A prominent film and television program quotes the statistic to their writing program grads that it will take an average of ten years to get a foothold in their chosen entertainment career. How many years are you willing to give it? Television executive/producer Deborah Spera’s #1 piece of advice for people who come to her about [...]
Who are the movers and shakers of the entertainment industry? You might (or might not) know their names, but you know they make things happen. And, you wonder how they got to be players in the first place, and what exactly they do that is so powerful. Below are the four types of power players. [...]
A love of food and cooking combined with what she felt was her destiny (a career in showbiz, just like her producer parents) led today’s profile subject to a career she loves. The first hurdle was finding out about the existence and role of the food stylist and culinary producer in the world of TV, film, [...]
This piece actually came off of a chain in a Music Industry forum on Linked In. It was in response to someone who wanted to break into the touring side of the music industry. She got a lot of advice, but this is so detailed and smart, such a from-the-trenches story of how to get started, [...]
In today’s post, Kim Peterson, the Coordinator of NBC/Universal’s Campus 2 Career program tells us all about how to distinguish your resume in the tall pile of submissions they receive in order to ultimately land an internship at NBC/Universal or one of the companies they own (Telemundo, anyone?). She also explains what it means to be [...]
It was a big coup for Your Industry Insider to talk with Judith McHale, the longtime head of Discovery Communications who was instrumental in taking them from a 30-person single channel operation into a global media powerhouse. It’s not often you get to hear success strategies from someone who led that kind of monumental growth. [...]
A few months back, Jimmy Kimmel took his late night talk show, “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” to Brooklyn to shoot. During the week they were there, David Letterman was a guest on the show. This was a huge deal. Not only is an appearance by the legendarily reticent Letterman a very rare event, David Letterman was [...]
A few months back, Beyoncé’s agent got a call from the producers of the Super Bowl Halftime Show. The producers wanted to book Beyoncé to headline the show this year. “Over a hundred and fifty million people watch it,” they told the agent. “It’s the biggest exposure you can have on television today.” The agent [...]
People who are not stand-up comics often wonder what compels someone to get up onstage with nothing but some tattered notecards and a microphone, subjecting themselves to judgement, hecklers, and the whims of a server trying to collect for the two-drink minimum during the comic’s awesome closing joke. Today’s guest post is a seasoned comic, though still in [...]
Today’s profile subject came to my attention through a very thoughtful piece he did on entertainment trade site, The Wrap. In it, he mentioned being from a one stop-light town and having over 40,000 Twitter followers. The juxtaposition of those two tidbits, small town kid comes to the big city and makes a splash on [...]
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