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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title>Short Circuitz hits MTV in April</title><link>http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/03/29/short-circuitz-hits-mtv-in-april/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/03/29/short-circuitz-hits-mtv-in-april/</guid><comments>http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/03/29/short-circuitz-hits-mtv-in-april/#comments</comments><description><![CDATA[<p>Filed under: <a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/category/comedy/" rel="tag">Other Comedy Shows</a>, <a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/category/celebrities/" rel="tag">Celebrities</a>, <a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/category/mtv/" rel="tag">MTV</a></p><p><img  height="190" alt="short circuitz" hspace="4" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.tvsquad.com/media/2007/03/circutst.gif" width="250" align="right" vspace="4" border="0" />Last October <a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/2006/10/02/mtv-orders-sketch-comedy-from-nick-cannon/">Anna mentioned</a> that MTV had picked up another new comedy series from Nick Cannon called<em> Nick Cannon Presents: Short Circuitz</em>. You know the show is going to be all urban and edgy because they used a "Z" instead of an "S." That's how all the cool kidz do it, you know. Since I'm actually cooler than anyone, I've stopped using the letter S completely in my daily life:</p>
<p><strong>Me:</strong> <em>Excuze me, I want to order a zandwich, and I want plenty of muztard and mayonnaize, pleaze. And a zausage patty, but not too zpicy, becauze my tongue is zenzitive.</em></p>
<p>You can watch a <a href="http://www.mtv.com/#/ontv/dyn/short_circuitz/series.jhtml">trailer for the new series here</a>, which premieres on MTV April 5 at 9:30 p.m. Apparently, they decided to make a trailer using only the unfunny bits from the show, or maybe those were the funny parts. I don't pretend to know everything about comedy, especially the painfully unfunny kind.</p><p style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;">&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/03/29/short-circuitz-hits-mtv-in-april/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/forward/862262/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/03/29/short-circuitz-hits-mtv-in-april/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a></p>]]></description><category>comedy</category><category>myv</category><category>nick cannon</category><category>short circuitz</category><category>sketch</category><category>trailer</category><dc:creator>Adam Finley</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2007 12:03:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Andy returns, and he's funnier</title><link>http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/03/29/andy-returns-and-hes-funnier/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/03/29/andy-returns-and-hes-funnier/</guid><comments>http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/03/29/andy-returns-and-hes-funnier/#comments</comments><description><![CDATA[<p>Filed under: <a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/category/comedy/" rel="tag">Other Comedy Shows</a>, <a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/category/web/" rel="tag">Web</a>, <a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/category/mtv/" rel="tag">MTV</a></p><p><img  height="188" alt="andy milonakis" hspace="4" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.tvsquad.com/media/2007/03/andymios.gif" width="250" align="right" vspace="4" border="0" />I've said before I'm kind of an intermittent fan of the <em><a href="http://www.mtv2.com/#andymilonakis">Andy Milonakis Show</a></em>, but after seeing the season three premiere in which Andy first arrives in Los Angeles, I have to say that the show has improved greatly. If you hated Andy before, you'll probably still hate him, since his brand of humor isn't for everyone, but I was pleasantly surprised at how much more fully realized the show now seems. The first season had some very funny moments, but it seemed to lack focus, as if it wasn't sure what it was trying to be. I think both Andy and his show have finally found themselves, and Milonakis may have figured out a way to turn his penchant for oddball non sequiturs and general nonsense into real, honest to goodness comedy. Our little weirdo has finally become a butterfly, with peanut butter on his hands ("peanut butter slap")!</p>
<p>The six season three episodes are available on iTunes and will also be made available on MTV2.com and MTV.com.</p><p style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;">&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/03/29/andy-returns-and-hes-funnier/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/forward/862237/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/03/29/andy-returns-and-hes-funnier/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a></p>]]></description><category>andy milonakis</category><category>AndyMilonakis</category><category>comedian</category><category>itunes</category><category>mtv2</category><category>online</category><category>season three</category><category>surreal</category><category>thirs season</category><category>weird</category><dc:creator>Adam Finley</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2007 09:02:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Punk'd to end with a one-day marathon</title><link>http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/03/28/punkd-to-end-with-a-one-day-marathon/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/03/28/punkd-to-end-with-a-one-day-marathon/</guid><comments>http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/03/28/punkd-to-end-with-a-one-day-marathon/#comments</comments><description><![CDATA[<p>Filed under: <a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/category/reality/" rel="tag">Other Reality Shows</a>, <a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/category/mtv/" rel="tag">MTV</a>, <a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/category/cancellations/" rel="tag">Cancellations</a></p><img width="200" vspace="4" hspace="4" height="200" border="0" align="right" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.tvsquad.com/media/2007/03/kutcher_punkd.jpg"  alt="ashton kutcher" />Ashton Kutcher's prank show on MTV is coming to an end after eight seasons, according to <a href="http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117961846.html?categoryid=14&amp;cs=1&amp;nid=2565">Variety</a>. MTV plans to air the entire final season during one day -- April 7th -- with back-to-back new episodes. The network is calling it a sneak preview, where it will air all eight episodes before the official premiere date of the last season of <em>Punk'd</em>. The episodes will also air weekly starting April 10 at 9 pm.<br /><br />This season, <em>Punk'd</em> reportedly pranks <em>Lost</em>'s <a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/03/27/evangeline-lilly-gets-punkd/">Evangeline Lilly</a>, Hilary Swank, Nelly Furtado, Magic Johnson, and... Ashton Kutcher. Hopefully that'll be the series finale, where Ashton gets his due for "punking" other celebs for so many years (the Justin Timberlake episode was legendary).