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NBC has signed overall deals with five established producers: Jason Ehrlich (ABC’s The Bachelor), David A. Hurwitz (NBC’s Fear Factor), Alex Katz (NBC’s The Biggest Loser) and Lee Metzger (NBC’s The Voice). They join America’s Got Talent judge Howie Mandel and his Alvey Production Company (Mobbed), Tom Shelly (NBC’s Love In The Wild), former NBC reality head-turned-producer Craig Plestis (NBC’s Minute To Win It) and Jason Raff (NBC’s America’s Got Talent), 
who also have development pacts with the network. “We have stacked the deck and look forward to continuing to work with all of these incredibly talented individuals,” said Paul Telegdy, President, NBC’s president of Alternative and Late Night Programming. Ehrlich, co-executive producer for numerous seasons of The Bachelor as well as The Bachelorette and Bachelor Pad, will be an executive producer alongside Katz and Eva Longoria on NBC’s upcoming relationship show Ready For Love. Hurwitz, who recently served as executive producer on NBC’s Fear Factor reboot, is executive producing with Mark Burnett and Dick Wolf NBC’s upcoming reality series Stars Earn Stripes.
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All white males! I’m a white male, and even I’m offended! Come on NBC, get some color and diversity onto your team. How about more women too while you’re at it?
I know NBC are desperate for some broadcast-network growth but reality series are an incredibly quick-fix overall – very few achieve the length of success seen by Survivor, The Bachelor and Idol. It would be more palatable if they were using the eyeballs gained from reality to spotlight a new wave of scripted programming, but other than Revolution, they haven’t yet picked up anything that could be the next Modern Family/Lost/Greys Anatomy.
On the other hand, very few shows achieve the sort of instant hit status of a “Lost.” Like “Cheers” before it, although more quickly, “Modern Family” took some time to grow, although after this season it might be leveling off. And “Grey’s” earned its place on Thursdays but was certainly helped by “Desperate Housewives” being in its prime.
Your complaint is kind of weird. I mean, quality shows are important, but aside from “The Voice,” it doesn’t have a big reality hit. (‘The Bigger Loser” doesn’t count.) In order to get a reality show to help build up the schedule, it needs to actually order them, which is what it’s doing, in part, by signing these producers.
The key, I think, is to find something–anything–that works. At this point, for NBC, that involves ordering a lot of shows and throwing everything against the wall to see what sticks.
The worst shows on TV. No wonder NBC is in the crapper.
What a mess this network is. Instead of dealing with the reality of their current situaion-they will be putting up more reality programming. There is no way that is going to sustain Nbc in the long-run. Nbc sees other networks with the reality shows & must think-”if you can’t beat em’ join em”. That’s a mistake. They should have had a few multicam comedies thrown into the mix also,instead of more singlecams. Nbc is such a waste .
Depends on how these shows are used, no? I don’t think the key to climbing back to the top is through reality taking over the schedule, but it could be a valuable tool, if used properly. Would anyone here fault NBC for putting an unscripted show on Wednesdays at 8:00, with a new drama at 9:00, if it found a successful one over the summer? That’s pretty much the exact strategy that CBS used to establish itself on Thursdays way back when.
Good to see so many women among the bunch.
This signing by Nbc tells me all I need to know. To me it basically says they are abandoning scripted programming in favor of more reality crap. How they think this will help their last place network I don’t know. Oh sure they’ll throw in a few scripted shows,but,for the most part it seems they are giving up. They should have picked up more multicam comedies.At least they would sound funny & give the appearance Nbc has some life & energy.
Very happy for Ehrlich, Hurwitz, and Katz. All are very talented producers and a pleasure to work with.
8 out of 10 new scripted shows fail, people. The smart move is to lock up any Reality producers with a track record for hits which is what NBC did. Join us in the 21st century – it’s fun here!
Reality TV sux.