[rrbrambley]

What's next? How about: Get 5-10 early-stage startups with decent ideas, put them in a huge house (or office building with several offices) and film them all as they make progress on their product. YC, but being filmed all the time. Judges consist of Silicon Valley bigwigs (PG, some VCs, etc.). The "winners" get funded at the end. The show's title: Series A.

No shirtless club dancing. No dumbasses.

I'm not saying this would paint a more accurate picture for viewers, but I'd definitely be interested in watching it. Call me crazy?

[abiekatz]

Bloomberg did a decent miniseries based on TechStars New York http://www.bloomberg.com/video/75400336/

It was a lot more serious than this Bravos show will be but they still probably manufactured some conflict to keep things engaging.

[andrewf]

It's been claimed they did - http://melanie.io/2011/09/30/techstars-lies-videotape/

HN discussion @ http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3132954

[jordanb]

I think filming hour after hour of programmers working would make for some terrible television.

[rhizome]

Well it's not like any of these shows are portrayed in real-time. Sheesh.

[robryan]

How about just following the ups and downs of startups, without any manufactured "house", or cut in a certain way that overplays tension and underplays what they are actually doing. Please no prizes, eliminations, challenges and generally everything else they put into "reality" TV.

Of course what appeals to people here would never likely get made because it will just cause a wider audience to gloss over. I mean do people want to see a segment with the founders talking about their servers, framework choices etc or with them having a tense stand off with investors, clients or each other.