Often the producers would come to us, asking us to locate a shot of a character looking wistful or sad or pouring a drink – whatever was needed to fill in the story they were telling. I was working as a logger, an entry level position that required me to comb through raw footage, transcribe interviews, and provide detailed descriptions of the action. I have to admit I was pretty scandalized when I first saw the making of reality TV up close.
And I want to let you in on a secret: sometimes what you see on TV isn’t actually real. I’ve worked in reality TV for nearly two decades. Myles, having worked both in front of the camera as the host of the Travel Channel’s Not Your Average Travel Guide and behind-the-scenes as a producer for a variety of networks, including Discovery, OWN, and the Food Network, lays bare the seedy underbelly of Hollywood’s glossy reality TV scene.
Seasoned Los Angeles TV producer Kate Myles makes her fiction debut with THE RECEPTIONIST (Thomas & Mercer 8/1), a blazing love triangle situated in the world that churns after “Cut!” A top reality talent agent can only look past her TED-Talking business guru husband’s infidelity for so long before she has to take matters into her own hands – unfortunately, this mistress is much more volatile than she’d bargained for.
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