Showing posts with label mtv. Show all posts
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Some of your favorite MTV shows are coming back
Fan favorites Laguna Beach, The Hills and Daria return to MTV for six weeks as part of its new Retro Mania programming block, starting weekday mornings on Monday. June 25 from 9AM to 12PM ET/PT until August 3, 2012. MTV’s Retro Mania includes the drama filled first two seasons of Laguna Beach, the entire fabulous series run of The Hills and a selection of MTV’s favorite episodes across five seasons of the show that featured the coolest and wittiest anti-heroine ever, Daria.
Throughout each week of MTV’s Retro Mania, several guest stars and super celebrity fans provide commentary, interviews and hosting duties in celebration of these shows including Stephen Colletti for Laguna Beach, Audrina Patridge, Lo Bosworth, Stephanie Pratt & MTV's Layla Kayleigh (The Hills superfan) for The Hills, and Nikki Glaser and Sara Schaefer, hosts of the upcoming Nikki & Sara Show, as the superfan Daria commentators.
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Thursday, June 14, 2012
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Saturday, March 10, 2012
Watch all "Daria" episodes online!
You can now watch all "Daria" episodes online at this website. So pumped! I feel like I'll get the humor better as an adult than I did as an 11-year-old.
Sunday, February 26, 2012
Saturday, February 11, 2012
Snooki and Jwoww Get Spin Off Show
An untitled spinoff featuring Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi and Jenni "JWoww" Farley is set to start filming on the mean streets of Jersey City, N.J.
The Associated Press reports that producers have been given filming permits and will begin shooting the series in and around the neighborhood near Jersey City's Grove Street PATH station.
The show's producers were denied a permit to film in nearby Hoboken, N.J., last week, citing quality-of-life concerns for the city's residents, and the inhabitants of Jersey Shore, Pa., didn't want the show there either. But Jersey City's mayor, Jerramiah Healy, sees the filming as a good way to promote the city. Has he seen "Jersey Shore"?
Of course, the question may not be if Snooki and JWoww are good for Jersey City, but if Jersey City is good for Snooki and JWoww. Recent FBI statistics show a slight rise in violent crime there, though local police are claiming a drop in assaults over the same time period.
This week, the Jersey Journal reported on a standing-room-only Jersey City Council meeting where local residents took council members to task over the perceived rise in crime in their city.
The city, nicknamed "Chilltown," lies across the Hudson River from lower Manhattan, and is home to the Colgate Clock, one of the largest timepieces in the world.
To better promote the city, Snooki and JWoww will no doubt take the time to visit Jersey City's many cultural institutions and really put the best face on a beleaguered urban area.
We can all dream, right?
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Thursday, January 12, 2012
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Saturday, November 12, 2011
Has American pop culture become too dumb for Beavis and Butt-Head?
Oh, Butt-Head, if only you knew what was to come.
MTV — the network that first aired "Beavis and Butt-Head," a show many condemned as a celebration of stupidity — has now brought the awkward and offensive teens back with new episodes. Like most mature adult men, I tuned in with nostalgic excitement.
The crudely animated pair sounded the same as always — nasally, mildly profane, wildly immature. They poked fun at music videos and, in a new twist, some of the reality television shows that now dominate MTV's programming.
But it all seemed to fall flat. Gone was the edginess the show had when it first came along and bothered the daylights out of social conservatives who feared it would launch a generation of Satanists and pyromaniacs.
I thought about this for a few minutes. The original "Beavis and Butt-Head" show went off the air more than a decade ago. In the absence of those hormone-addled fools, we've devolved into an entertainment culture focused on Kardashians and Lohans and random people eating buckets of bugs for money.
And then it hit me: Has the world become too stupid for Beavis and Butt-Head?
"Poor Beavis and Butt-Head have been out-dumbed," said Elayne Rapping, a professor of American studies at the University at Buffalo and an expert on media and popular culture. "It just doesn't work anymore. It's not unusual."
And that, at the risk of sounding like a fud, is truly a sad state of affairs.
It's important to remember that, for all its immaturity, "Beavis and Butt-Head" offered up some rather sharp satire of 1990s popular culture. By being incredibly dumb and reckless, the inseparable teens were, in a sense, mocking the often mind-numbing essence of music videos and the whole MTV culture.
"It did have a strong element of social commentary," Rapping said. "Their whole education, such as it was, came from low-level popular culture. But now it's no longer just low-level pop culture that's silly or stupid. It's more and more mainstream culture and politics."
Along with reality television and 24-hour coverage of celebrity foibles, the political world does seem to be adding to our collective dumbing-down. Who can forget the summer of 2009, when disgraced former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich attempted to get the judge in his corruption trial to let him appear on a reality show called "I'm a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here!" (He was denied, so his wife, Patti, went on in his place.)
And at a September speech before students at Liberty University in Virginia, GOP presidential candidate Rick Perry joked about his high school academic performance: "I graduated in the top 10 of my graduating class — of 13." The audience applauded. (sigh)
Thursday, November 3, 2011
Jersey Shore's season five premiere date + Proof that the show is fake?
Here is my previous post with a sneak peak of season five and Pauly D's tanning accident.
The Jersey Shore gang’s return to Seaside now has a premiere date.
The MTV hit will return to its roots on Jan. 5 in its usual Thursdays at 10 p.m. time slot. Last season in Italy averaged an incredible 9.4 million viewers, including those who watched DVR. The audience declined for the first time, however, for the season finale. Will a return to Jersey resume the show’s amazing ratings Karma?