<p style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;">&nbsp;</p><p><a href=http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117961846.html?categoryid=14&amp;cs=1&amp;nid=2565>Read</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/03/28/punkd-to-end-with-a-one-day-marathon/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/forward/862185/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/03/28/punkd-to-end-with-a-one-day-marathon/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a></p>]]></description><category>ashton kutcher</category><category>AshtonKutcher</category><category>evangeline lilly</category><category>justin timberlake</category><category>magic johnson</category><category>nelly furtado</category><category>prank</category><category>punk'd</category><dc:creator>Anna Johns</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2007 12:43:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Evangeline Lilly gets Punk'd</title><link>http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/03/27/evangeline-lilly-gets-punkd/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/03/27/evangeline-lilly-gets-punkd/</guid><comments>http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/03/27/evangeline-lilly-gets-punkd/#comments</comments><description><![CDATA[<p>Filed under: <a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/category/abc/" rel="tag">ABC</a>, <a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/category/lost/" rel="tag">Lost</a>, <a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/category/celebrities/" rel="tag">Celebrities</a>, <a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/category/mtv/" rel="tag">MTV</a></p><p><img width="200" vspace="4" hspace="4" height="311" border="0" align="right" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.tvsquad.com/media/2007/03/elillyportlandjpg.jpg" alt="Evangeline Lilly" />Evangeline Lilly has <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/27/AR2007032700393.html?sub=new">fallen victim to Ashton Kutcher</a> and his <em>Punk'd </em>gang. The <em>Lost</em> actress will appear on the newest (and supposedly last) season of the MTV prank show, along with fellow celebrities Hilary Swank, Magic Johnson, and Nelly Furtado. Lilly's episode will be aired in an eight-episode marathon of the show on April 7. Each episode will be aired individually beginning on April 10.</p>
<p>No word yet on how Lilly was punk'd. Perhaps they switched Dominic Monaghan with Billy Boyd and waited for her to notice. MTV is promoting this season as the show's last, but fake announcements about the show's cancellation have been released before. A similar claim was made after the 2003 season of <em>Punk'd,</em> but the show returned in 2004. A <em>Punk'd Awards</em> highlight special covering all past seasons is scheduled for June 5.</p><p style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;">&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/03/27/evangeline-lilly-gets-punkd/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/forward/861391/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/03/27/evangeline-lilly-gets-punkd/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a></p>]]></description><category>Ashton Kutcher</category><category>Evangeline Lilly</category><category>EvangelineLilly</category><category>Hilary Swank</category><category>Magic Johnson</category><category>Nelly Furtado</category><category>Punk'd</category><category>Punk'd victims</category><dc:creator>Erin Martell</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2007 14:19:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Casting begins for what may be The Real World's last season</title><link>http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/03/15/casting-begins-for-what-may-be-the-real-worlds-last-season/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/03/15/casting-begins-for-what-may-be-the-real-worlds-last-season/</guid><comments>http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/03/15/casting-begins-for-what-may-be-the-real-worlds-last-season/#comments</comments><description><![CDATA[<p>Filed under: <a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/category/reality/" rel="tag">Other Reality Shows</a>, <a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/category/mtv/" rel="tag">MTV</a></p><img width="250" vspace="4" hspace="4" height="187" border="0" align="right" alt="The Real World Last Season" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.tvsquad.com/media/2007/03/realworld.jpg" />Casting for the 20th season of <em>The Real World</em> is underway, and get this, they're looking for people with ambitions and career goals. Apparently, the drinking, whoring version of<em> The Real World</em> is on the way out. They're looking for "aspiring actors, models, dancers, filmmakers, musicians, athletes, artists, journalists, stylists and fashion designers" or any youngin' with "interesting career goals." <em>The Real World's</em> producers don't have a contract with MTV beyond the 20th season. That's not to say that they won't eventually strike a deal, but it looks like Bunim-Murray is trying a return to form by assembling a cast of literate people whose desires include more than a pitcher of Mega-ritas and a hot tub threesome. <br /><br />So, if you're between the ages of 18 and 24, this may be your last chance to live in a house with a bunch of strangers, have your life taped and humiliate your parents. (Just kidding, you're young. You'll have plenty of more chances to disappoint your parents.) Casting news is available online at <a href="http://www.mm-agency.com/blog/mtv-real-world/mtv-real-world-20-casting-call-may-be-the-last-season/3103/">Bunim-Murray's casting website</a>.<br /><br />[Via <a href="http://www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/archives/the_real_world_20/2007_Mar_13_casting_goals">Reality Blurred</a>]<p style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;">&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/03/15/casting-begins-for-what-may-be-the-real-worlds-last-season/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/forward/853007/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/03/15/casting-begins-for-what-may-be-the-real-worlds-last-season/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a></p>]]></description><category>20th season</category><category>ambitions</category><category>application</category><category>audition</category><category>Bumin-Murray</category><category>careers</category><category>casting</category><category>Reality Blurred</category><category>The Real World</category><dc:creator>Julia Ward</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2007 14:09:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Who wants to be an MTV guest host?</title><link>http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/03/14/who-wants-to-be-an-mtv-guest-host/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/03/14/who-wants-to-be-an-mtv-guest-host/</guid><comments>http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/03/14/who-wants-to-be-an-mtv-guest-host/#comments</comments><description><![CDATA[<p>Filed under: <a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/category/cable/" rel="tag">Cable</a>, <a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/category/music-and-variety/" rel="tag">Music and Variety</a>, <a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/category/mtv/" rel="tag">MTV</a></p><p><img width="200" vspace="4" hspace="4" height="160" border="0" align="right" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.tvsquad.com/media/2007/03/mtvlogo2.jpg" alt="MTV logo" />MTV is really getting into this whole idea of TV viewers also becoming TV content providers. First they add a <a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/03/13/mtv-movie-awards-will-have-user-video-category">new viewer video category</a> for the <em>MTV Movie Awards</em>, and now they're <a href="http://www.mtv.com/asm/acuvue/my_trl/2007/contests/?source=TLD_acuvue.mtv.com">looking for guest hosts</a> for <em>Total Request Live</em>.</p>
