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The Business of Television, 2nd Edition
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The Business of Television, 2nd Edition

by Ken Basin
September 2024
Intermediate to advanced
644 pages
25h 58m
English
Routledge
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12Unscripted Television

DOI: 10.4324/9781003178095-13

The foregoing chapters all specifically explore the world of scripted television development, production, and licensing. Unscripted television presents a host of unique business and legal issues, which would take an entire separate book to describe in detail.1 However, in the interest of providing a more comprehensive perspective on the television business in general, this chapter highlights a small sample of major dealmaking concepts applicable to unscripted television development, production, and licensing, and in particular, notes several major areas of departure from scripted television norms.

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