MTV Networks is dipping their hand into the pool of reality and unscriptedness, developing no less than nine new shows. Maybe I'm just old, but I remember turning on
MTV to watch music videos and
actually seeing them. The list of shows after the jump.
- Yo Mamma is a reality based series from Wilmer Valderama where really good trash-talking gets you cash.
- Omarion focuses on an R&B artist who wants to be the next P. Diddy and is so committed to that goal, he has followed P.Diddy's footsteps, all the way to creating his own recording label.
- Homewrecker is about people with a grudge - and how they can use that grudge to wreck someone's house, in standard MTV/Punk'd style.
- 8th & Ocean trains its camera on women who are trying to become high end fashion models and living in Miami Beach
- Welcome to Crunkville is a contest where the participants audition with the hopes of winning a stay at the home of the Atlanta based The Ying Yang Twins.
- There and Back is about Ashley Angel, former O-Town singer, who is trying to forge a comeback.
- Beyond Normal follows MTV Newser Gideon Yago who steps in to help various people who's lives have been derailed by crisis.
- Mr. Rooney's Barbershop is an upclose and personal look at a Queens NY barbershop. But not your ordinary barbershop. Here, in between cuts, the local barbers are scouting for new hip-hop talent.
- Ten Years Later is the only scripted series in the bunch, based on the true story of Jake Fogelnest. Fogelnest was a child star on a cable show called Squirt TV. Now that he's all grown up, the question is, what now?
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6-27-2005 @ 2:20PM
mcf said...
I'm sort of excited about that Jake show-- I've actually found myself wondering what the hell happened to him.
But the one where you have to audition for the right to crash on someone's couch?! What's that about? And does Kato Kaelin host?
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6-27-2005 @ 10:31PM
Gary said...
Complaining about MTV not playing music videos is so 1995.
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6-29-2005 @ 10:48PM
Arun said...
#2, I TOTALLY agree! Plus when they do show some videos, they don't even play the whole thing, how ridiculous is that. I hate flipping through TRL I think it was and it gets interrupted by some guy or a girl screaming something and saying "hi" to their friends back in their hometown.
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7-01-2005 @ 7:24AM
The Real World said...
"MTV Networks is dipping their hand into the pool of reality and unscriptedness"
Yeah, it's great to see MTV finally trying this reality TV thing.
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