Unscripted TV Departments

Comes up with ideas for TV programs and pitches them to commissioners, who are employed by broadcasters

• Development assistant producer

• Development producer

• Development researcher

• Personal assistant

Manages all the logistics of making a program, and balances the creative vision with financial and time constraints

• Line producer

• Logger

• Production coordinator

• Production executive

• Production manager

• Production assistant

• Script supervisor

Recruits people to work in editorial or production roles, and knows who's who in the unscripted TV industry

• Receptionist

• Talent assistant

• Talent manager

Creates the sound and processes the program audio, whether capturing sound on location or mixing during a live transmission

• Grams operator

• Sound assistant

• Sound guarantee

• Sound recordist

• Sound supervisor

Installs operates and maintains the equipment used to broadcast television programs

• Technical manager

• Vision guarantee

• Vision supervisor

• OB rigger

Responsible for the story content of the program holds the creative vision and makes it happen

• Archive producer

• Assistant producer

• Casting producer

• Celebrity producer

• Digital producer

• Director

• Edit producer

• Executive Producer

• Games producer

• Multi-camera director

• Producer

• Producer director

• Question producer

• Researcher

• Runner

• Series director

• Series producer

• Vision mixer

• VT editor

Creates the look of the program by designing the set, the costume, hair, and make-up

• Art department assistant

• Art department runner

• Art director

• Costume assistant

• Costume designer

• Costume supervisor

• Hair and make-up artist

• Hair and make-up assistant

• Hair and make-up designer

• Production buyer

• Production designer

Includes the camera and lighting departments, installs the power, captures the action

• Autocue operator

• Camera assistant

• Camera operator

• Camera supervisor

• Data wrangler

• Digital imaging technician

• Gaffer

• Grip

• Jib operator

• Kit room assistant

• Lighting console operator

• Lighting director

• Spark

Manages and coordinates the activities in the studio and location-based productions

• Floor assistant

• Floor manager

• Floor runner

• Scene hand

Runs the studio from which TV shows are recorded or broadcast

• Studio assistant

• Studio coordinator

• Studio manager

• Personal assistant

• Logger

• Receptionist

• Runner

• Art department runner

• Costume assistant

• Hair and make-up assistant

• Camera assistant

• Kit room assistant

• Sound assistant

• Floor runner

• Studio assistant