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MTV has announced two new series focusing on young women in the process of following their heart’s desire, The Alectrix and South Of Heaven (working title). The Alectrix, which debuts on June 4 at 11 PM, follows an all-girl pop-music group seeking a fresh start under the guidance of music manager Joe Simpson. The six-episode series follows the group’s leader Heather Naylor as she and her band mates strive for their big break in the music industry and finally fulfill their dreams of superstardom. The Alectrix is Executive Produced by Naylor and Simpson. Gary Auerbach, Julie Auerbach and Rob Cornick Executive Produce for Go Go Luckey Entertainment. Lesley Goldman Executive Produces for MTV and Tamar Zohar is the Executive in Charge of Production. South Of Heaven (working title) is a new half-hour docu-series following the lives of a group of fun loving girlfriends at the best little honky tonk bar in Texas who are working to make their dreams a reality. It’s set for the fall. South Of Heaven is Executive Produced by Ross Breitenbach and 20 West. Concept by Andy Meyer. The series is Executive Produced by Shannon Fitzgerald, Tiffany Lea Williams and Lesley Goldman for MTV. Tammy Zohar and Brittany Lutz are the Executives in Charge of Production. Check out The Alectrix trailer:
MTV Greenlights ‘The Alectrix’ For June Premiere, ‘South Of Heaven’ For Fall
MTV Movie Awards Set For April 13, 2014
MTV today announced 2014 dates for the MTV Movie Awards (April 13) and MTV Video Music Awards (August 24). The Movie Awards moved up from its traditional June spot this year with an eye on … Read More »
MTV Announces ‘Scream’ Pilot, New Reality Series And ‘Snooki & JWoww’ Renewal
At its upfront today, MTV is announcing a pilot order to a series adaptation of the hit horror film franchise Scream. At the event, held at the Beacon Theatre in New York, the cable network announced new unscripted series Generation Cryo, Nurse Nation as well as The Hook-Up, which Deadline wrote about yesterday. Additionally, Snooki & JWOWW has been renewed for a third season.
MTV is working on Scream with the films’ producer, the Weinsteins’ Dimension Films and former top MTV execs Tony DiSanto and Liz Gateley’s DiGa Vision, which is behind MTV’s Teen Wolf and new reality series Ke$ha: My Crazy Beautiful Life. The project originally landed at MTV almost a year ago, brought in by previous MTV programming head David Janollari. The pilot green light is suprising, given the fact that there is no specific concept or a writer for the adaptation yet. The network recently met with a number of potential writers but didn’t settle on an idea. Still, MTV has big plans for the project, announcing that the potential series already has been slated for a summer 2014 debut. Dimension is in discussions with the films’ original director Wes Craven to direct the pilot.
In other MTV announcements, Nick Cannon’s re-imagined improv comedy show Nick Cannon Presents Wild N Out will premiere on MTV2 on July 9, and MTV2 is adding new series Guy Court to its slate. Here are descriptions of MTV’s newly picked up unscripted series: Read More »
MTV Picks Up Dating Series ‘The Hook-Up’
Almost two decades after the debut of Singled Out, which launched the TV careers of Chris Hardwick and Jenny McCarthy, MTV is betting on another dating show for the 18-34 set. I’ve learned that the network … Read More »
Jonathan Murray On MTV’s ‘The Real World’: NBC Press Day
Ray Richmond contributes to Deadline’s TV coverage.
It’s now been 22 years since Jonathan Murray and his late partner Mary Ellis Bunim created MTV‘s The Real World and thereby unofficially launched the reality television genre in its current form. The show is still on the air, in its astonishing 28th season, and Murray took a few minutes to reminisce this afternoon following a panel for his second-year Oxygen tattoo competition reality series Best Ink. He was asked how long Real World could conceivably run. The short answer: It will definitely see at least a 29th season (currently in pre-production) and has demonstrated that it still has some gas left in the tank after a slow start to Season 28, rising 77% in ratings since its premiere. As for how long Real World can remain on the air, Murray reveals that the question has been posed to him repeatedly over the years. “What I say is, it will be on the air as long as people want to see it,” he says. “We love doing it and every year is a challenge. Every year we come away saying we could have done this better, done that better. But every year we change the location, we tinker with it, we sort of reinvent it every year.” Murray also says he spends little time worrying about where the reality genre is heading. “The good stuff rises, finds an audience, stays on the air,” he stresses. Read More »
Netflix Says It Will Let Viacom Deal Expire
This news nugget was tucked into Netflix‘s letter to investors that CEO Reed Hastings and CFO David Wells released today: They say that at the end of May they won’t renew their broad deal with Viacom Networks … Read More »
‘Awkward’ Slightly Up In Return For Opener High, ‘Deadliest Catch’ Premiere Solid
The season three premiere of MTV’s comedy Awkward last night garnered a 2.3 P12-34 rating for each of the two back-to-back episodes. That was up 5% from the show’s season two premiere and up 35% from … Read More »
MTV Developing Theme Park Drama
In one of the first pieces of development for MTV‘s new regime, the network has tapped young writer Ben Epstein (10 Things I Hate About You) to pen an hourlong project. The show is set … Read More »
MTV Movie Awards Ratings Up Double Digits From 2012
Big winner Jennifer Lawrence didn’t show up at last night’s 2013 MTV Movie Awards and Parks & Recreation’s Aubrey Plaza got thrown out but that didn’t stop viewers from watching. With 3.8 total … Read More »
