Cutforth: To make a compelling reality show, I've always felt--particularly now--you have to show the audience something they haven't really seen before, either in terms of access or concept--an idea they've never seen play out in real life.
"The concept of being able to access any kind of communication from multiple devices is something fundamental, but so far they've all been kind of clunky -- there hasn't been a carrier-grade solution based on the network itself, " says Charles Gerlach, a director at the consulting firm Mainspring.