The Real World
1992
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Mary-Ellis Bunim (July 9, 1946 – January 29, 2004) was an American television producer and co-creator of MTV's The Real World and Road Rules.
Feb 3, 2004 · Mary-Ellis Bunim, a producer who helped bring television into the age of reality with ''The Real World'' and whose latest hit series was ''The Simple Life,'' died here on Thursday. She was 57.
Jun 15, 2024 · One floor downstairs, in the control room for the first season of MTV’s “The Real World,” the show’s co-creators, Jon Murray and Mary-Ellis Bunim, gazed at a bank of live-feed monitors in...
Feb 8, 2004 · Producer Mary-Ellis Bunim, who brought television into the age of reality with MTV ' s " The Real World " and whose latest hit series was " The Simple Life, " has died at age 57. Ms. Bunim died...
Jan 31, 2004 · Television producer Mary-Ellis Bunim, who is widely regarded as the “mother of reality television,” died Thursday of cancer, according to her publicist. She was 57.
Considered as a pioneer in the reality television genre with local hit programs like The Real World, Road Rules and Bad Girls Club, it was founded in 1987 by Mary-Ellis Bunim and Jonathan Murray after an agent named Mark Itkin of the William Morris Agency put the two together to develop a scripted soap opera for MTV.
Feb 22, 2004 · Bunim -- who died on Jan. 29 of breast cancer at the age of 57 -- was the irascible mother of reality television: a woman who conquered the soap opera world, then built a...