<p>Fans of the show have to answer six questions to enter, including which celebrity that they'd pick to star as in a movie about their life, who they would pick for the ultimate <em>TRL</em> guest list, and how they would describe <em>TRL</em> to someone who has never seen the show before (that last one is easy: they play music videos, a celeb comes on, and the kids in the audience go nutso). MTV and Acuvue will pick four winners who will each host a day in May.</p>
<p>You also have to upload a picture of yourself. So please, make sure you're attractive.</p>
<p>[via <a href="http://www.tvguide.com/">TV Guide</a>]</p><p style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;">&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/03/14/who-wants-to-be-an-mtv-guest-host/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/forward/852121/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/03/14/who-wants-to-be-an-mtv-guest-host/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a></p>]]></description><category>bands</category><category>celebs</category><category>damien fahey</category><category>DamienFahey</category><category>gossip</category><category>mtv</category><category>mtv movie awards</category><category>music stars</category><category>music videos</category><category>total request live</category><category>trl</category><category>tv guide</category><dc:creator>Bob Sassone</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2007 09:31:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>MTV Movie Awards will have user video category</title><link>http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/03/13/mtv-movie-awards-will-have-user-video-category/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/03/13/mtv-movie-awards-will-have-user-video-category/</guid><comments>http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/03/13/mtv-movie-awards-will-have-user-video-category/#comments</comments><description><![CDATA[<p>Filed under: <a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/category/music-and-variety/" rel="tag">Music and Variety</a>, <a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/category/web/" rel="tag">Web</a>, <a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/category/mtv/" rel="tag">MTV</a></p><p><img  height="336" alt="mtv movie award" hspace="4" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.tvsquad.com/media/2007/03/awarddss.jpg" width="200" align="right" vspace="4" border="0" />MTV is adding a <a href="http://www.lostremote.com/2007/03/12/mtv-movie-awards-to-include-user-video-category/">new category to the <em>MTV Movie Awards</em></a>: Best Movie Spoof. More exactly: the best movie spoof created by a viewer and uploaded to Yahoo! Movies. </p>
<p>Starting April 23, folks can upload their spoofs to a special site on Yahoo! Movies, which will feature the usual interactivity associated with user content and Web 2.0. The winner will be announced during the MTV Movie Awards on June 3, and other videos will become part of the ceremony thanks to a "World Wide Web Wall."</p><p><a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/03/13/mtv-movie-awards-will-have-user-video-category/" rel="bookmark">Continue reading <em>MTV Movie Awards will have user video category</em></a></p><p style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;">&nbsp;</p><p><a href=http://www.lostremote.com/2007/03/12/mtv-movie-awards-to-include-user-video-category/>Read</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/03/13/mtv-movie-awards-will-have-user-video-category/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/forward/851163/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/03/13/mtv-movie-awards-will-have-user-video-category/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a></p>]]></description><category>best spoof</category><category>film</category><category>mark burnett</category><category>movie</category><category>movies</category><category>mtv movie awards</category><category>user generated</category><dc:creator>Adam Finley</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2007 11:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>MTV reality star headed to jail</title><link>http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/03/07/mtv-reality-star-headed-to-jail/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/03/07/mtv-reality-star-headed-to-jail/</guid><comments>http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/03/07/mtv-reality-star-headed-to-jail/#comments</comments><description><![CDATA[<p>Filed under: <a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/category/reality/" rel="tag">Other Reality Shows</a>, <a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/category/celebrities/" rel="tag">Celebrities</a>, <a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/category/mtv/" rel="tag">MTV</a></p><img width="200" vspace="4" hspace="4" height="302" border="0" align="right" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.tvsquad.com/media/2007/03/jason_wahler.jpg"  alt="jason wahler" />Jason Wahler will spend the next two months in jail. No, you can't lock him up for simply being an idiot. He actually had to do something, like punch a city employee and a tow truck driver. Last year, the 20-year old co-star of <em>The Hills</em> and <em>Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County</em> blew his top when a tow truck was blocking the road as the driver tried to move an illegally parked car. Wahler reportedly got out of his vehicle and yelled racial slurs at the city worker and tow truck driver (both of them black) and then actually punched them both before being subdued. Blood-alcohol tests show Wahler's level was .22.<br /><br />On top of his two months in jail, pretty boy will also have to attend a one-day program at the Museum of Intolerance. The judge was probably pretty strict with the guy because he was recently arrested in North Carolina for underage drinking and resisting arrest.<br /><br />Sounds like a great role model for the impressionable MTV crowd.