"Television is a goddamned amusement park."
It was an ugly moment. It was the kind of moment that, however quickly it passed by, you knew instantly that it would stir controversy thanks to the unfortunate truth it uncovered. And it has, deservedly so. On last night’s Season Four premiere of HBO’s Project Greenlight, the judging panel tasked with selecting the right …
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The original Project Greenlight‘s 3-year run was an intriguing idea for a competitive reality series that, despite copious amounts of drama, never really took hold as anything other than documentation of completely uninteresting failures. The original structure of the series was flawed from Day One: finding a decent screenplay among thousands of submissions written by someone who …
HBO announced recently that it is officially reviving its early 2000s reality show Project Greenlight. Executive produced by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, the series first aired on HBO in late 2001 (later moving to Bravo for its third season) and initially provided a single screenplay contest winner the opportunity to direct his/her own work. Subsequent seasons …