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The Show About The Show
The Show about The Show (2017-2023) is an American television created by independent filmmaker Caveh Zahedi. The first season of the show initially prepared in 2017, then was released nationwide by Factory 25. The series was broadcast on Austrian Television then was picked up by BRIC TV, a Brooklyn non-profit arts organization, for a second season which premiered in 2019.

The series was not renewed for a third season by BRIC TV but Zahedi went on to finance the two remaining seasons of the series himself through a Kickstarter campaign and released the show independently through the website Gumroad.

Each episode of the The Show About The Show centers on the creator, Caveh Zahedi, making the show itself with each episode being about the making of the previous episode. Much of the cast, including Zahedi, play themselves in the series and only a few characters are casted actors.

Reception
The Show About The Show became a hit in independent and experimental film audiences. Chief Film Critic for Indiewire, Eric Kohn, named the show one of the top 15 movies of 2015. Filmmaker Joe Swanberg (Drinking Buddies, Easy) wrote about it in Talkhouse Films as “[his] favorite thing of 2016” and as “[having] more to say, and teach, about business, family, marriage, art, fear, bureaucracy and political correctness than anything [he has] seen in ages.”

When BRIC TV greenlit the show for a second season, the first two episodes of which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2018. The second season premiered in 2019 and was the subject of a New York Times Magazine feature story.