La télé-réalité américaine ne l’avait pas encore tenté: un The Voice pour les écrivains. Avec, à la clé, un gros contrat de publication, et la gloire. Initiative grotesque ou occasion unique de faire émerger des voix écartées des canons traditionnels de l’édition?

Seventy-five emerging authors from around the country gathered on October 30 and 31 in Newark, N.J., to tape the pilot for a reality show called America’s Next Great Author.

There's long been reality shows for singers, dancers, entrepreneurs and bakers. Now aspiring writers can join the fray of this competitive TV genre.

Eckstut says the series will have a nice Great British Baking Show vibe, “where you see how heartwarming and exciting it is to watch ordinary people pursuing their dreams.”

Writing as reality show? Kwame Alexander pitches "America's Next Great Author."

Hosted by Newbery Medal winner Kwame Alexander, the show will put an American Idol-esque spin on the publishing process.

“It’s a show whose mission is to elevate writers, not use them," Eckstut tells me. "We want it to be a supportive environment without the ‘Survivor’ element.”

Contestants will be given expert guidance not only on how to write but also how to build a career, including advice on refining their pitches and constructing a book tour.

…ANGA will give its contestants one minute to pitch their novels to a panel of judges that includes New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds, Fox5 TV presenter Angie Goff, and stage writer and comedian Marga Gomez.

The Jim Henson Company has joined forced with New York Times bestselling poet and Newbery medal-winner Kwame Alexander (pictured) and Oscar-, Grammy- and Emmy-winning musician Common to develop a new series called Jelly Bean Dream Machine.

New York’s Silvergate Media has picked up TV rights to bilingual book series ¡Vamos! from publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, and has plans to develop the IP into an animated kids show.

Sony Pictures Television has acquired the rights to David Henry Sterry’s memoir Master of Ceremonies: A True Story of Love, Murder, Roller Skates & Chippendales, to develop as a series. Emmy-nominated Gordon Smith (Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul) is set to pen the series adaptation and showrun the project for SPT, where he is under an overall deal.