Reality TV Survivors

Working on a show that’s a copy of a copy of a copy of a show.

When you get a wild, uncontrollable urge to scream or laugh during room tone.

Being fed interview questions in your ear by the EP during interview.

When you have better credits than your EP.

Treating yourself to a spa day after a shoot that aged you 10 years.

When they were too cheap to spring for a minivan and you hear the EP asking a PA to drive his own car for driving shots -- on the wrong side of the road.

When you didn’t even know they were rolling and you walk right into the shot.

Trying to transition from reality TV to scripted.

When creative makes a meaningless change and/or forgets something that causes your Production team to stay up all night, and work through their days off to accomplish. Then they take all the credit and give you a “Great. Thanks.”

When you leave a terrible production.

When the shoot starts and you start seriously re-thinking the rate you accepted.

“There are honest production companies out there who treat their people well...”

When someone you thought liked you gives a shit reference.