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Deadline’s Reality TV Summit is launching tomorrow pinch nan champion and brightest successful nan unscripted tv industry.
The afloat lineup has been group pinch Andy Cohen kicking things disconnected pinch a keynote Q&A. See nan afloat lineup below, which includes executives from each nan awesome streamers, broadcasters and cablegram networks arsenic good arsenic top-tier talent and producers.
Stephen Colletti, 1 of nan stars of Laguna Beach: Orange County, who precocious starred successful and exec produced Roku’s The Reunion: Laguna Beach, will beryllium joining nan lineup alongside nan streamer’s caput of originals Brian Tannenbaum, while Cori Abraham, SVP, Unscripted Content astatine Versant, which operates cablegram networks including USA, E!, Syfy and Oxygen, has besides been added to nan bill.
Event Date and Time:
Friday, May 1 2026
12:30pm Doors Open
1:00pm Panels Begin
4:15pm Panels Conclude, Reception Begins
If you person RSVPed, your sanction will beryllium connected nan door, we propose getting to nan arena arsenic adjacent to doors arsenic imaginable to guarantee a seat. Unfortunately, nan RSVP database is now closed but location is waitlist.
Location:
Lumen West LA, 3rd Floor Events Deck
11355 W Olympic Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90064
The curated assemblage will dwell of manufacture professionals and FYC voters crossed nan TV Academy and guilds. The thought is to bring together nan champion and nan brightest successful nan business to talk nan early of nan unscripted sector.
Cohen’s keynote comes as The Real Housewives franchise he executive produces celebrates its 20th anniversary. The unscripted franchise, arguably 1 of nan astir successful of each time, has had astir a twelve U.S. iterations, a plethora of world versions and much than 30 spinoffs.
The Emmy victor will discuss RH‘s astir caller launch, The Real Housewives of Rhode Island, which premiered earlier this month; nan business of nan enduring franchise; nan occurrence of Watch What Happens Live!, his late-night show that is nan go-to-destination for reality stars and different A-listers specified arsenic Jon Hamm discussing nan latest Summer House drama; arsenic good arsenic his different ventures specified arsenic Radio Andy.
He will beryllium joined successful nan lineup by nan starring executives from streamers astatine Netflix, Amazon, Hulu and Peacock; broadcast networks including ABC, CBS, Fox and The CW; positive cablegram groups including A+E Global Media and Warner Bros. Discovery.
Executives see Jeff Gaspin, VP, Unscripted astatine Netflix; Amazon’s Head of Unscripted and Documentary Television Jenn Levy; Rob Mills, EVP, Unscripted and Alternative Entertainment astatine Walt Disney Television; Mitch Graham, EVP, Alternative Programming astatine CBS; Rachel Smith, EVP, Unscripted Content, Bravo and Peacock and Allison Wallach, Head of Unscripted Programming astatine Fox Entertainment Studios.
Others to beryllium featured are Jason Sarlanis, President of TNT, TBS, TruTV, ID & HLN, Linear and Streaming astatine Warner Bros. Discovery; Heather Olander, Head of Unscripted Programming astatine The CW, Eli Lehrer, EVP and Head of Programming astatine The History Channel and Cori Abraham, SVP, Development, Unscripted Content astatine Versant.
There will besides beryllium stars from apical shows including Joel McHale, who hosts Fox crippled show The 1% Club; Jay Pharoah, big of Fox’s The Quiz With Balls; Kristen Kish, who hosts Bravo’s Top Chef, and Stephen Colletti, prima of Roku’s The Reunion: Laguna Beach.
Producers down immoderate of nan biggest unscripted bid connected tv and streaming will besides subordinate to talk nan highs and lows of making reality shows.
Among nan panels will beryllium a attraction connected “How to Have a Hit Reality Series,” pinch Alex Baskin, who runs Vanderpump Rules producer 32 Flavors; Jeff Jenkins, president of Jeff Jenkins Productions, nan institution down Hulu’s The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives; Carlos King, laminitis of Kingdom Reign Entertainment, which is down the Love & Marriage franchise; Julie Pizzi, president and CEO of Bunim/Murray Productions, which makes Below Deck and Vanderpump Villa; and Steven Weinstock, co-president and CEO of Summer House producer Truly Original.
Looking astatine nan authorities of making love shows, nan sheet “Love connected Television” will characteristic David Eilenberg, imaginative head of Love Island USA producer ITV America, Jazzy Collins, laminitis of Forced Perspective, who has formed shows including The Bachelor; Jennifer O’Connell, co-founder and co-CEO of Velvet Hammer Media, which is down Netflix’s Age of Attraction; and SallyAnn Salsano, laminitis of Jersey Shore producer 495 Productions, which is down Fox’s The Snake.
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