Reality Of Reality

Brian Samuels, my good friend and blogger at tvuncovered.com, is back to give you another “what to watch” podcast Covid-19 edition. We have a blast breaking down some recent Netflix shows like Kevin Hart’s doc series and the epic train wreck Love is Blind. Stay for the Hillary deep dive and listen to the end where we hit the mess that is this season’s Shahs of Sunset. Also, stay tuned for part 2 coming soon! Check out Brian’s blog! Follow me on social media: Facebook Instagram Twitter realityofreality.com Receive 10% off your first order of up to 10 hours of video with Transcription Farm services by mentioning the Reality of Reality Podcast.

Five years ago Executive Producer Mary Beth Anderson and her family sold almost everything they owned, packed up their car and hit the road headed toward her next production. They’ve been on the road and on location ever since, filming in cities all across the country  together.  Mary Beth – or MB as everyone knows her – specializes in the home renovation space. She’s produced HGTV’s Brother vs Brother, Restored by the Fords, My Lottery Dream Home, Design Star, and Good Bones. She started her career in 2001 on the TLC breakout hit Trading Spaces as well as a ton of other cable nets and broadcast networks. We get into the off the beaten path her career and family life has taken- its a wild ride! Listen to my podcast episode with Loren Ruch! Follow me on social media: Facebook Instagram Twitter realityofreality.com Receive 10% off your first order of up to 10 hours of video with Transcription Farm services by mentioning the Reality of Reality Podcast.

Jamie Goldstein has had an unconventional path to her job as Vice President of Fishbowl Productions. Fishbowl is Vin DiBona’s company – a TV legend best known for creating America’s Funniest Home Videos back in the late 80’s. Jamie talks about her ambitions including expanding the clip show brand into premium content. She’s also very open about how hard it can be to sell any content – especially when you’re a natural introvert. Learn more about Fishbowl Productions! Follow me on social media: Facebook Instagram Twitter realityofreality.com Receive 10% off your first order of up to 10 hours of video with Transcription Farm services by mentioning the Reality of Reality Podcast.

Producer/Content Creator/Entrepreneur Gayle Gilman is one of those women in this industry I’ve heard a lot about for year but had never met. And I couldn’t have been happier to finally meet her and have the chance to talk to her about her storied career. Gayle’s had three chapters so far in her career – all in unscripted- but all wildly different. Starting off in documentary TV at A&E, then running male skewed programming for Thom Beers and now doing digital content in the young adult realm. We get into all of it and have a great time chatting. Visit Gayle’s website to learn more about Ripple Entertainment! Follow me on social media: Facebook Instagram Twitter realityofreality.com Receive 10% off your first order of up to 10 hours of video with Transcription Farm services by mentioning the Reality of Reality Podcast.

Brian Moylan and Kate Casey are two reality TV experts who I adore. Brian is a brilliant re-cap writer for Vulture and author who co-wrote Erika Jayne’s book and is writing an upcoming book on the history of the Housewives franchise. Kate is the queen of reality TV and host of Reality Life with Kate Casey. We get into Housewives, Shas, Summer house, Vanderpump and Dating Blind on Netflix. Kate spills some good tea on Dorinda and Tinsley and Brian reveals the housewife he hates the most. Follow Brian on Instagram and Twitter. Follow Kate on Instagram and Twitter. Buy Erika Jayne’s book, Pretty Mess on Amazon! Listen to Kate Casey’s podcast, Reality Life With Kate Casey! Check out my previous episodes with Brian Moylan and Kate Casey!   Follow me on social media: Facebook Instagram Twitter realityofreality.com Receive 10% off your first order of up to 10 hours of video with Transcription Farm services by mentioning the Reality of Reality Podcast.  

Jenny Hutt is a popular radio host, TV personality, author and entrepreneur. She hosts the “Just Jenny” radio show every day on SiriusXM Stars, where she talks about everything from pop culture to diet to women’s issues to raising kids. She also started an eyewear company with her sister, which makes her living proof that you can always take a risk and start a second act. We get into how she’s overcome some really tough obstacles in her life, how she deals with difficult callers and how she rebounded when Martha’s Stewart’s daughter decided to up and leave their partnership. Check out Jenny’s website! Check out Jenny’s Instagram! Check out Bunny Eyez! Follow me on social media: Facebook Instagram Twitter realityofreality.com Receive 10% off your first order of up to 10 hours of video with Transcription Farm services by mentioning the Reality of Reality Podcast.

The cousins are BACK on the pod today recapping Oscar night. Sarah Kanter, Miriam Kanter and I are breaking it down: from the best and worst red carpet looks to Janae’s opening number to Eminem to the (surprising) best picture win- we get into it all! There is wine, a lot of laughs and lots of controversial opinions! Follow me on social media: Facebook Instagram Twitter realityofreality.com Receive 10% off your first order of up to 10 hours of video with Transcription Farm services by mentioning the Reality of Reality Podcast.