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On that same note... is this solid proof that Jersey Shore is really fake?
Comedian Sean Klitzner cries fowl over this Italian scene claiming the bar brawl is completely fake. The video breaks it down visually, but here are the main components of the argument:
1 – A producer threw the ice, not the bartender: The key to this argument is that the ice comes from the wrong direction, with the camera catching a glimpse of a woman wearing an ear piece. In the slow motion replay, you can even see that woman, presumably a producer, retracting her arm after the ice throw.
2 – The bar was set up for the Snooki attack: Although it's a hopping club, there's no one actually standing at the bar where the showdown happens. In addition, Snooki isn't knocking down expensive bottles of booze. The bar is lined with cheap cocktail mixers.
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Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Why Daria would have a better comeback
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It's been nearly a decade since Daria ended, and, with the protests against economic inequity raging, the GOP debates resembling an undergrad performance art piece, and Dancing with the Stars in its thirteenth season, the world has never seemed sicker and sadder. Which is why — with all due respect to Beavis and Butthead — now is a perfect time for Daria to return to television. Here, we outline the top five reasons why Daria should come back to MTV in lieu of Beavis and Butthead. Cue the ironic "la la la las."
1. TV needs more strong female characters.
Unless you count the sexy bunnies on the recently axed Playboy Club, the sexy stewardesses on Pan Am, or the sexy elderly nymphomaniac housekeepers on American Horror Story, this fall season suffers from a profound lack of non-sexy, non-deranged, non-Whitney Cummings female characters. Young female characters in this vein are in particularly short supply; most of them, like Liz Lemon on 30 Rock or Britta on Community, are already all grown-up.The paucity of strong teenage-girl characters was also apparent when Daria premiered in 1997. If they didn't play volleyball, dance atop a piano, or dissolve into plasma when socially humiliated, teen girls in the '90s were usually plagued by crippling anxiety and low self-esteem (case in point: Full House's D.J. Tanner, who spent entire episodes agonizing over where to sit in the cafeteria and how to make her bangs look as unflattering as humanly possible). Daria did not suffer from D.J. Tanner syndrome. Throughout the series, her character was defined by the mantra articulated in the pilot episode: "I don't have low self-esteem — I just have low self-esteem for everyone else." Like the ferocious honey badger, Daria doesn't care about her social status because Daria doesn't give a shit, which is a lesson that outcasts on shows like MTV's Awkward should take to heart.
2. TV is already crawling with Beavises and Buttheads.
With the success of Jackass, Tosh.0, and movies like Dude, Where's My Car (essentially a live-action B&B for handsomes), the influence of the original Beavis and Butthead on film and TV can't really be understated. In the '90s, Beavis and Butthead's hormonal sensibilities established a permanent foothold in mainstream culture, and while that show's intent was satirical, many of its descendants aren't nearly as smart about being dumb. (Not to say that dumb guys aren't funny, but some variety would be nice.)3. Daria was smart.
Much like Freaks and Geeks, Daria was a show for teenagers that respected the intelligence of its viewers (who at that point had been raised on a steady diet of Fruitopia and Total Request Live). Unlike Beavis and Butthead, which was both about making stupid seem smart and smart seem stupid, Daria never took pot shots at the smart kids, who on the former show were sometimes the butt of the joke when B&B themselves weren't.Daria also didn't prize its heroine's snark over other kinds of intelligence. It celebrated academic achievement (as was the case with Mack and Jodie, two ambitious and popular classmates of Daria's) just as much as it applauded a less obvious intellectual curiosity (as exemplified by Daria's sister Quinn, who turned out to be a pretty insightful chick in the last few seasons).
4. It had sex appeal.
With his tousled hair, abundance of piercings, and frontman status as the lead singer of Mystik Spiral, Jane's enigmatic brother Trent was the Jordan Catalano to Daria's Angela Chase. He was the pretty, air-headed, vaguely damaged bad boy that Daria secretly dreamed of getting to second base with, and teenage girls who watched the show felt the same way. If you were the kind of girl who was a little offbeat and not embarrassed to admit to crushing on a cartoon character, you had a huge crush on Trent; he was to us what Donny Osmond was to closeted Mormon adolescents in 1973.And although her sex appeal was never really the point, Daria herself was something of a hipster pinup as well. Her "look" consisted of basically everything you can imagine a cute barista/Etsy user/aspiring Suicide Girl wearing today: the boots, the glasses, the army jacket, and especially the "I have no interest in that thing between your legs that you claim is a penis" smirk. It was enough to attract the attention of sensitive love interest Tom Sloane in the fourth season, as well as countless fan boys outside the show's fictional universe.
5. It would be timely.
Daria captured the spirit of its times. From the spot-on Fashion Club trends to the awesome soundtrack (featuring consummate '90s artists Beck, Garbage, and Portishead, among others), the animated cels in an episode of Daria dripped with angsty teen spirit. But although the show is noteworthy for its pitch-perfect, '90s sensibilities, there's no reason the creators of Daria couldn't update the show to the present day. Imagine Daria and Jane lampooning trust-fund-baby protestors at Occupy Wall Street, or taking aim at the Snooki/Ronnie dynamic on Jersey Shore. There's an endless parade of public figures who are primed and ready for our withering contempt, and they're making more noise than ever before. Who better than Daria, Jane, and Mystik Spiral to voice our frustrations?Source
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