For your reality show, I think the proposal would need to include:

1. The premise
2. The people (host, contestants, whatever)
3. The tone, including some sample dialogue/narration if appropriate
4. The reward or outcome
5. Structure of a typical episode
6. Future episode descriptions

I think you need to present enough detail so that the producer really understands what the show
is, and how it differs from anything else on television. If you have a background in physical
production, you might include more detail about shooting days, crew or locations, but if you
don’t know, don’t try to fake it.

Sample “Treatment/Synopsis” For A Reality TV Proposal: [the following original concept is

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Author Name: Cheryl Jennings

Genre: Reality Series

Title: “The Last Tango”

Logline (short pitch): Temptation Island� meets “Around the World in Eighty Dates�

Synopsis:

Five un-married couples will be brought together for a relationship-altering journey. In this
series, each person will explore and discover what their relationship is really made of when faced
with The Last Tango. Those couples cast will be currently involved in a “long engagement�
or living together as boyfriend/girlfriend for an extended period. All will be at a turning point, or
breaking point in their relationships.

Each couple will be separated into groups of five men and five women. We will then follow each
group of men and women on a romp-around-America Last Tango before marriage.

Locales will be Hawaii, Las Vegas, Nashville, New York City, Beverly Hills, and Miami. On
their journey they will be set-up at events, outings, and other social adventures where they will
meet and spend time with a variety of tempting prospects or “dates�.

Each of our couples will be privy to fear-provoking information about their significant
other’s activities while they themselves are in the midst of their own journey of temptation,
or perhaps the discovery of a new love. It’s a triangle of conflict that will boil over into the
final episode when our couples are reunited.

Final Episode: What one person of each couple does not know is that they will return from their
Sabbatical to face an ultimatum by their partner on Live TV. It is at that moment they will be
confronted by their significant other who poses the ultimatum; “Marry me now, or lose me
forever�.

Each relationship faces peril or a prize: to part separate ways or get married at that moment. Ten
adventures, five couples, five ultimatums, all leading to five moments of drama on Live TV.

For some it will be the final straw. For others, a new beginning.

“Can your relationship survive The Last Tango?