It’s the Netflix documentary series everyone is talking about: KILLER INSIDE: THE MIND OF AARON HERNANDEZ. I go in-depth with the creator and director Geno McDermott. Geno founded the production company Blackfin – based in New York City -and when his company was bought by E-One this past fall, he became the president of alternative programming at E-One. Geno and I talk about how the Hernandez series came to be and dig into the complicated story and many themes it covers. And (spoiler alert!) we do talk about the entire series in some detail. So if you haven’t seen it yet, (run don’t walk) to check it out. Check out the series here! Follow me on social media: Facebook Instagram Twitter realityofreality.com Receive 10% off your first order of up to 10 hours of video with Transcription Farm services by mentioning the Reality of Reality Podcast.

She’s a mover, shaker, former agent turned producer and here to tell us how it all happened! Karrie Wolfe is an EVP and co-Head of Development & Programming at Kinetic Content. She takes us on her journey from small town Indiana to the big city where she became a young agent in the days where life was imitating art (and vice versa) on the HBO show ENTOURAGE. We deep dive on her hit shows MARRIED ON FIRST SIGHT – the origin story – and LITTLE WOMEN – how it went from a crazy internal pitch to a crazy pitch in the room to a hit show with several spin-offs. Check out Kinetic Content’s website here! Kinetic’s new dating show on Netflix, Love Is Blind, premieres Feb 13! Check out the show, Friends Speak, on Reelz! Here is the scene from Monster In Law with our mutual friend Stephanie Turner! Follow me on social media: Facebook Instagram Twitter realityofreality.com Receive 10% off your first order of up to 10 hours of video with Transcription Farm services by mentioning the Reality of

Shane Nickerson went from acting in commercials to producing hundreds of hours of television, parlaying those early years at MTV into huge success. In 2013, he founded Superjacket Productions with former pro-skateboarder Rob Dyrdek, and together they created the massive hit show RIDICULOUSNESS, now in season a million (or something like that

This podcast has it all! Real Housewives, plastic surgery, scandalous affairs, hair pulling, keto muffins and Andrew Yang! Actor, producer, director and Bravo connoisseur Deanna Cheng and I break it all down and yet still run out of time. Enjoy the recap! Follow Deanna on Instagram and Twitter. Follow me on social media: Facebook Instagram Twitter realityofreality.com   Receive 10% off your first order of up to 10 hours of video with Transcription Farm services by mentioning the Reality of Reality Podcast.

Starting off 2020 with a bang! I have a wide ranging conversation about life and politics with Pete Dominick. Pete is a stand up comic, speaker, news commentator, activist, moderator and host of podcast Standup With Pete Dominick. We talk about Pete’s career and how he’s been coping with losing his gig of 12 years. We also have a long conversation about politics, the media, the 2016 and 2020 election and more. This is the first time I’ve had an in-depth conversation about politics on the podcast so whether you agree with what we talk about or not, I hope you’ll embrace the reality of that reality and enjoy my chat with Pete. Check out Pete’s website and his podcast! Follow Pete on Twitter here! Like Pete’s page on Facebook here! Follow me on social media: Facebook Instagram Twitter realityofreality.com

My last podcast for 2019 is a recap of all the great content of the year with my good friend and TV blogger Brian Samuels. We get into all of it: unscripted, scripted, documentaries and doc series. Even the shows that should have never been made (with one major disagreement on that front!). Here’s hoping for more amazing content in 2020. Enjoy! Check out Brian’s blog here– Tvuncovered.com Check out the first episode I did with Brian here– https://tasteofreality.com/brian-samuels/ Follow me on social media: Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/RealityofRealitywithAlizaRosen/ Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/realityaliza/ Twitter- https://twitter.com/realityofreal realityofreality.com

It’s a new company with a great mission! Vital Casting was formed by Rebecca Snavely, Alissa Haight Carlton and Jen DeMartino – three friends and former colleagues from PROJECT RUNWAY who decided to come together to do casting with a socially conscious mission. We talk about their refreshing approach to casting and building a company, how the #metoo movement directly affected their careers and the craziest show they’ve ever been asked to cast. That’s a good one! Visit their website here- https://www.vitalcasting.comYou can find them on Instagram here- https://www.instagram.com/vitalcasting/Learn more about them here- https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/vital-casting-launch-project-runway-1203378113/   Follow me on social media: Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/RealityofRealitywithAlizaRosen/ Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/realityaliza/ Twitter- https://twitter.com/realityofreal realityofreality.com

