He's Producing a Reality Show About a Reality TV School!

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So there's a "New York Reality TV School" founded by Robert Galinsky to help people actually get ONTO their favorite reality shows.

And President of Merv Griffin Television Roy Bank (C'94) is in final talks to create a reality show out of this.

Per Portfolio.com,

"The series will begin by following him [Galinsky] as he works to expand the school from the fly-by-night operation it now is into an internationally-franchised operation. "We are going to move from a mom and pop shop to a full-blown business," he says.

Like many reality series, it will have an elimination-style format, although Galinsky says he would like to have multiple winners to encourage the formation of alliances. The prizes, he says, will include "both first-look auditions on current shows and a full pilot production produced by Merv Griffin."

And this cracks me up...Galinksy is quoted as calling the show "an uber-meta-circular-clusterfuck of camera seducing camera seducing cast seducing viewer."

I will watch this for sure!

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Lots of Penn Hollywood news happening recently in the movies, on TV, in music and on magazine covers...


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Jon Avnet's (C'71) film Righteous Kill starring Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro comes out in theaters today.

Logline: "Two Veteran New York City Detectives hunt a vigilante who may be one of their own."

Check out the trailer below!

My past posts about Jon here

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Executive Producer for Saturn Films, Norm Golightly (C'94, Mask and Wig) debuted Bangkok Dangerous in theater's last week.

Check out the trailer below.

My past posts about Norm here

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Merv Griffin Executive Producer Roy Bank (C'94) will oversee Lifetime "Lisa Williams" show (working title).  Per Variety, it will be "bringing the eponymous medium/clairvoyant back to the network for a week of half-hour episodes starting Oct. 27."

My past posts about Roy here

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Elizabeth Banks (C'96) will be Women's Health's first-ever celebrity cover for the October 2008 issue. Click here to check it out

In a recent interview, it was revealed that it was Liz Banks' husband Max Handelman's (C'95, AEPi) idea for her to make THIS brilliant NSFW video:

My past posts about Liz here

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Matt Kap's (C'97) band's (The Moving Picture Show) song "The Boy Who Lives Backwards" is featured in the season premiere of MTV's Road Rules Challenge: The Island. It was played at the end of the show when the cast decided to vote off one of their own. Check your local listings for the show's reairing.

Listen to "The Boy Who Lives Backwards" here:



The story behind the song?   Per Matt:

"The Boy Who Lives Backwards" basically came out of a regret. I was going to take some summer classes at NYU and met a girl the first day in the dorm through a friend. She'd had a bad day and her friend wasn't around so I decided to try and cheer her up. We had a really incredible night but I was so shy at the time and thought she had a boyfriend so I didn't ask her out. Years later I thought of that while singing a melody and began thinking about regrets we have in life - the person we didn't kiss, the bully on the playground we didn't stand up to, the clever comebacks that we wished we'd said in an argument and that's what the song is about. It also really reminds me of New York City in the fall which is my favorite time of year."

Check out Matt's performance at our very own Pennfest 2007:

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Lots of Penn Hollywood news happening recently...

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This past week, Dreamworks Exec Stacey Snider (C'82) was defending her studio's film Tropic Thunder. Find out why!

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Roy Bank (C'94) is collaborating with Salma Hayek on a new reality show with a "unique take" on weddings.

My past posts about Roy here

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Did you know that Alison Greenspan (C'95, Bloomers) Executive Produced the recent Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 (as well as the first one)?

My past posts about Alison here

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Todd Lieberman's (C'95, AEPi, Mask and Wig) film Traitor comes out in theaters today. Check out a trailer below!

My past posts about Todd here

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Another week of activity for Elizabeth Banks (C'96)...

• Liz will return to Scrubs this upcoming season for a 2 episode arc
• She has just been cast as Seann William Scott's love interest in High Town who dies in childbirth but later reappears as a ghost to help raise her surviving infant.
• She appears in this B-Roll footage in Oliver Stone's upcoming "W" film.  See below (minute 3:10)! 

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Lots of Penn news happening this week on-campus and off!...

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Marc Platt (C'79) has extended his contract with Universal Pictures for five years and has several projects of in the works, including a film version of the Broadway show Wicked, a remake of the 1973 Andrew Lloyd Webber-Tim Rice film "Jesus Christ Superstar" and a new motion picture about the life of the late composer George Gershwin.

