{"id":1020,"date":"2008-09-03T16:56:09","date_gmt":"2008-09-03T20:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/?p=1020"},"modified":"2015-10-26T12:14:46","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T16:14:46","slug":"internship-spotlight-trutv","status":"publish","type":"bu-article","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/articles\/internship-spotlight-trutv\/","title":{"rendered":"Internship Spotlight: truTV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Lauren Houston<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This summer I had the opportunity to intern in the development department for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trutv.com\/\">truTV<\/a>.\u00a0 It was the most career eye opening experience I could have had.\u00a0 Working under the VP of Program Development, I sat in on weekly pitch meetings.\u00a0 I was able to voice my opinion on shows the producers were selling and help decide if they were a good fit for truTV&#8217;s brand.\u00a0 Being able to see what ideas are currently floating around, how people are trying to sell them, and what is and isn&#8217;t working with the network execs, taught me how to be a better producer.\u00a0 I also pitched my own ideas for one-offs and series and they were taken seriously.\u00a0 Working as a part of the Turner Entertainment Networks, I accessed the live feed of the May upfronts for tru, TNT, and TBS seeing what all the fuss is about.\u00a0 Through this internship I was able to be a fly on the wall of the corporate offices and learn first hand what networks look for in new programming.\u00a0 For an aspiring producer nothing could have helped me more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Lauren Houston This summer I had the opportunity to intern in the development department for truTV.\u00a0 It was the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9874,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"bu_prepress_billboard":"","_bu_prepress_primary_term":"","_bu_prepress_primary_term_manual":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[534,535],"bu-publication":[],"discipline-type":[],"bu_edition":[],"media_type":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/1020"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/bu-article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/1020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1021,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/1020\/revisions\/1021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1020"},{"taxonomy":"bu-publication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-publication?post=1020"},{"taxonomy":"discipline-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/discipline-type?post=1020"},{"taxonomy":"bu_edition","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu_edition?post=1020"},{"taxonomy":"media_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media_type?post=1020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}