jrs
03-04-03, 11:24 AM
Quote from Corona's Test Pattern
Monday, March 3rd, 2003...MTV is set to debut five new shows (roughly the same number of videos the network now airs in a day) this spring and summer, adding to a lineup that currently favors reality programming and the 12- to 24-year-old viewing audience.
Following stints as narrator and producer of the top-selling adult films Diary of a Pimp and Doggystyle, and as the inaugural guest host for ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live, Snoop Dogg will return to MTV as host of his own variety show, Doggy Fizzle Televizzle. The show, which first aired in December 2002, will feature sketches, musical performances, reality bits, pranks and parodies, and begins a six-episode run on June 22nd.
Also pranking it up on MTV this spring is That '70s Show's Ashton Kutcher, who will try to give Jamie Kennedy a run for his money with Punk'd, a show Kutcher co-created. Punk'd has Kutcher playing pranks on celebrity friends like Justin Timberlake, and premieres on March 17th.
For MTV's female viewers and fans of last year's Blue Crush, there's Surf Girls, a half-hour reality show produced in conjunction with surfing power-brand Roxy by Quiksilver that follows 15 contestants to top surfing locations around the world as they compete for a professional sponsorship deal. The show debuts on May 12th.
And finally, it's official: Total Request Live has become a franchise. MTV has created two new shows under the TRL banner - TRL Presents: Duets, which will give fans a chance to record a duet with TRL staple artists like Usher, Vanessa Carlton, B2K and Blink-182, and TRL At Your School Week, which will feature a variety of high school- and vaguely music-themed events. Duets premieres on May 5th while At Your School is scheduled to run from April 14th to 18th.
As always, MTV will also debut new installments of its long-running reality series just as the network television season is winding down. Road Rules XII: South Pacific premieres first, on May 26th, followed by Real World: Paris on June 3rd.
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Ok now, this is what MTV has sunk to? I can't believe how a network - the name "MTV Music Television" has degraded itself to such crap over the past years.
It started (forgot exactly when ) with a game show called "Remote Control". It was cute. Passable. But then things grew....program after program. heck man, it's MUSIC Television not crap televison. Shows like Real World, Road Rules, Mtv's Spring Break, Jerry Springer Spring Break, Mtv's Fashion (something) , etc... and etc.... all unnecessary
MTV has lost its roots. Thank god for MTV2!
Monday, March 3rd, 2003...MTV is set to debut five new shows (roughly the same number of videos the network now airs in a day) this spring and summer, adding to a lineup that currently favors reality programming and the 12- to 24-year-old viewing audience.
Following stints as narrator and producer of the top-selling adult films Diary of a Pimp and Doggystyle, and as the inaugural guest host for ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live, Snoop Dogg will return to MTV as host of his own variety show, Doggy Fizzle Televizzle. The show, which first aired in December 2002, will feature sketches, musical performances, reality bits, pranks and parodies, and begins a six-episode run on June 22nd.
Also pranking it up on MTV this spring is That '70s Show's Ashton Kutcher, who will try to give Jamie Kennedy a run for his money with Punk'd, a show Kutcher co-created. Punk'd has Kutcher playing pranks on celebrity friends like Justin Timberlake, and premieres on March 17th.
For MTV's female viewers and fans of last year's Blue Crush, there's Surf Girls, a half-hour reality show produced in conjunction with surfing power-brand Roxy by Quiksilver that follows 15 contestants to top surfing locations around the world as they compete for a professional sponsorship deal. The show debuts on May 12th.
And finally, it's official: Total Request Live has become a franchise. MTV has created two new shows under the TRL banner - TRL Presents: Duets, which will give fans a chance to record a duet with TRL staple artists like Usher, Vanessa Carlton, B2K and Blink-182, and TRL At Your School Week, which will feature a variety of high school- and vaguely music-themed events. Duets premieres on May 5th while At Your School is scheduled to run from April 14th to 18th.
As always, MTV will also debut new installments of its long-running reality series just as the network television season is winding down. Road Rules XII: South Pacific premieres first, on May 26th, followed by Real World: Paris on June 3rd.
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Ok now, this is what MTV has sunk to? I can't believe how a network - the name "MTV Music Television" has degraded itself to such crap over the past years.
It started (forgot exactly when ) with a game show called "Remote Control". It was cute. Passable. But then things grew....program after program. heck man, it's MUSIC Television not crap televison. Shows like Real World, Road Rules, Mtv's Spring Break, Jerry Springer Spring Break, Mtv's Fashion (something) , etc... and etc.... all unnecessary
MTV has lost its roots. Thank god for MTV2!