First Season Just Nominated For Canada's Gemini Award For Daniel Oron - Best Direction In A Reality Series From Survivor, Amazing Race, Apprentice, It's me or the Dog to Bro-Mance, Big Brother, Paris Hilton BFF and America's Next Top Model all get dissected.
TORONTO (CANADA) – September 15, 2009 – Peace Point Entertainment Group is happy to announce it’s first ever Gemini Award nomination recently for Reality Obsessed broadcast on TVtropolis in Canada. President and Executive Producer Les Tomlin states "Our team is ecstatic over the company’s first ever Gemini nomination, especially gratifying for such a cutting edge new series about reality television that will now gain even more momentum around the world considering this prestigious award nomination from Canada’s biggest television awards."
Considered the world's foremost reality-TV expert, 28-year-old Toronto native Murtz Jaffer began his career with his own website debunking the myths around the major reality-TV programs. He became friends with many of the biggest reality stars and began to gain attention in mainstream media such as The New York Times to the Toronto Star. This led to his own TV series that debuted last fall for Canada’s TVtropolis. Peace Point Entertainment Group will once again capture the uniqueness that is Murtz Jaffer in a second season of 13 x :30 episodes of this groundbreaking series about being Reality Obsessed.
Production has begun in Los Angeles that will wrap this fall and debut in 2010 and includes shooting locations across the United States and Canada. This is Peace Point's second commission by TVtropolis following FANatical, a 26-part documentary series on the most passionate of TV fans that debuted in 2007 and is still currently airing on TVtropolis.
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"Reality Obsessed is an innovative series celebrating and dissecting one of TV's biggest genres of the last decade: reality television,” says Peace Point Entertainment Group President and Executive Producer Les Tomlin. "Each episode of Reality Obsessed has Jaffer on the hunt for answers to a particular 'big picture' question in the realm of 'reality.' He's the reality-TV geek in all of us and his mission in life is to find out all that is reality television, going to any length to reveal its inner-workings and intricacies—and we, the viewers, get to ride co-pilot," says Les Tomlin.
About host Murtz Jaffer
Murtz's love affair with reality-TV began at the age of 20 in the basement of his parent's house. He chased down autographs, photos and interviews from his favourite reality-TV stars. His personal rolodex of celebrity friends includes the beloved Rob and Amber, infamous Survivor star Jonny Fairplay, MTV Gauntlet's Katie Doyle and Big Brother's Kaysar Ridha as well as Donald Trump Jr. He’s also met heavy hitters like Martha Stewart and Donald Trump. In 2001, Jaffer launched Survivor-Central, an online resource about the popular reality television series. Featuring several writers from the show itself, Jaffer's popular site evolved to become, in 2004, the entertainment website InsidePulse.com, currently featuring a staff of more than 200 writers. Jaffer’s passion for reality-TV has made him a veritable celebrity in his own right, with frequent media appearances, including Entertainment Tonight Canada, Toronto Sun and The New York Times.
Daniel Oron is a film and television producer / director and a long-time collaborator with Peace Point Entertainment Group. Some of his Television credits include FANatical, Survive This, Animals At Work, War of the Wheels, and Swap TV. He received a Gemini Award nomination this week for Best Direction in a Reality Series. He’s also won multiple Broadcast Design Awards for his work on the Juno’s and as an FX artist, and various international awards and accolades for his films.
About Peace Point Entertainment Group
Peace Point Entertainment Group is a Toronto-based independent producer of cutting-edge television content for the worldwide market. To date, the company has produced well over 400 hours of television content with distribution in over 35 international markets. Current shows in production and/or airing include Ed’s Up! (OLN Canada), Bump! (OUTtv), Food Jammers (Food Canada), Fresh with Anna Olson (Food Canada), Reality Obsessed (TVtropolis) and Real Fight Club (Global TV). The company creates, finances, produces and distributes popular television programming in a variety of genres including doc, lifestyle, reality and drama. Additionally, Peace Point is a shareholder of OUTtv Canada where Tomlin also sits on the board. OUTtv is a national Canadian digital specialty channel (formerly PrideVision). www.peacepoint.tv
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