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EPISODE 1

55:03

Do It For The Grand

season 1 episode 1

June 16, 2024

DO IT FOR THE GRAND is a documentary about a reality show about the construction of a broke ass game show, from the seriously unserious minds of Jake Jurich & Alexis Simmons. 

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EPISODE 1

55:03

Do It For The Grand

season 1 episode 1

June 16, 2024

DO IT FOR THE GRAND is a documentary about a reality show about the construction of a broke ass game show, from the seriously unserious minds of Jake Jurich & Alexis Simmons. 

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EPISODE 2

23:40

Punctuality Is A Sin

season 1 episode 2

July 6, 2024

Experience the exhilaration of getting ready to roll by 9AM, with your favorite film crew and the cast who decided to show up. 

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EPISODE 2

23:40

Punctuality Is A Sin

season 1 episode 2

July 6, 2024

Experience the exhilaration of getting ready to roll by 9AM, with your favorite film crew and the cast who decided to show up. 

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EPISODE 3

18:01

Gramber Alert

season 1 episode 3

July 20, 2024

The game’s going live any minute now…but first, a meditation on stranger danger. 

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EPISODE 3

18:01

Gramber Alert

season 1 episode 3

July 20, 2024

The game’s going live any minute now…but first, a meditation on stranger danger. 

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EPISODE 4

31:21

Hot Box, Cold Feet

season 1 episode 4

September 7, 2024

It’s 9AM, and we’ve got 30 hours to go. Who finds their BIG RED BOX, and who FUCKING FOLDS? 

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EPISODE 4

31:21

Hot Box, Cold Feet

season 1 episode 4

September 7, 2024

It’s 9AM, and we’ve got 30 hours to go. Who finds their BIG RED BOX, and who FUCKING FOLDS? 

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caught up? we're at the end of episode 4 and...

IT'S 10AM SATURDAY:

29 HOURS REMAINING

Post TitlePost Date

CARMEN HAS $650

NIA & VONNIE HAVE $600

KEIONI HAS $550

JHORDAN HAS $400

What Would You Do For
A Thousand Dollars?

five new yorkers attemped to livestream
themselves for 30 hours straight

five new yorkers attemped to
livestream themselves for 30 hours straight

9AM Saturday to 3PM Sunday…who’s gonna stay on stream all 30 hours? Our contestants were given contracts to sign, battery packs to keep their phones alive, and almost no information about what they were in for.

they thought it was for a game show
called “do it for the grand”

“We really don’t give a shit about making a game show”
-Jake Jurich, co-creator (episode 1) 

“None of the money is ever gonna make sense”
-Alexis Simmons, co-creator (episode 4)

The innermost layer of DO IT FOR THE GRAND is an absurd, micro-budget game show. Contestants are constantly hovering between $0 and $1000—winning and losing money from missions, challenges, and improvised punishments. It’s all coming in through the livestream chat!

Whatever they’ve got in the bank come 3PM Sunday is theirs to keep. Who makes it all 30 hours, and who’s gonna DO IT FOR THE GRAND?

but it was really a reality show
about the making of the game show

Our crew wasn’t just running around NYC filming the game show contestants…we were also filming ourselves running around NYC filming the game show contestants. Everyone was working for free, almost none of the locations were cleared, actors were cancelling left and right, and yet—the show had to go on.

DO IT FOR THE GRAND is a reality show about the trials and tribulations of executing a shitty game show, starring a stoned crew of entertainment professionals who were all unemployed while the industry went on strike for the summer.

and this is a documentary about that.

We shot with each contestant on their own weekend of summer 2023. We had to prepare 30 hours of shit for each of them, even if they might not make it all the way through the call sheet. So the weekdays in between each shoot were spent developing games & missions, booking actors, crafting costumes, prop shopping and prepping for production meetings. And at this point, would you believe us if we told you we filmed all of that, too?

We’ve taken all the game show footage from each contestant’s weekend, all the behind-the-scenes footage of the crew’s reality, all the documentary footage of the prep that made it possible, and all the interviews we shot with everyone involved…and wrapped it all up in a blunt.

So—finally—DO IT FOR THE GRAND is a documentary about a reality show about a broke ass game show.

five new yorkers attemped to livestream themselves for 30 hours straight

they thought it was for a game show called “do it for the grand”

but it was really a reality show about the making of the game show

and this is a documentary about that.

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in the show it's

10AM SATURDAY

and there are

29 HOURS REMAINING

in reality it's

November 13, 2024

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EDITING EPISODE 5

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