Daniel Sivan is an award-winning director who recently co-directed the new Netflix series, The Devil Next Door, a five-part documentary series that delves into the legal battles of John Demjanjuk, a retired autoworker in Cleveland accused of being a German-Nazi prison camp guard known as “Ivan the Terrible.” I highly recommend you watch this riveting series if you haven’t seen it. Daniel and I talk about what drew him and his directing partner to the material, what didn’t make it into the series, and whether or not he thinks Demanjuk is indeed “Ivan the Terrible.” You can watch The Devil Next Door here- https://www.netflix.com/title/80201488   Follow me on social media: Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/RealityofRealitywithAlizaRosen/ Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/realityaliza/ Twitter- https://twitter.com/realityofreal realityofreality.com

Rob LaPlante is the co-president of Lighthearted Entertainment – the production company responsible for hits like MTV’s ARE YOU THE ONE and DATING NAKED on VH1. Back in the day, Rob was on the ground floor of casting THE APPRENTICE and getting it off the ground. You can’t really blame him for Donald Trump but you can blame him for giving the world Omarosa – one of the greatest TV villains of all time. Rob and I go deep on the Trump he knew very well, how he found Omorosa and why this past season of ARE YOU THE ONE is one of the most groundbreaking casting stints in reality TV show history. Learn more about Lighthearted Entertainment here- https://lighthearted.com/ Catch up on MTV’s Are You The One? Here- http://www.mtv.com/shows/are-you-the-one Follow Rob on Instagram-https://www.instagram.com/mylaplanet/ Follow Lighthearted Entertainment on Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/lightheartedentertainment/   Follow me on social media: Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/RealityofRealitywit

I had the BEST time talking to Melissa Rivers about literally everything. We cover her career as a producer, writer, entertainment journalist and now host of the new podcast GROUP TEXT. We get into her iconic star turn on CELEBRITY APPRENTICE and what was really going on behind the scenes (and what she thinks happened to that show’s host). We talk about her iconic mother Joan, the documentary on her life and whether we’re see the biopic on her life anytime soon. Plus we get into all the TV we love to watch and what’s going on in this crazy unscripted world right now. Visit Melissa River’s website here- http://melissarivers.com/ Follow her on Twitter (@MelRivers) and Instagram (@melissariversofficial). Check out Melissa’s podcast, Group Text, here- http://melissarivers.com/melissa-rivers-group-text-podcast/ Watch the amazing clip of Melissa on Celebrity Apprentice here! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnNmJ7lKCm0 You can watch the documentary, Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work, here: https://www.amazon.

We mention it ALL on today’s Housewives recap with the brilliant and hilarious Erin Martin. Erin hosts the fabulous podcast Pink Shade with Erin Martin on Taste of Reality (same network as me!) and appears weekly on The Jenny McCarthy Show on Sirius XM. We’re breaking down Jersey, OC and the death march that is Dallas. We also talk about Kelly Dodd’s big news and whether Salt Lake City will work as a new franchise. Enjoy! Check out Erin’s show here- https://tasteofreality.com/pink-shade-with-erin-martin/ Follow me on social media: Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/RealityofRealitywithAlizaRosen/ Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/realityaliza/ Twitter- https://twitter.com/realityofreal   https://RealityofReality.com  

HOUSEWIVES FANS! Get ready. President of Evolution, Alex Baskin, gives us the inside scoop on producing RHOC and RHOBH and answers all your questions. We FINALLY learn when Vicki knew she was being demoted to “friend,” what Shane really thinks about being on the show, which housewife was a big mistake, who did (or didn’t) leak Puppygate and the greatest lengths a housewife has gone to get on a show. ENJOY! Visit Evolution’s Website- http://evolutionusa.com/ RHOC is currently airing its 14th Season- Catch up here! https://www.bravotv.com/the-real-housewives-of-orange-county RHOBH is currently filming its 10th Season- Catch up on last season here! https://www.bravotv.com/the-real-housewives-of-beverly-hills Follow me on social media: Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/RealityofRealitywithAlizaRosen/ Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/realityaliza/ Twitter- https://twitter.com/realityofreal   https://RealityofReality.com

Today’s guest is the head of unscripted for AMC and Sundance and also a good friend. Eliot Goldberg first came on the pod in March of 2018 and talked about how he brought the Kardashians to our TV screens. Today, it’s a more somber conversation about his new compelling documentary series, THE PREPPY MURDER: Death In Central Park, which starts airing simultaneously on AMC and Sundance November 13th at 9pm. It all centers around a horrible case that gripped the country back in the 80’s: the gruesome murder of Jennifer Levin and the infamous “preppy murderer” Robert Chambers. Eliot had a special connection to this case which helped fuel his commitment to getting the story right. The series is a fascinating intersection of true crime and the #metoo movement- more than 30 years after the fact. AMC Preppy Murder https://www.amc.com/shows/the-preppy-murder-death-in-central-park My original interview with Eliot about Kardashians and his career: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/eliot-goldberg-the-r