<p style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;">&nbsp;</p><p><a href=http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070307/ap_en_tv/people_jason_wahler;_ylt=AsZTNjG3Ua29x5bg5fyziixpMhkF>Read</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/03/07/mtv-reality-star-headed-to-jail/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/forward/848003/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/03/07/mtv-reality-star-headed-to-jail/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a></p>]]></description><category>arrested</category><category>jail</category><category>jason wohler</category><category>JasonWohler</category><category>laguna beach</category><category>orange county</category><category>punch</category><category>racist</category><category>the hills</category><dc:creator>Anna Johns</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2007 19:34:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>MTV getting the hang of this whole Web video thing</title><link>http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/03/07/mtv-getting-the-hang-of-this-whole-web-video-thing/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/03/07/mtv-getting-the-hang-of-this-whole-web-video-thing/</guid><comments>http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/03/07/mtv-getting-the-hang-of-this-whole-web-video-thing/#comments</comments><description><![CDATA[<p>Filed under: <a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/category/music-and-variety/" rel="tag">Music and Variety</a>, <a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/category/web/" rel="tag">Web</a>, <a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/category/mtv/" rel="tag">MTV</a></p><p><img  height="187" alt="MTV" hspace="4" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.tvsquad.com/media/2007/03/mtvgyghgdd.jpg" width="250" align="right" vspace="4" border="0" />Whatever you may have thought of Napster and file sharing, one thing is clear: it changed the way people think about how music is both marketed and distributed. In much the same way, sites like YouTube have changed how people watch television. These days people have more options than simply plopping down on the couch when their favorite show airs, as the Web offers them different ways (both legally and not-so-legally) to see their favorite programs.</p><p><a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/03/07/mtv-getting-the-hang-of-this-whole-web-video-thing/" rel="bookmark">Continue reading <em>MTV getting the hang of this whole Web video thing</em></a></p><p style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;">&nbsp;</p><p><a href=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/television/news/e3i7234a986fe9b96d9c2a5a7d07ebb0f5f>Read</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/03/07/mtv-getting-the-hang-of-this-whole-web-video-thing/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/forward/847625/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/03/07/mtv-getting-the-hang-of-this-whole-web-video-thing/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a></p>]]></description><category>consumers</category><category>content</category><category>edit</category><category>embed</category><category>online</category><category>video</category><category>watch</category><category>web 2.o</category><dc:creator>Adam Finley</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2007 18:05:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>MTV orders first drama in five years</title><link>http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/02/27/mtv-orders-first-drama-in-five-years/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/02/27/mtv-orders-first-drama-in-five-years/</guid><comments>http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/02/27/mtv-orders-first-drama-in-five-years/#comments</comments><description><![CDATA[<p>Filed under: <a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/category/drama/" rel="tag">Other Drama Shows</a>, <a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/category/mtv/" rel="tag">MTV</a>, <a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/category/pickups-and-renewals/" rel="tag">Pickups and Renewals</a></p><img width="200" vspace="4" hspace="4" height="251" border="0" align="right" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.tvsquad.com/media/2007/02/daniellesavre.jpg"  alt="danielle savre" />MTV may finally be backing away from its plethora of reality programs, which are all beginning to see a decline in ratings. The network has given the greenlight to - gasp! - a drama. It's the first scripted series for the network in five long years.<br /><br />The half-hour drama is called <em>Kaya</em> and it's about a teen-age girl who, along with her band members, becomes a rock star. This is a little more along the lines of the whole music television theme, unlike the mid-1990s teen angst drama, <em>My So-Called Life</em>. In case you were wondering, the last scripted series to air on MTV were 2002's <em>Undressed</em> and 2001's <em>2Gether</em>.<br /><br />Danielle Savre has signed on to star in <em>Kaya</em>. You may remember her as 'Jackie Wilcox' from her brief run as the cheerleader-who-got-killed-instead-of-Claire on <em>Heroes</em>.<p style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;">&nbsp;</p><p><a href=http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117960166.html?categoryid=14&amp;cs=1>Read</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/02/27/mtv-orders-first-drama-in-five-years/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/forward/842136/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/02/27/mtv-orders-first-drama-in-five-years/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a></p>]]></description><category>danielle savre</category><category>DanielleSavre</category><category>kaya</category><category>my so-called life</category><category>scripted</category><dc:creator>Anna Johns</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 27 Feb 2007 19:49:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Say goodbye to Oliver, but did you love or hate him?</title><link>http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/02/21/say-goodbye-to-oliver-but-did-you-love-or-hate-him/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/02/21/say-goodbye-to-oliver-but-did-you-love-or-hate-him/</guid><comments>http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/02/21/say-goodbye-to-oliver-but-did-you-love-or-hate-him/#comments</comments><description><![CDATA[<p>Filed under: <a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/category/comedy/" rel="tag">Other Comedy Shows</a>, <a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/category/abc/" rel="tag">ABC</a>, <a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/category/fox/" rel="tag">FOX</a>, <a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/category/cbs/" rel="tag">CBS</a>, <a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/category/the-o-c/" rel="tag">The O.C.