Preface
- So, You Want to Be a Producer?
- The Current State of Television or How Did We Get Here?
- Essential Skills for Producing Television
- How to Create a Program
- Budgeting, Financing, and Legal Considerations
- Producing TV in the Studio
- Remote Producing Techniques
- How to Produce News Content
- Producing for Sports
- Producing Formats From Drama to Reality Television
- Producing with Cutting Edge Technology
- YouTube, Streaming to the World: Distributing New Media
- Finding Your Audience: Marketing Your Content
Appendices
Glossary of Television Production Terms
Recommended Additional Reading and Resources for Students
Index
Biography
Michael Sinclair has 30 years of experience in the TV industry as a writer, producer, and director, creating programming for broadcast, cable, and streaming platforms. He has worked on many long‑running series such as Wicked Attraction, Ice Cold Killers, FBI Criminal Pursuit, Happily Never After, Pretty Bad Girls, American Occult, and Death by Gossip for Investigation Discovery. He also produced documentary series such as American Gangs and The New Detectives for the Discovery Channel. His work includes Monsters and Mysteries in America, True Supernatural, I Dated A Psycho, I Got Away for OWN, Change My Space for HGTV, and more. He currently serves as the Associate Dean of the School of Communication and the Arts at Regent University, where he is also an assistant professor of film and television.
