{"id":24004,"date":"2014-02-08T07:03:45","date_gmt":"2014-02-08T06:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/?p=24004"},"modified":"2015-05-05T13:26:32","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T11:26:32","slug":"un-real-received-series-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/2014\/02\/un-real-received-series-order\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Un-Real&#8221; Received Series Order"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/images\/news\/2014\/02\/adr_ur_sa.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"picright\"\/>Shiri Appleby&#8217;s Lifetime pilot &#8220;Un-Real&#8221; received a series order. <\/p>\n<p>According to Deadline, Lifetime has picked up 10 episodes of the dark comedy about a behind the scenes look at a dating show. The new series is inspired by Sarah Gertrude Shapiro\u2019s award-winning independent short \u201cSequin Raze\u201d. Shiri is plays the young staffer Rachel.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadline.com\/2014\/02\/lifetime-marti-noxon-drama-un-real-series\/\" target=\"_blank\">Deadline<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cUn-Real is unlike anything that exists on television today,\u201d Lifetime GM Rob Sharenow said. \u201cIt\u2019s premium and original on every level, and we\u2019re thrilled that Marti Noxon and Sarah Gertrude Shapiro\u2019s unique series will be Lifetime\u2019s first program produced by A+E Studios.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Un-Real centers on Rachel (Appleby), a young staffer whose sole job is to manipulate her relationships with and among the contestants to get the vital dramatic and outrageous footage the program\u2019s dispassionate executive producer (Megyn Price) demands.  What ensues is a humorous, yet vexing, look at what happens in the world of unscripted television, where being a contestant can be vicious and producing it is a whole other reality.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The pilot was written by Marti Noxon and Sarah Gertrude Shapiro. Roger Kumble directed.<\/p>\n<p><small>\u00a9 Photo courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/p\/jZ2X5pIDC_\/#\" target=\"_blank\">Shiri Appleby<\/a>, Instagram<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shiri Appleby&#8217;s Lifetime pilot &#8220;Un-Real&#8221; received a series order. According to Deadline, Lifetime has picked up 10 episodes of the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2374],"tags":[11,2268,2223],"coauthors":[2262],"class_list":["post-24004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leading","category-shiri-appleby","tag-shiri-appleby","tag-un-real","tag-unreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24004"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24012,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24004\/revisions\/24012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24004"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=24004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}