I am the Supervising Producer of “Giada at Home”. I bet a lot of folks probably want to know exactly what that title means. Well, our G@H LA staff wrapped production on Season 2. We began in mid-November and finished just before Valentine’s Day. In December, Citizen Pictures' new associate producer, Mallory Potock came out to Los Angeles to work on the set for three weeks and learn the ropes of our production at Culver Studios. Unfortunately for Mallory, I was her means of transportation so she got to work my hours, in at 630 in the morning… out at 830…pm. In any case, Mallory stepped up and embraced the fast pace and crazy hours of production on a cooking show. I don’t know that Mallory really knew what I did either, but I can tell you that after a few weeks as my right arm, she tagged a photo on Facebook for me of sign that she found on a wall. In so many words, she said it reminded her of me. It is kind of funny, but it reminds me of me too. It doesn’t matter how big the problem is, whose problem it is or how we are going to fix the problem… it becomes my problem, that is my job and quite honestly… I love it. I make sure our little creative village at Stage 9 is a fully functioning factory for a couple months at a time and then I put it away. I make sure everyone from the dishwasher to the art assistant, script supervisor to director, host to lighting director has what they need to do their job at 100 percent. It is not always easy (trust me), but I embrace this challenge everyday. I feel like I have climbed a Mount Everest when I have finished. It is a great adrenaline rush and you can’t beat that feeling of accomplishment. It is all about results… “Let me drop everything and work on your problem”.
Jenna Reynolds