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MTV announced four new unscripted series — including one series about virgins — plus a renewal of its scripted high school series “Awkward”.

The cable channel made the announcements on Monday. The four new unscripted shows include two cooking-competition shows, a docu-series about virgins, and a series showcasing couples who have broken up and now want to right perceived wrongs.
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Two of the shows are slated for prime-time, while the other two are being designed for weekday afternoons, MTV said.

One of the prospective prime-time shows is the virgin show, which has no title yet. Instead, it is referred to only as “Untitled Virgin Project.” MTV’s press release spins the series this way: “This series follows the lives of young adults trying to maneuver the often tricky world of virginity which includes messy love lives, awkward parental sex talks, sexually active friends, and the pressure to give in to their temptations — all of which can make for a very tumultuous journey.

“Throughout each episode of this hour-long weekly show, MTV will explore the stories of different v-card-carrying cast members across the country, all dealing with the overwhelming question of keeping their virginity or losing it. The series will be supported with informational resources from MTV’s Emmy and Peabody-winning “It’s Your (Sex) Life” campaign, which empowers young people to make better decisions about their sexual health.”

The other prime-time entry is one of the cooking shows. It’s called “MTV’s House of Food,” and it will have a group of young aspiring chefs living in a house together and attending a culinary school. In the end, one of them will win a prize described by MTV as an “apprenticeship of a lifetime.”

The other food show is one of the new afternoon shows, “Snackdown,” which comes from MTV reality star and entrepreneur Rob Dyrdek. A cash prize awaits the winner of this competition in which the contestants will be challenged to create new, unique snacks (otherwise known as “munchies”). Judging from the MTV press release, this one figures to be more free-wheeling than the evening cooking show.

Finally, the fourth new show is called “The Ex and the Why” (a clever title, we think) and it will be a daily half-hour in afternoons in which couples whose relationships ended badly get to make up for the bad breakups and possibly rekindle their affection.

As for “Awkward,” that show is getting a fourth season.

The four new unscripted shows will debut next year, MTV said (without offering anything more specific than that concerning their premiere dates). “Awkward” still has to finish up the second half of its third season, which is due to commence in October, MTV said. Season Four will start next year.


http://xfinity.comcast.net/blogs/tv/2013...newing-awkward/

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demonstrates why they should change their moniker.

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One of the prospective prime-time shows is the virgin show, which has no title yet. Instead, it is referred to only as “Untitled Virgin Project.” MTV’s press release spins the series this way: “This series follows the lives of young adults trying to maneuver the often tricky world of virginity which includes messy love lives, awkward parental sex talks, sexually active friends, and the pressure to give in to their temptations — all of which can make for a very tumultuous journey.

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MTV still exists??

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MTV still exists??

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Get off my lawn!

MTV stands for pop culture more than it does for music. Also, YouTube killed MTV more than anything else.

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Catfish is a good show, however it's becoming less believable because of how easy it is to communicate face to face with someone through the internet/cell phone (facetime, skype, etc..)

Catfish would have been an AMAZING show 15 years ago.

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Catfish is a good show, however it's becoming less believable because of how easy it is to communicate face to face with someone through the internet/cell phone (facetime, skype, etc..)

Catfish would have been an AMAZING show 15 years ago.

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What's the premise?

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Catfish is a good show, however it's becoming less believable because of how easy it is to communicate face to face with someone through the internet/cell phone (facetime, skype, etc..)

Catfish would have been an AMAZING show 15 years ago.

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What's the premise?

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Internet relationships.

Bascially one person in an online couple emails the host and says that they love so and so but really want to find out who they are, and usually the host can arrange a meet up.

It usually ends in the person finding out that it's not who they thought it was, sometimes it's someone they know, or it's someone who has their own set of problems.

I haven't seen every episode, but there were a few that were a great watch. The guy who hosts the show and the guy that helps him are really good.

For instance, there was a girl who came to Nev (the host) because she wanted to finally meet this guy she had been having an online relationship with. The girl was actually pretty cute, and the guy claimed to be some model Turns out it was a very young girl, who was doing this because she was a victim of bullying, it was her way of taking it out on someone. The 2 end of talking and working things out and I belive they stayed as friends.

Like I said though, with how easy it is to get a video feed of someone with all the social media and phone cameras, I just have a hard time believing people fall for other people without confirmation like that.

In the mid-to-late 90s that show would have been so amazing.

* Being "catfished" is what they call it when you get duped. That's why I have a hard time believing that whole Manti Te'o story.

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Indeed. But these people are usually alienated in real life, so they may take a lot more leaps of faith if they believe a person likes them and just be ignorant to the logic.

It's on tomorrow night at 10 PM if anyone is interested

Also, music videos are no longer profitable so it doesn't make sense to have a network dedicated just to them.

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Cheap to produce reality TV is one of the worst things to happen to TV. You don't need talented writers ...... you don't need talented actors ..... you just need people willing to make complete asses of themselves in front of a TV audience. Once this was restricted to the Springer show ..... but not any longer. The only difference is the setting and premise. The idiocy remains consistent.

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We've had some of the best TV shows ever pop over the last decade. The same time reality TV has come up. You just have to know where to look.

There are good shows on, who cares about the programming on the channels you don't watch?

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We've had some of the best TV shows ever pop over the last decade. The same time reality TV has come up. You just have to know where to look.

There are good shows on, who cares about the programming on the channels you don't watch?

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Because I still have to pay for the crap channels in order to get the channels I want.

I wouldn't care if I could get a discounted rate for 10-15 channels of my choice. Unfortunately, I can't ...... and most reality TV is just space filler on networks that I would just as soon not have, and would just as soon not pay for.

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This is a true statement. The programming on MTV is the low of the low and most of it is crap that you wonder how it got on TV in the first place. I think the last time I watched MTV was when they had a good movie on or when they did Pop Up Video.

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No offense, but who cares.

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You did enough to read and respond.