Jonathan Murray
Jonathan Murray
Jonathan Murray is an American television producer and co-creator of MTV's The Real World, Road Rules and The Challenge, and the Oxygen Network's Bad Girls Club...
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When you think of the number of hours that go into casting, shooting and assembling the tape into a coherent story, ... it's not an easy process to do. For our audience, it's a show that's very 'relate-able.' It's a lot of fun to watch because you can see people have personal disasters, which is something our audience really enjoys watching.
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What this family needs to do is what every family needs to do: create a budget.
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He did a lot of our work for us in that he educated the public about the principles of investment success. He was a legend in our industry.
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Aren't you glad you are not Dave's 5-year old daughter, Liz? ... He sounds like Cinderella's stepsister.
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But people living together in their 40s, it's like: Is that pathetic? So there has to be a reason why these people live together.
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I'm hoping this season is a real breakthrough year. Thanks to the courageous women who have come into the house, we've gone into some really interesting areas that television doesn't normally explore.
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We've had all sorts of things that have come up over the years. The whole point of the show is to tell a truthful story about life at this critical point in their lives, when Mom and Dad aren't there to solve every problem.
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We don't take it seriously. It's like we are laughing the whole time. We are high-fiving each other on the way to the set in the limo.
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We thought of a family, in a sense, ... that we put together, just starting out and making decisions they had to live with. You never know what the dynamic is going to be once you put these seven larger-than-life characters together, so it's hard to tell what's going to happen. Generally, we look for seven really interesting, really diverse people.
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Until you've done it, ... you can't really understand what it's like to have a camera on you 24-seven.
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