I can guess a few reasons. 1. 90% of a startup is just hard work, it isn't something that makes for good television. Imagine, a person creating and adding con

I can guess a few reasons. 1. 90% of a startup is just hard work, it isn't something that makes for good television. Imagine, a person creating and adding content to their financial statement. Not exactly good television. 2. IMO it trivializes the true nature of what YC team & the startups/entrepreneurs do, which I don't think any of the Y Combinator team wants to do. 3. Hard work almost always trumps an idea. You can have a so-so idea succeed amazingly well while an idea you felt was just out of this world great fails. This usually happens because the entrepreneur doesn't work hard enough or fails to see the opportunities. And all this takes a lot of time to work out, so it isn't sexy television. However, I could see a behind the scenes documentary following one class from YC from acceptance to 1 year post YC. Document what the process is like, how hard it is, let the entrepreneurs have a video confessional, etc. Almost like a pure documentary but with a little Big Brother (the TV Show) tossed in there as you could put video camera's up to catch times you don't have a crew chasing people. I do think that could be really interesting, and having the YC team and the class all giving feedback and details. This show though would cater to a small audience by TV/Movie standards though, likely those who wanted to apply to YC and a specific bread of entrepreneur. But I do think it would be interesting. There is a movie called startup.com from 2001 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0256408/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0256408/) that did a similar documentary type show, and we all watched it around that time. Definitely interesting, but as you can imagine probably cost more to produce, edit and distribute then anyone made.