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AMC continues to expand its reality footprint by picking up two new unscripted series — Untitled Taxidermy Series and Venice Beach Freakshow (working title). Both series have been picked up for 8 episodes to premiere in first quarter of 2013. They join Kevin Smith’s Comic Book Men and Talking Dead, which have been renewed for second seasons, and the network’s most recent unscripted series, Small Town Security, now on the air. Additionally, AMC announced that The Pitch, its unscripted series chronicling advertising agencies as they prepare campaigns to try and win a major new account, which recently finished its freshman run, is being picked up for a second cycle. While the focus has been on AMC’s strong scripted lineup, the cable network for the past couple of years quietly has been building a reality roster and actually has more unscripted than scripted series at its disposal right now.
The Taxidermy Series, from Go Go Luckey Entertainment (Laguna Beach), is a hosted competition featuring different contestants each week who create an ultimate piece of artwork showcasing the craft of taxidermy. Gary Auerbach, Julie Auerbach, Tina Gazzerro, and Henry Capanna executive produce. This marks the fourth taxidermy TV series to get a green light in the past year following such shows on Discovery, History and Animal Planet.
Venice Beach Freakshow is a family drama that centers on former music producer Todd Ray as he pursues his dream to own and operate his own ‘Freakshow’ on the famed boardwalk in Venice Beach, CA. The series is executive produced by Todd Ray from Living Wonders and Greg Johnston from Endemol USA.
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Freakshow sounds like a freaking waste of time!!!
Yay, Go Go!!!
Those morons still work?
The ought to combine them and make a show about stuffing Venice beach freaks. THAT I would watch.
Wait to strike while the fire is hot.
Their critical darlings Breaking Bad and Mad Men will be done in 2013 and 2014.
The Walking Dead is entering their 3rd season and is a gigantic success and all they’ve managed to launch with it is the lukewarm Hell on Wheels and cheap to produce late night companion show Talking Dead and Comic Book Men.
The two pilots that will film soon won’t be ready for 1st quarter next year and only one will likely launch with The Walking Dead season four.
Where are the dramas this October and February to launch off The Walking Dead?
Exactly, with an emerging brand image of critical darlings this new line up doesn’t make much sense. How bout a reality show with some integrity and intellect comparable to Push Girls on Sundance – THAT is what I would expect from AMC at this point.
They do have one with integrity and intellect in The Pitch, but the rest are pure crap. The funny thing is that Sundance is a part of AMC Networks. I understand what they are trying to do, but when your reputation is prestige and critical acclaim, you don’t shoot yourself in the foot like this. Just a poorly planned gameplan in my opinion.
The Pitch is amazing. One of the best reality shows ever made. AMC deserves a lot of credit for picking it up.
yes, The Pitch is a very good reality show I must admit, but the rest are terrible and off brand.
The Pitch is their lowest rated show, so it was a surprise that it will be back. I did enjoy it though.
I enjoyed the Pitch very much but it was truly one of most depressingly shot and edited reality show I’ve ever seen. I just wanted to cut my wrists after every episode. That coupled with The Killing made for a very depressing Sunday night.
Whoo-hoo Bartel! Congrats on the pick-up for THE PITCH!!!
I went to that Venice Beach Freakshow. It was kind of lame, sad, and pathetic inside. Definitely didn’t live up to the hype of the pitchman outside.
Look at all of AMC’s unscripted content. Such a vast wasteland of crap. And their answer to that? To add MORE crap.
This network is having lots of problems. They’ve got two huge critical darlings that are both going to end within the next two years. They’ve got a petty dispute going with Dish that is taking a huge chunk out of their ratings. They have had two ugly negotiating conflicts with their two critical darlings that made them what they are, and classlessly fired the showrunner on their biggest hit in terms of ratings. They had a show that started out to critical acclaim and infamously fell off a cliff in The Killing. They have a show in Hell on Wheels that has absolutely no buzz and a huge dip in ratings from last year. And now they are about to have six reality shows in rotation. They better hope to god that these two pilots they are about to film are critically acclaimed with lots of buzz.
Well said Dj
This is the network that cancelled Rubicon and greenlit The Killing. That should say it all. They are morons.
That seems to be when this downward spiral started. Rubicon seemed like it was really about to hit its stride. It was on a lot of critics top ten lists at the end of that year and seemed poised to really break out. How do they give The Killing two seasons and Rubicon only one?
I liked “Rubicon” but the ratings weren’t very good and it never managed to win “Mad Men” or “Breaking Bad” levels of acclaim/buzz. “The Killing” did better in the ratings department.
When will we get a show that combines taxidermy with cake making? I can think of nothing better than massive thousand dollar cakes topped with stunning works of taxidermy. I think it’s time to trademark Cake Critters ™.
This taxidermy show immortalized will fit the bill. I promise it is going to be awesome, I am lucky enough to be a taxidermist on it!!