</a>, <a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/category/syndicated/" rel="tag">Syndicated</a>, <a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/category/the-cw/" rel="tag">The CW</a>, <a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/category/mtv/" rel="tag">MTV</a></p><p><img height="200" alt="Oliver Trask is a despised TV character. " hspace="4" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.tvsquad.com/media/2007/02/olivertrask.jpg" width="150" align="right" vspace="4" border="0" />The day is closer upon us. The end of <em>The O.C</em>. will come to our screens tomorrow night.. The originator and main reason why the development floodgates of Hollywood were opened to introduce us to programming such as <em>Laguna Beach </em>and other bad teen shows based on excess and other items of unimportance. <br /><br />Although there are many broken hearted <span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">O.C. </span>fans amongst us, we aren't that upset to see a character like Oliver Trask off into oblivion. He was able to exude as much hate that a writer could place on a single character, and I am personally glad to see him go. </p><p><a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/02/21/say-goodbye-to-oliver-but-did-you-love-or-hate-him/" rel="bookmark">Continue reading <em>Say goodbye to Oliver, but did you love or hate him?</em></a></p><p style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;">&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/02/21/say-goodbye-to-oliver-but-did-you-love-or-hate-him/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/forward/817804/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/02/21/say-goodbye-to-oliver-but-did-you-love-or-hate-him/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a></p>]]></description><category>AOL</category><category>Kimmy Gibbler</category><category>Oliver Trask</category><category>OliverTrask</category><category>Steve Urkel</category><category>Television</category><category>TV Characters</category><dc:creator>Elizabeth Chan</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 21 Feb 2007 19:27:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Kelly Osbourne reveals family member's HIV status</title><link>http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/02/19/kelly-osbourne-reveals-family-members-hiv-status/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/02/19/kelly-osbourne-reveals-family-members-hiv-status/</guid><comments>http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/02/19/kelly-osbourne-reveals-family-members-hiv-status/#comments</comments><description><![CDATA[<p>Filed under: <a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/category/reality/" rel="tag">Other Reality Shows</a>, <a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/category/celebrities/" rel="tag">Celebrities</a>, <a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/category/mtv/" rel="tag">MTV</a></p><img width="200" vspace="4" hspace="4" height="269" border="0" align="right" alt="Kelly Osbourne HIV education" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.tvsquad.com/media/2007/02/osbourne.jpg" />Reality TV veteran <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/news/na/paOsbourneMon03OsbourneHIV.html">Kelly Osbourne announced</a> at a HIV/AIDS charity event in north London that a member of her family has been diagnosed as HIV positive. Photographers on the scene reported that Osbourne fought back tears as she left the stage. There has been no comment from any the Osbournes following the announcement.<br /><br /><em>For more information about Body and Soul, the HIV charity organization Kelly was supporting, you can check out <a href="http://www.bodyandsoulcharity.org/">Body and Soul's website</a>. For general information on HIV/AIDS, visit the National Institute of Health's <a href="http://aidsinfo.nih.gov/">HIV and AIDS information site</a>.</em><p style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;">&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/02/19/kelly-osbourne-reveals-family-members-hiv-status/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/forward/800670/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/02/19/kelly-osbourne-reveals-family-members-hiv-status/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a></p>]]></description><category>AIDS</category><category>benefit</category><category>Body and Soul</category><category>charity</category><category>HIV</category><category>HIV-positive</category><category>Kelly Osbourne</category><category>Osbourne</category><category>Ozzy</category><dc:creator>Julia Ward</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 19 Feb 2007 14:03:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>TRL isn't going anywhere</title><link>http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/02/16/trl-isnt-going-anywhere/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/02/16/trl-isnt-going-anywhere/</guid><comments>http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/02/16/trl-isnt-going-anywhere/#comments</comments><description><![CDATA[<p>Filed under: <a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/category/industry/" rel="tag">Industry</a>, <a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/category/music-and-variety/" rel="tag">Music and Variety</a>, <a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/category/mtv/" rel="tag">MTV</a></p><p><img  height="152" alt="MTV" hspace="4" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.tvsquad.com/media/2007/02/mtttv.gif" width="200" align="right" vspace="4" border="0" />Like many of you, I love music, and I think we can all agree that the best way to listen to our favorite music is to have total strangers interrupt a song, and for the song to never play in its entirety. MTV understood this need, and that's why they gave us <em>Total Request Live</em> (or <em>TRL</em> as the cool kids call it).</p>
<p>In the wake of an announcement by Viacom that it would be cutting nearly 250 jobs from its music networks, <a href="http://www.jossip.com/gossip/mtv/breaking-trl-is-canceled-vanessa-minnillo-to-become-fulltime-celebutante-20070214.php">rumors</a> began to <a href="http://www.jossip.com/gossip/mtv/breaking-trl-is-canceled-vanessa-minnillo-to-become-fulltime-celebutante-20070214.php">circulate</a> that <em>TRL</em> would be taken off the air, but according to a rep from MTV, those rumors are not true. Regardless, <em>TRL</em> has seen a decline as of late, and <em>Variety</em> reports that interactive sites like YouTube and MySpace are partly to blame, as they provide a more personal mode of interactivity. </p><p><a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/02/16/trl-isnt-going-anywhere/" rel="bookmark">Continue reading <em>TRL isn't going anywhere</em></a></p><p style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;">&nbsp;</p><p><a href=http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117959525.html?categoryid=14&amp;cs=1>Read</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/02/16/trl-isnt-going-anywhere/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/forward/754562/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/02/16/trl-isnt-going-anywhere/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a></p>]]></description><category>layoffs</category><category>mtv</category><category>total request live</category><category>trl</category><category>viacom</category><dc:creator>Adam Finley</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 16 Feb 2007 08:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>MTV to offer embeddable