a network executive versus a producer, and thei...

Few producers in the unscripted business have a list of credits as diverse as Barry Poznick, President, Unscripted Television, MGM. He and Jimmy discuss his recent move over to MGM, his unique relationship with Joan Rivers, discovering Chelsea Handler and why he has his wife to thank for the creation of Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader. @realscreen / @iamjimmyfox