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MTV Renews ‘Catfish’ For Second Season

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Wednesday December 19, 2012 @ 12:52pm PSTTags: Catfish, MTV, Philippe Dauman

Just over a month after it debuted, MTV announced today that Catfish: The TV Show will be coming back for a second season in 2013. Based on the 2010 documentary Catfish, the show debuted on November 12. Last month Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman singled out the 11 PM premiere of Catfish: The TV Show as having had ”the highest-rated launch in MTV history.” With Nev Schulman, whose own online love drama was the basis of the 2010 doc, and filmmaker Max Joseph as hosts, Catfish: The TV Show “aims to tackle “the mystery and complexities of dating in a digital world,” according to MTV. New episodes of the show will start airing on January 7, 2013.

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Reason #891 Why Film Directors Get Gigs

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday October 19, 2011 @ 4:29am PDTTags: Catfish, Paranormal Activity 3

Co-director Ariel Schulman explains how Catfish got him the Paranormal Activity 3 gig. Oh, to have been a fly on the wall of this studio meeting:

HuffPo: Can you talk about how you and Joost took the reins of this new Paranormal Activity film?
Schulman: Catfish had a lot to do

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MTV Picks Up 6 New Series: Craig Wright & Bo Burnham Comedies, 4 Unscripted

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday September 16, 2011 @ 12:45pm PDTTags: Catfish, Chris Linn, Craig Wright, David Janollari, MTV
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MTV is beefing up its original slate with six new series: Craig Wright’s ensemble comedy Underemployed, comedy Zach Stone Is Gonna Be Famous co-created by and starring hot young comedian Bo Burnham, and four reality and docu-series: Catfish, based on … Read More »

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New Trailer: ‘Catfish’

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Saturday July 31, 2010 @ 12:21pm PDTTags: Catfish, Video

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Sundance Hit ‘Catfish’ To Become Reality Series Via Tom Forman’s RelativityReal

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday July 19, 2010 @ 2:12pm PDTTags: Catfish, Documentary, RelativityReal, Tom Forman, Unscripted, Unscripted TV
Nellie Andreeva

I hear top unscripted producer Tom Forman, CEO of RelativityReal, is taking out a reality series project based on this year’s hit Sundance documentary Catfish, which is being distributed by Relativity Media’s Rogue Pictures. There is significant interest in the unscripted format, a segmented doc series revolving around … Read More »

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Netflix Sets Streaming Deal With Relativity (…Which Now Wants To Self-Distribute)

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Monday July 5, 2010 @ 7:35pm PDTTags: Catfish, Internet, My Soul to Take, Netflix, Netflix Online Streaming, Netflix Straming Deal, Pay TV Channels, Pay-TV, Relativity Media, Relativity Media Netflix, Ryan Kavanaugh, Season of the Witch, Skyline, The Fighter

2ND UPDATE: I’ve just learned that Relativity Media will be in the distribution business sooner rather than later as it attempts to become a mini-major. Hmm.

UPDATE: relativity mediaThis exclusive deal with Netflix might be impressive if more of Relativity … Read More »

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