
MTV’s Punk’d and Jersey Shore offshoot The Pauly D Project got off to a solid start last night, though they could’ve probably done better with the title recognition and star power involved. Punk’d drew a 2.7 persons 12-34 rating and 3.2 million total viewers in its premiere at 10 PM, and Pauly D garnered a 2.72 12-34 rating and 2.9 million total viewers at 10:30. While Pauly D‘s audience was down 62% from the viewership for the most recent season premiere of Jersey Shore, it still ranked as the No. 2 cable program last night in 12-34 behind Punk’d.
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Watched Punk’d, and felt the format needs work. Waaay too much focus on the celebrity pranker/host and not enough on the prankee/stunt itself. Punk’d used to be so great because the stunts were elaborate and went on for awhile and we got to see a celebrity’s natural, real world reactions to a crazy event. Now though, the prank lasts like 5 seconds, we get a couple shots of the celeb victim, and then you blink and it’s over, all the while they show too much behind the scenes and too much of the host and the process. I’m hoping it was just this way due to Bieber and people thinking they have to show him the whole time (which they don’t, unless your audience is 12-year old girls). Hopefully the future episodes will be better and the stunt last longer and the victim get shown more.
Two point nine million for Pauly D? Well, there are at least 2.9 million idiots in the world.
Yet more garbage being spewed on Moron TV…glad these shows didn’t do well and hope they get CXLed soon enough.
the show is 100 percent scripted.
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I definitely did not like pauly d project… I was expecting more… What a Nice guy f’**ing a different girl every night! Poor guy I can’t imagine how many deseases he may have.. Puke
i watched 5 minutes of pauly d project and turned it off, that show really sucks. i live at the jersey shore and mtv gives us a bad name, we’re not guidos, we dont get with everyone, quite frankly everyone around here thinks dirty. Seaside is the crappiest beach in jersey, thank god they placed the show in sleeaside instead of a classy beach. Although, punk’d is still awesome… still miss ashton though =( . MTV will never be the same as it was growing up…unfortuntely now its just jersey shore, and not so much skating or anything. it went from bam/ jackass crew to rob dydrek who isnt funny at all. miss andy milonakis, jay and silent bob, celebr…damn now all mtv has on is smuts having sex all day and night or teen pregnancy.