More here
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Mark Cronin's (Eng'86) Rock of Love comes back for a third season ...this time on a tour bus!

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Roy Bank's (C'94) upcoming reality show "Jingles" has reportedly been delayed due to its own lack of jingle time... More here

Check out who will be hosting this new show currently in production! More here
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According to Cynthia's Cynopsis, Nancy Glass Productions made several exclusive talent and development deals with Penn's Off the Beat a capella group! Anyone know anything more about this?

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Pennalicious Profile: You'll Want To Tune Into His Next Show

Over the past few days, we've been talking about Roy Bank (C'94), reality head honcho over at Mark Burnett Productions and now President of Merv Griffin Television.

I have mentioned that Roy oversaw such Mark Burnett shows as Apprentice, Survivor, RockStar and Contender...

Before Roy left, he not only created and executive produced Are You Smarter that a 5th Grader?, but he also produced another clever reality show that's sure to be a hit that comes out this summer on CBS.

More on the show here!

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Roy's next show, Jingles, will have contestants concocting commercial jingles for real products.

Per RealityTVWorld.com:

"Each one-hour episode of the tentatively-titled series will follow a team of contestants who are given weekly advertisement-writing assignments before having to perform the catchy campaign they created. The products they're pitching could include anything from food or toys to a sports' team fight song or TV show theme. In addition to having to impress a panel of yet-to-be-announced judges and the studio audience, the contestants will also have to wow home viewers -- who will vote for their favorite following each broadcast to determine a weekly winner."

Clever and potentially cringe-worthy music WITH product placement?! I'll be watching for sure!

Roy's got some other shows coming soon but too early to talk about. But from what I've heard, these too are going to be some great programs!

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Pennalicious Profiles: His Hollywood Beginnings and His Biggest Piece of Advice

Over the past 2 days, we've been talking about Roy Bank (C'94), Reality head honcho over at Mark Burnett Productions and now President of Merv Griffin Television.

The big question many aspiring undergrads and alumni want to know is "how did Roy get his start in television and how did he get to do what he loves?"

The answer may surprise you and involves a career change at the age of 29 ....and being in the right place at the right time.

Read more about Roy's journey here and find out what #1 piece of advice he has for those who want to make it in Hollywood!

Check back on Friday to find out what new projects Roy has been working on.

Read Part 1: "He's Way Smarter Than a Fifth Grader"
Read Part 2: "He's Now Running This TV Empire"

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Pennalicious Profiles: He's Now Running This TV Empire

Yesterday, I introduced all of you to reality TV guru Roy Bank (C'94).

After taking charge as the head of Development and Operations for Mark Burnett Productions, Roy has taken another step up and is running the TV Empire for a highly well-known worldwide company.

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As of a few months ago, Roy became the President of Merv Griffin Television.

Per Roy,

"I run the entire television empire of Merv Griffin, one of the true pioneers in the history of the entertainment business. I oversee both the creative and business sides of the business as we take the incredible legacy here and carry it into the future."

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Pennalicious Profiles: He's Way Smarter Than a Fifth Grader

If you're a fan of reality TV, you'll be happy to know that there's a Penn alum behind some of the biggest reality shows out there.

For the past 3 years Roy Bank (C'94, Intramural Football) took charge as the head of Development and Operations for Mark Burnett Productions, one of the most recognized television production companies in the world, overseeing such shows as Apprentice, Survivor, RockStar and Contender. Roy is widely known to have been the major force behind the enormous success of Hollywood’s top reality TV company.

If that isn't impressive enough, Roy is also Creator and Executive Producer of Are You Smarter that a 5th Grader? It would seem everything he puts his mind to turns to gold.

I met Roy working on a mutual project with Mark Burnett Productions producing the Yahoo websites for seasons 2-6 of the Apprentice, The Contender and then a game-a-day promotional project for the Flushed Away movie. Roy’s zest for expanding traditional TV and film into new media lit up a new road for leveraging a content down multiple paths.

All eyes are on this guy to see what’s next. DT knows and is about to share with you how your fellow Penn alum broke through the thousands of wanna’-be players and is on a rise to the top of one of most difficult industries – show biz.

Stay tuned this week to find out what HUGE company he's heading up now and what new projects are on the horizon!

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