Platinum Hit is a reality competition series on Bravo launched in 2011 in which 12 singer-songwriters compete through innovative songwriting challenges that will test their creativity, patience and drive. The series was created and produced by Evan Bogart. Every episode features a different topic from a dance track to a love ballad, that require the contestants to write and perform lyrics from a multiple of genres, for a cash prize of $100,000, a publishing deal with songwriting collective The Writing Camp, and a recording deal with RCA/Jive label. The title was won by Sonyae Elise.
The show was originally to be entitled Hitmakers and was later changed to Going Platinum before settling on its present title.
A married couple who own and operate a cake studio in Austin known for intricate and detailed creations are followed in this reality series, which examines what it takes to make their business and relationship a sweet success.
Nail Files is a reality television series that premiere on TV Guide Network in June 2011.
Nail Files is created by the creators of Jersey Shore, and follows Katie Cazorla, who owns a popular Sherman Oaks salon, The Painted Nail, while juggling her relationship with Walter Afanasieff, a Grammy award-winning music producer.
The series follows Cazorla as she aspires to take The Painted Nail to the next level. With the support of Walter and her best friend Amy, Cazorla hosts gifting suites at the Sundance Film Festival and The Academy Awards, walks the red carpet at the Grammy Awards, launches her Spring line of polishes, and handles her celebrity clients all while placating her trouble-making staff.
Nail Files returns for a second season on Sunday, August 19, 9/8C.
Follow the US tour of the Obama portraits, behind-the-scenes at museums in Chicago, Brooklyn, Los Angeles, Atlanta, and Houston, with Barack and Michelle Obama, artists Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald, and everyday people finding hope in these works of art.
The Job is an American reality-competition television series that aired on CBS from February 8 to February 15, 2013 at 8:00 pm Eastern/7:00 pm Central. Hosted by Lisa Ling, the series featured contestants competing in various challenges for a chance to win "a dream job at their dream company".
A pilot order for The Job was placed in March 2012 and the series was picked up in May for an expected midseason debut. Michael Davies and Mark Burnett served as executive producers. The series was canceled after two episodes aired.
Julia Child prepares iconic dishes from the States with the help of chefs from premiere restaurants around the country who share their techniques and specialties, wine experts who offer selections to pair with the evening's dinner.
Chainsaw Gang is a reality TV show that features Stacy Poitras – one of the country's top chainsaw artists – and his crew as they create works of art from logs and other large blocks of wood. The trials and tribulations of the crew portrays everyday dangers and irritations of the trade, including blades breaking and chainsaws bursting into flame, near-finished sculptures splitting open from an unseen issue in the wood, and customers who change their mind about what they want after the work is done.
Chainsaw Gang debuted on November 9, 2012 as part of an initial 10 show series
The series is principally filmed at Poitras' business, Deadwood Tree Sculptures in Malibu, California and other locations where the crew may be carving as demonstrations.
Behind their picket-fences they appear the picture of absolute perfection, but when the sugary façade begins to crack, down come the walls of their country club fairytales. From salacious affairs, to nasty divorces, the grass isn't always greener on the other side.
An unscripted chronicle of comedian Brody Stevens whose behavior is bizarre even before he goes off his psychiatrist-prescribed medications and things get even weirder.