videos</title><link>http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/02/14/mtv-to-offer-embeddable-videos/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/02/14/mtv-to-offer-embeddable-videos/</guid><comments>http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/02/14/mtv-to-offer-embeddable-videos/#comments</comments><description><![CDATA[<p>Filed under: <a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/category/music-and-variety/" rel="tag">Music and Variety</a>, <a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/category/web/" rel="tag">Web</a>, <a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/category/mtv/" rel="tag">MTV</a></p><p><img height="187" alt="MTV" hspace="4" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.tvsquad.com/media/2007/02/mtvgyghg.jpg" width="250" align="right" vspace="4" border="0" />In the wake of Viacom's demand that all of its content be removed from YouTube and Google Video, another one of the company's properties will be offering embeddable online videos: MTV. Comedy Central began offering the same not too long ago, and it would be nice if the rest of the dominoes would fall and everyone would automatically equip all online videos with this function. Of course, that probably gets into some kind of legal mumbo jumbo that might cause my brain to explode, and if I can remember one thing my mother told me, it's this: "son, I am not going to clean your brains off the wall because you thought too hard about something."</p>
<p>CNET <a href="http://news.com.com/MTV+online+strategy+to+help+Viacom+take+on+YouTube/2100-1026_3-6158872.html?tag=nefd.top">reports</a> that Viacom is trying to catch up to this whole "Web 2.0" thing, and that it has not ruled out the possibility of partnering with YouTube sometime in the future.</p>
<p>Look for these new videos to appear on all of MTV's sites over the next few months.</p><p style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;">&nbsp;</p><p><a href=http://news.com.com/MTV+online+strategy+to+help+Viacom+take+on+YouTube/2100-1026_3-6158872.html?tag=nefd.top>Read</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/02/14/mtv-to-offer-embeddable-videos/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/forward/753531/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/02/14/mtv-to-offer-embeddable-videos/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a></p>]]></description><category>embed</category><category>mtv</category><category>viacom</category><category>video</category><category>web</category><category>web 2.0</category><category>youtube</category><dc:creator>Adam Finley</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 14 Feb 2007 13:33:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Bam Margera weds; Vincent Margera stands trial</title><link>http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/02/06/bam-margera-weds-vincent-margera-stands-trial/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/02/06/bam-margera-weds-vincent-margera-stands-trial/</guid><comments>http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/02/06/bam-margera-weds-vincent-margera-stands-trial/#comments</comments><description><![CDATA[<p>Filed under: <a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/category/reality/" rel="tag">Other Reality Shows</a>, <a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/category/celebrities/" rel="tag">Celebrities</a>, <a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/category/mtv/" rel="tag">MTV</a></p><img width="245" vspace="4" hspace="4" height="227" border="0" align="right" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.tvsquad.com/media/2007/02/bammargera.jpg" alt="Bam Margera and Don Vito" />It was a busy week at the Margera estate. <a href="http://www.salon.com/wire/ap/archive.html?wire=D8N214IG2.html">Vincent "Don Vito" Margera</a>, Bam's uncle and co-star on <em>Viva La Bam</em>, was ordered to stand trial on felony charges that he groped three girls at a public appearance. If convicted, Uncle Don could face up to six years in prison. That's unfortunate news so let's move on to the good stuff.<br /><br />Professional jackass <a href="http://tv.yahoo.com/news/article/urn:newsml:tv.ap.org:20070206:people_bam_margera__ER:1;_ylt=AviY9JmiIP.1A7wbfU5rwT76o9EF">Bam got married to childhood pal Missy Rothstein</a> this weekend. The couple wed in front of 350 friends, family and MTV crew members. The wedding will be televised in April as the culminating episode of forthcoming reality show <em>Bam's Unholy Union</em>. Putting in appearances at the wedding were Tony Hawk and James Iha, formerly of the Smashing Pumpkins. Best of all, Iggy Pop performed as part of the festivities. Hot damn. That so beats <a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/2006/12/18/how-much-for-an-american-idol-to-appear-at-your-party/">hiring a fallen American Idol to play at your bar mitzvah</a>. Do you think the bride came down the aisle to "I Wanna Be Your Dog" or "Search and Destroy?"<p style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;">&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/02/06/bam-margera-weds-vincent-margera-stands-trial/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/forward/748848/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/02/06/bam-margera-weds-vincent-margera-stands-trial/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a></p>]]></description><category>Bam's Unholy Union</category><category>ceremony</category><category>Don Vito</category><category>felony</category><category>groping</category><category>Iggy Pop</category><category>James Iha</category><category>Margera</category><category>Missy Rothstein</category><category>Tony Hawk</category><category>Viva La Bam</category><category>wedding</category><dc:creator>Julia Ward</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 06 Feb 2007 11:14:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Gideon Yago leaving MTV</title><link>http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/01/27/gideon-yago-leaving-mtv/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/01/27/gideon-yago-leaving-mtv/</guid><comments>http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/01/27/gideon-yago-leaving-mtv/#comments</comments><description><![CDATA[<p>Filed under: <a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/category/music-and-variety/" rel="tag">Music and Variety</a>, <a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/category/celebrities/" rel="tag">Celebrities</a>, <a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/category/mtv/" rel="tag">MTV</a></p><em><img width="200" vspace="4" hspace="4" height="300" border="0" align="right" alt="Gideon Yago" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.tvsquad.com/media/2007/01/gideon.jpg" />MTV News'</em> Gideon Yago is bidding the network adieu to pursue "creative ventures" on the Left Coast. Yago has been one of the slightly more tolerable voices of <em>MTV News</em> for the past seven years, but a screenplay sale to Focus Features has him packing his bags. <br /><br /><a href="http://idolator.com/tunes/top/breaking-gideon-yago-leaving-mtv-231893.php">Idolator</a> published his farewell note to his co-workers, which included this classy send-off, "I have learned a great many things during my tenure here...There is one lesson, however, that I consider far more valuable than all the others combined: our audience deserves integrity and respect. Growing up in America is a difficult, sometimes traumatic, often alienating, very strange proposition. In between trying to figure out who they are and what matters in life, there is a chorus of parents, teachers, people and pitchmen telling them what to think and what to do...please keep fighting for them and thinking of them in the fine work that you all do."