Living Together
Format
Television pilot
Genre
Mystery drama
Pages
45
Comps
It's UnREAL’s behind-the-scenes reality TV drama meets The White Lotus’s dark satire, with elements of Only Murders in the Building’s playful murder mystery
Logline
A woman who secretly lived in her car to compete on a reality show must clear her name when the host's body turns up in that same car.
The Story
The cameras never stop rolling. The lights never go off. Every move is captured, cut, spun, and sold as entertainment. For Christina, a superfan finally stepping into her dream reality show, it’s supposed to be the chance of a lifetime. Be herself, win over the audience, maybe even walk away with the prize money. But when her ex-boyfriend walks into the house as a “surprise contestant,” Christina’s dream curdles into a nightmare. Her private past becomes public spectacle. And when the show’s flamboyant, conniving host winds up dead, Christina finds herself framed in a murder plot that’s juicier than anything the producers could have scripted. Living Together is a razor-edged dramedy about reality TV’s blurred line between truth and performance. It peels back the curtain on the producers pulling strings, the contestants playing games, and the machinery that turns vulnerability into entertainment. And underneath it all: a murder mystery no one saw coming.
Behind The Story
Reality TV has always fascinated me — both as a viewer and someone who’s seen the frantic hustle behind the curtain. It’s a machine designed to churn out spectacle, and yet it thrives on the humanity of the people inside it. I wanted to take that world — the naivety of superfans, the manipulation of producers, the egos of hosts — and collide it with a heightened, deadly consequence. Living Together asks: what happens when the toxic mix of performance, desperation, and control finally combusts? And what if, after years of being told “it’s just a game,” someone starts playing for keeps?
The World
The story unfolds inside the chaotic, hyper-produced bubble of a UK reality series — a world of neon-lit diary rooms, cramped control booths, and contestants who are both players and pawns. It’s glossy on the surface but messy underneath, where drama isn’t just manufactured for TV; it leaks into real life with deadly consequences.
