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Hey NYC Techies, Here's Your Shot at Reality Stardom

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Published: Tuesday, 27 Nov 2012 | 2:55 PM ET
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Technology Editor, CNBC.com

Source: bravotv.com

Randi Zuckerberg's start-up reality TV show brought reality stardom to Silicon Valley and now she wants to bring that same fame to the Big Apple.

Start-Ups: Silicon Valley, a reality TV show that follows entrepreneurs in Palo Alto, just launched in early November, but Zuckerberg, the show's producer, is wasting no time in launching a NYC-based reality program with a similar plot.

Next week, representatives from Bravo, the network that airs the show, will be hosting open casting calls in New York for a show about that's city's tech scene.

The casting calls were originally scheduled for this Thursday at the Dream in midtown, but a person familiar with the matter said the event was pushed back because of a "flood of inquiries."

An exact day, location and time have not yet been provided, but we'll be sure to post details as soon as they are revealed.

While a NYC-based tech reality TV show most likely won't be a direct spin-off of the Silicon Valley version, it will have a tech-focused theme, according to a report.

Zuckerberg said that she was looking to see what "techie opportunities" there were in NYC for a show, according to a Wall Street Journal report.

Bravo is owned by NBC Universal, CNBC's parent company

email: tech@cnbc.com

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