
MTV has greenlighted a sixth season of reality juggernaut Jersey Shore, which appears to be scaling back to one edition a year. Production on Season 6 is slated to begin in the summer in Seaside Heights, NJ. In the last two years, MTV filmed one cycle of the show a year with the cast in their natural environment on the Jersey Shore during summer/fall and one in a warmer locale during winter/spring, including Miami and Italy. Now Season 5 and Season 6 are both set in NJ, with the upcoming sixth cycle focusing on the pregnancy and engagement of star Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi, who also has a spinoff MTV series, as does Paul “Pauly D” DelVecchio (His premieres March 29, following the premiere of the Punk’d reboot). While beginning to show ratings declines, Jersey Shore continues to be a young-demo blockbuster, ranking as the No. 1 cable series in 2012 among persons 12-34. Season 5 is averaging a 7.4 persons 12-34 rating and 7.9 million total viewers in Live+7 ratings. Jersey Shore is executive produced by SallyAnn Salsano from 495 Prods.
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Quick! Send Snooki to promo boot camp! And get her rotating in gen pop, stat!
Soooooo MTV is gonna pay everyone their $100,000+ per episode fee again? I thought they already decided they were going to reboot the show after the current season. Apparently not.
BEST SHOW EVA OH YEAH RENEWAL YEAH
I’m thrilled. Hopefully all the questions left over from this season will be answered!
Love this show!
For those hoping for a complete cast clear-out, there is still hope.
The announcement is that the show will be returning, but there is no mention of the cast returning. Besides, there is supposed to be a surprise announcement during the reunion episode this week, and it can’t be Snooki’s pregnancy because that wouldn’t be a surprise.
My bet is they’re announcing that they’re leaving the show.
They should do an episode where they all dress and talk like the cast of Downton Abbey.
I was one of those people who swore up and down Jersey Shore was going to be done! Boy was I wrong. On second thought I am glad it is returning, even though it started getting boring. Now that Snooki is pregnant, should be a bit different in a good way. I just watched the finale on my computer. I missed it last Thursday since I was working late. Luckily I used DISH Online to instantly catch up right on my computer. I’ll still watch the show regardless, it’s addicting.
Congrats MTV!!! Another nail in the coffin towards the demise of this country. Wow so sad to hear thats all the ‘creative team’ could come up with after all those meetings…..so so sad. What a joke.