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Unscripted Television
The foregoing chapters of this book 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. (In fact, several such texts exist.) 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 major areas of departure from scripted television norms.
For clarity, “unscripted television” (sometimes used interchangeably with “reality ...
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