From the team behind the world’s biggest and best non-fiction entertainment conference, The Realscreen Summit, and the world’s foremost authority on non-fiction, realscreen magazine, comes the Factual Entertainment Forum: The Real Deal.

This exciting new event is a reality-centric full-day conference to be held on Wednesday, May 20^th in Santa Monica. FEF: The Real Deal will bring together broadcast and cable executives, producers, agents and other stakeholders in the reality TV/factual entertainment industry for a day of inspiration, discussion about the current state of reality TV and where it’s going, and of course, networking.

TOP EXECUTIVES FROM THE PRODUCTION, NETWORK AND CABLE WORLDS ARE CONVERGING ON REALSCREEN'S FACTUAL ENTERTAINMENT FORUM: THE REAL DEAL

Jonathan Murray will be taking part in the Reinventing the Real panel, which will examine how hit reality shows such as The Real World (now into its 22nd season!) stay fresh while not straying from the brand's unique DNA. Howard T. Owens will be part of our star-studded Reality Roundtable, in which top execs will discuss the current state of Reality TV and its future, and Gary Auerbach, part of the team that brought us the smash docusoap Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County, will contribute to Real Innovation. This panel, also featuring Original Productions' CEO/Executive Producer Thom Beers and Gena McCarthy, SVP Development and Production for Discovery Channel, among others, will bring together producers and broadcasters who have taken, and are still taking chances on new forms of reality programming.