Produced: How Reality TV Really Gets Made

“On a scale of 1 to 10 of how hard it is to produce, Housewives is an 11.” Twenty years after The Real Housewives of Orange County launched the franchise that changed reality television, what does it REALLY take to produce Housewives? In the premiere episode of PRODUCED: How Reality TV Really Gets Made, former reality TV producer and executive Ilia Saddler sits down with former RHOC and RHOM showrunner Jack Tarantino to go behind the cameras of Bravo's original Housewives franchise. From the ...

What really happens behind the cameras of your favorite reality TV shows? Meet host Ilia Saddler, a former reality TV producer and television executive whose credits include America's Next Top Model, American Idol, and The Rap Game. Now a reality TV content creator with over 20 million social media views and commentary featured in The New York Times, Ilia brings an insider's perspective and lifelong love of reality television to PRODUCED. In this quick introduction, Ilia shares her background...