<p><a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/01/27/gideon-yago-leaving-mtv/" rel="bookmark">Continue reading <em>Gideon Yago leaving MTV</em></a></p><p style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;">&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/01/27/gideon-yago-leaving-mtv/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/forward/743371/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/01/27/gideon-yago-leaving-mtv/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a></p>]]></description><category>documentary</category><category>Focus Features</category><category>Gideon Yago</category><category>Idolator</category><category>Iraq</category><category>letter</category><category>MTV News</category><category>programming</category><dc:creator>Julia Ward</dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jan 2007 15:05:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Reality stars hate on the haters online</title><link>http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/01/25/reality-stars-hate-on-the-haters-online/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/01/25/reality-stars-hate-on-the-haters-online/</guid><comments>http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/01/25/reality-stars-hate-on-the-haters-online/#comments</comments><description><![CDATA[<p>Filed under: <a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/category/reality/" rel="tag">Other Reality Shows</a>, <a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/category/web/" rel="tag">Web</a>, <a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/category/celebrities/" rel="tag">Celebrities</a>, <a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/category/mtv/" rel="tag">MTV</a></p><img width="250" vspace="4" hspace="4" height="250" border="0" align="right" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.tvsquad.com/media/2007/01/krish.jpg" alt="Krishtine de Leon" />I guess the confidentiality clause that reality TV participants sign only cover the show's results and not how the participants <span style="font-style: italic;">feel</span> about the show's proceedings. If you're in the market for some meta-commentary on currently airing reality programs, look no further than the dozens of MySpace pages, blogs and Face Book entries kept by various shows' competitors. <br /><br />You can read about why <a href="http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.ListAll&amp;friendID=76801533&amp;MyToken=cd274c9f-30c8-4a68-97cf-8a54c38eed43ML">Dasit</a> skipped out of the <span style="font-style: italic;">Egotrip White Rapper Show's</span> 16-bar challenge ("...had to step before it got too corny...") or what <span style="font-style: italic;">Beauty and the Geek's</span> <a href="http://www.nielshoven.com/">Neils Hoven</a> thinks of the show's editing ("...if anything, people's personalities have been rather<span style="font-style: italic;"> understated</span> so far..."). Despite the wealth of competition, the hands-down best blog entry by a reality show competitor on a currently airing program has to be this <a href="http://guerillabusfare.blogspot.com/2007/01/bring-on-hate-shame-shame-shame.html">Tuesday's screed from <span style="font-style: italic;">I'm from Rolling Stone's </span>Krishtine de Leon</a>.<p><a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/01/25/reality-stars-hate-on-the-haters-online/" rel="bookmark">Continue reading <em>Reality stars hate on the haters online</em></a></p><p style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;">&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/01/25/reality-stars-hate-on-the-haters-online/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/forward/742022/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/01/25/reality-stars-hate-on-the-haters-online/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a></p>]]></description><category>blog entries</category><category>blogs</category><category>criticism</category><category>Dasit</category><category>egotrip</category><category>Facebook</category><category>haters</category><category>I'm from Rolling Stone</category><category>Jann Werner</category><category>Krishtine de Leon</category><category>Lester Bangs</category><category>MySpace</category><category>Neils Hoven</category><category>Rolling Stone</category><category>white rapper show</category><dc:creator>Julia Ward</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jan 2007 15:04:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>The Five: The reality shows you should be watching</title><link>http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/01/21/the-five-the-reality-shows-you-should-be-watching/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/01/21/the-five-the-reality-shows-you-should-be-watching/</guid><comments>http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/01/21/the-five-the-reality-shows-you-should-be-watching/#comments</comments><description><![CDATA[<p>Filed under: <a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/category/reality/" rel="tag">Other Reality Shows</a>, <a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/category/cable/" rel="tag">Cable</a>, <a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/category/oped/" rel="tag">OpEd</a>, <a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/category/the-five/" rel="tag">The Five</a>, <a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/category/the-cw/" rel="tag">The CW</a>, <a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/category/discovery/" rel="tag">Discovery</a>, <a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/category/mtv/" rel="tag">MTV</a>, <a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/category/vh1/" rel="tag">VH1</a></p><img width="274" vspace="4" hspace="4" height="223" border="0" align="right" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.tvsquad.com/media/2007/01/whiterappers.jpg" alt="ego trip's white rapper show persia and john brown" />Reality shows are an easy target. At their worst, they combine narcissistic competitors in a state of arrested development with manipulative editing and piss poor production values. They are base, coarse, often times racist and tedious beyond belief. They bring out the worst in us - our collective desire to see other people humiliated.<br /><br />Fortunately, all reality shows are not the same. I mean, would Tim Gunn be involved in anything that wasn't a class act? Shows like <em>Project Runway</em> and, to some extent, <em>The Amazing Race</em> redeem an otherwise unfortunate genre littered with wife-swaps, cat fights, strangers picked to live in a house and competitive testicle eating. There is plenty of good among the bad, and in my neck of the woods, certain reality shows are as much "must see TV" as any scripted program. I'm looking for the same thing in both anyway - emotional truth.