Owning Manhattan's Ryan Serhant Reveals How Filming for Netflix Was Different From His Bravo Days
Ryan Serhant became a famous face after starring on the Bravo reality show Million Dollar Listing: New York as one of the city’s top brokers.
Now, he owns his own brokerage, Serhant, and starred in a Netflix series, Owning Manhattan, focusing on his company and the agents who work there.
He’s now discussing just how different it was filming for Bravo vs. filming for Netflix.
Keep reading to find out more…
“I love Bravo. I wouldn’t be here without them,” Ryan said to Us Weekly. “Given the nature of cable TV, even though it’s streaming now, you have advertisers and commercial breaks. You have to create episodes that make people want to tune in next week, which is a different vibe than ‘watch it now.’”
Because of this limitation, Ryan stressed that “There were certain things we couldn’t really play with.”
He continued, “As a producer on it as well…if you want to create something no one’s seen before in reality TV, the voice-over, the orchestra, the story, and the way all eight episodes almost play out like one documentary—you can’t do that on cable.”
Streaming’s ability to continue a story in a different manner allowed everything to be “bigger.”
“The crew was insane. Everything was just wild. It was bigger,” Ryan added.
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