Michael Carroll
Appearances
The Journal.
‘Love Is Blind’ Is Back. Not All the Drama Is On-Screen.
And that's because you're not using real actors, using people that have signed up to be filmed 24-7. So if you only had them for 12 to 14 hours, you'd have a two-day schedule when you could have had one. So the budgets are going to go crazy. And it's going to make for the networks and the production companies to make a lot less television because they couldn't afford it.
The Journal.
‘Love Is Blind’ Is Back. Not All the Drama Is On-Screen.
The reality television business would slow down immensely if it was required to have our cast members classified as employees. Not necessarily because of the pay, but because of restricting their time on camera and the amount of time that we can shoot with them. If they're an employee, there are time limits to how long you can make someone work.
The Journal.
‘Love Is Blind’ Is Back. Not All the Drama Is On-Screen.
And the way reality television works is that it's a slimmed down, really tight version of regular television with a way smaller budget.
The Journal.
‘Love Is Blind’ Is Back. Not All the Drama Is On-Screen.
My name is Michael Carroll. I'm 54. Oh, I can't believe it. And I'm a former reality television producer. Now I work in meetings.
The Journal.
‘Love Is Blind’ Is Back. Not All the Drama Is On-Screen.
This was a show about dating and finding the love of your life and potentially getting married. So everything is directed towards that direction. Not necessarily always pushing, but guiding.
The Journal.
‘Love Is Blind’ Is Back. Not All the Drama Is On-Screen.
Yeah, nudging to keep them within the guide rails and on the street of where we're going. And a lot of time it was asking them exactly... asking them the question that I wanted to hear back, because that made it very simple, direct, and expeditious for me to get what I wanted. Otherwise, we'd have been watching paint dry for 24 hours, and we'd have been like, we got nothing today, you know?
The Journal.
‘Love Is Blind’ Is Back. Not All the Drama Is On-Screen.
Make good TV, absolutely. Yeah, don't waste your time.
The Journal.
‘Love Is Blind’ Is Back. Not All the Drama Is On-Screen.
Absolutely. Yeah. I mean, we always said that alcohol was like true serum.
The Journal.
‘Love Is Blind’ Is Back. Not All the Drama Is On-Screen.
and it is you know people's inhibitions go away most of the time they're a little more apt to speak their mind and to say what they feel and they'll probably be a little more emotional when there's alcohol involved um and yes there were times they probably should have been fed more but that was not from us saying let's starve them it was from us staying on a schedule because we start shooting something specific we're gonna stop for cheeseburgers it's not gonna happen
The Journal.
‘Love Is Blind’ Is Back. Not All the Drama Is On-Screen.
Yes, because you're a compassionate human being and we all weren't like evil people. But after doing it season after seasons, I started to go, OK, this is, you know, there's times that I'm really messing with these girls and I'm really kind of like manipulating and tricking them. So there were times that I really started to feel it for them.
The Journal.
‘Love Is Blind’ Is Back. Not All the Drama Is On-Screen.
It would have made my job more difficult because I wouldn't have been able to have them under my thumb or in my world or my web the entire time. So I think it would be a great thing for the cast. I think it would be an awful thing for the producers and the production company and the networks.