<p><a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/01/21/the-five-the-reality-shows-you-should-be-watching/" rel="bookmark">Continue reading <em>The Five: The reality shows you should be watching</em></a></p><p style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;">&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/01/21/the-five-the-reality-shows-you-should-be-watching/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/forward/739396/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/01/21/the-five-the-reality-shows-you-should-be-watching/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a></p>]]></description><category>american chopper</category><category>beauty and the geek</category><category>bravo</category><category>ego trip</category><category>made</category><category>mark burnett</category><category>O.C.C.</category><category>Paul Jr.</category><category>Paul Sr.</category><category>PaulJr.</category><category>PaulSr.</category><category>top chef</category><category>white rapper's show</category><dc:creator>Julia Ward</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 21 Jan 2007 10:09:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Burnett to produce a live version of the MTV Movie Awards</title><link>http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/01/15/burnett-to-produce-a-live-version-of-the-mtv-movie-awards/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/01/15/burnett-to-produce-a-live-version-of-the-mtv-movie-awards/</guid><comments>http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/01/15/burnett-to-produce-a-live-version-of-the-mtv-movie-awards/#comments</comments><description><![CDATA[<p>Filed under: <a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/category/industry/" rel="tag">Industry</a>, <a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/category/music-and-variety/" rel="tag">Music and Variety</a>, <a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/category/celebrities/" rel="tag">Celebrities</a>, <a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/category/mtv/" rel="tag">MTV</a></p><img width="200" vspace="4" hspace="4" height="300" border="0" align="right" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.tvsquad.com/media/2007/01/mtv-movie-awards.jpg" alt="MTV Movie Awards Jessica Abel" />The king of all mind-numbingly addictive media Mark Burnett has been <a href="http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117957184.html?categoryid=-1&amp;cs=1">signed by MTV to produce this year's MTV Movie Awards</a>. Ratings for the annual masturbatory celebration of mainstream media and young Hollywood have been slipping for the past several years. MTV is hoping that Burnett, who has never produced an award's show before, will shake things up. His first step in that direction - airing the show live. While Burnett will keep the zany movie parodies and kooky categories, he's trying to turn down the slick and get the stars to go "off-prompter." Burnett and MTV are also talking about upping the buzzworthiness of the program by incorporating user-generated content into the proceedings.<p><a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/01/15/burnett-to-produce-a-live-version-of-the-mtv-movie-awards/" rel="bookmark">Continue reading <em>Burnett to produce a live version of the MTV Movie Awards</em></a></p><p style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;">&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/01/15/burnett-to-produce-a-live-version-of-the-mtv-movie-awards/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/forward/735919/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/01/15/burnett-to-produce-a-live-version-of-the-mtv-movie-awards/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a></p>]]></description><category>awards shows</category><category>Mark Burnett</category><category>movie parodies</category><category>MTV Movie Awards</category><category>Oscars</category><dc:creator>Julia Ward</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jan 2007 11:04:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>I'm from Rolling Stone's online writing contest</title><link>http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/01/11/im-from-rolling-stones-online-writing-contest/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/01/11/im-from-rolling-stones-online-writing-contest/</guid><comments>http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/01/11/im-from-rolling-stones-online-writing-contest/#comments</comments><description><![CDATA[<p>Filed under: <a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/category/reality/" rel="tag">Other Reality Shows</a>, <a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/category/web/" rel="tag">Web</a>, <a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/category/mtv/" rel="tag">MTV</a></p><img width="210" vspace="4" hspace="4" height="210" border="0" align="right" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.tvsquad.com/media/2007/01/rollingstone.jpg" alt="I'm from Rolling Stone content" />Cops hate cop shows. Doctors hate doctor shows. Comedy writers hate <em>Studio 60</em>, and the media is loving to hate <em>I'm from Rolling Stone</em>. Everyone from <a href="http://idolator.com/tunes/tv/idolator-presents-the-im-from-rolling-stone-episode-guide-226930.php">Idolator</a> to <a href="http://salon.com/ent/tv/iltw/2007/01/07/dirt/">Salon</a> is lining up to spank <em>Rolling Stone</em> editor Jann Wenner and his ridiculous charges, but that's just because they're jealous. When they started out as interns back in the day, they didn't get to rock the red carpet events and see their bylines the next day. They chose the path of hard work to achieve their journalistic dreams when they should have chosen the far more lucrative and entertaining path of reality television. <br /><br />You don't have to repeat those bitter journalists' mistakes. You can choose a path somewhere in between. <em>I'm from Rolling Stone </em>has started an <a href="http://www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/archives/im_from_rolling_stone/2007_Jan_09_writing_contest">online writing contest</a>.<p><a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/01/11/im-from-rolling-stones-online-writing-contest/" rel="bookmark">Continue reading <em>I'm from Rolling Stone's online writing contest</em></a></p><p style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;">&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/01/11/im-from-rolling-stones-online-writing-contest/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/forward/733913/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/01/11/im-from-rolling-stones-online-writing-contest/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a></p>]]></description><category>blogs</category><category>contest</category><category>editor</category><category>I'm from Rolling Stone</category><category>Idolator</category><category>Jann Werner</category><category>journalists</category><category>Krystal</category><category>local music</category><category>music</category><category>Rolling Stone</category><category>Salon</category><category>writing assignment</category><dc:creator>Julia Ward</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2007 18:31:00 EST</pubDate></item></channel></rss>