ACTUALITY ENTERTAINMENT

Media production firm Actuality Entertainment, a subsidiary of the Firstline Security company, maintains an innovative and avant-garde team of experienced television-industry professionals. Launched by Firstline Security CEO Wright Thurston and Chief Marketing Officer Bryan Ferre, Actuality Entertainment combined Firstline's emphasis on network marketing with a reality television format to create The Prodigy, a televised sales competition designed to reward high performers and provide them with greater exposure to the business community.

A revolutionary concept, Actuality Entertainment's The Prodigy provided valuable sales training to motivated individuals of many different business backgrounds, as well as offering contestants an opportunity to test their abilities. Contestants were instructed in Firstline Security's sales and marketing tactics, tested on Firstline products, then sent out into regional territories across the country to apply what they learned. Once they were introduced to their sales territories, participants competed with their reality show colleagues in business-skills tests and in sales performances to determine the winner, or Prodigy, of the Actuality Entertainment program. The champion of the first season of The Prodigy, Jordan Folsom, received a $300,000 cash award and a new car.

Though The Prodigy never aired publicly due to financial hang-ups, Actuality Entertainment shot more than 80 hours of footage of the show's producers engaged in group recruiting presentations and job interviews with potential candidates, and of contestants giving sales pitches to customers and competing in business skills challenges. The yet-to-be-aired edited version of the program features a compilation of footage of the five finalists, following their initial recruitment through to the final awards presentation filmed in Hawaii. Actuality Entertainment continues to own The Prodigy concept under intellectual property laws.