MTV Says “Not An Easy Decision” To Cancel ‘Buckwild’; Special To Air Sunday
MTV said today it was “not appropriate” to continue with a second season of Buckwild after the death of star Shain Gandee, though the network will air a special, Buckwild: WV To NYC, on April 14. n Tuesday, a week after the 21-year-old reality TV star was discovered dead in West Virginia, the network decided to permanently pull the plug on the series,
which MTV had renewed for a second season in February. The network says the special was shot before production had started on the show’s now-scrapped second season and has the blessing of Gandee’s parents. Buckwild: WV To NYC will feature a short tribute to Gandee, network sources say. MTV halted filming on Season 2 of the show called “the Jersey Shore Of Appalachia” on April 1 after Gandee’s body and two others were found dead in a car near Sissonville, WVa. Here’s the statement MTV released today: Read More »
MTV Cancels ‘Buckwild’; Production Shuttered On Season 2 Following Cast Member’s Death
MTV has decided not to resume production on Buckwild, a network source confirmed tonight. The final decision comes just more than a week after the sudden death of castmember Shain Gandee. Despite having enough footage for several new episodes, MTV … Read More »
UPDATE: ‘Buckwild’ Shuts Down Production In Wake Of Shain Gandee’s Death
UPDATE, 12:53 PM: Filming has been halted on the second season of MTV’s Buckwild today due to the death of the show’s Shain Gandee, a network spokesperson told me. MTV will not say if the production shutdown is permanent, nor is it clear whether the reality show will go forward or whether Gandee will be featured in upcoming episodes if Buckwild Season 2 does air. Gandee, who was found dead on Monday in West Virginia, was one of nine cast members on the hit show. MTV renewed Buckwild for a second season on February 6.
PREVIOUSLY, 10:45 AM: Buckwild’s Shain Gandee has died, MTV has confirmed, after sheriff’s deputies discovered the 21-year-old reality TV star and two others dead in a car today near Sissonville, WVa. He had not been seen since earlier in the weekend. “We are shocked and saddened by the terrible news about Shain Gandee, and those involved in this tragic incident. We are waiting for more information but at this time, our main concern is for the Gandee family and their friends. Our thoughts and prayers are with them. Shain had a magnetic personality, with a passion for life that touched everyone he met and we will miss him dearly,” the network said in a statement today. Read More »
MTV Sets ‘Awkward’ Return, Female Comedy Block
The expanded 20-episode third season of MTV‘s Awkward will launch on Tuesday, April 16, at 10 PM with an hour-long premiere (trailer below). The following week, Awkward will be joined by new series Girl Code, a spinoff of MTV2′s Guy Code, which will air in the … Read More »
Lauren Iungerich Exits Her MTV Comedy Pilot ‘Hot Mess’
EXCLUSIVE: In a major shakeup on MTV‘s comedy pilot Hot Mess, I have learned that the project’s creator/executive producer Lauren Iungerich has departed. “We mutually agreed to part ways on the Hot Mess pilot,” a rep for MTV said. The move comes as I hear Hot Mess tested very well and was heading into next week’s MTV screenings as a frontrunner for a series pickup. The pilot had already been exploring writer staffing in anticipation of a series order. I hear Iungerich recently made the difficult decision to leave the project she had worked on for several years for a combination of creative and personal reasons. She remains committed to her MTV series Awkward, which is currently filming its 20-epsode third season. Iungerich is Awkward’s creator/executive producer. Hot Mess was picked up to pilot by the previous MTV regime. The pilot was wrapping casting when Susanne Daniels in November was announced as new head of programming, replacing David Janollari. She was joined by ABC Family’s Mina Lefevre as SVP and Head of Scripted Programming at the end of January. I hear Daniels and Lefevre are high on Hot Mess, Read More »
‘Django Unchained’, ‘Ted’ Lead 2013 MTV Movie Award Nominations
Quentin Tarantino‘s Django Unchained and Seth MacFarlane’s Ted lead the 2013 MTV Movie Awards nominations with seven each. Silver Linings Playbook follows with six nods and the final installment in the Batman trilogy, The Dark Knight Rises, nabbed five. The Avengers, The Perks Of Being A Wallflower, Pitch Perfect and Skyfall all have four noms each. Rebel Wilson, nominated for Best Female Performance and Breakthrough Performance for her role as Fat Amy in Pitch Perfect, hosts the annual celebration of movies, actors and music. She’ll be joined by Will Ferrell, who’ll receive MTV’s inaugural Comedic Genius Award. The show airs live on MTV at 9 PM ET on Sunday, April 14. The complete list of nominees follows:
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Will Ferrell To Receive MTV Movie Awards’ Inaugural Comedic Genius Prize
MTV announced today that Will Ferrell will be the first-ever recipient of the Comedic Genius Award, created to honor an actor who has “provided a major influence through their work” and “transformed the … Read More »
MTV’s ‘Teen Wolf’ Third Season Premiere Set For June 3
MTV will debut the first half of its 24-episode third season of Teen Wolf on Monday, June 3 at 10 PM. Based on the 1985 movie about a high school student-turned-werewolf, Season 3 will feature new … Read More »
MTV To Bow Ke$ha Docu-Series April 23
Ke$ha: My Crazy Beautiful Life will bow Tuesday, April 23 at 11 PM, the network said this morning. The docu-series follows the pop singer as she navigates the madness and euphoria of her professional and personal life while recording a new album and traveling the globe. MTV has released a first look at the series, which was shot over the course of two years by her filmmaker-brother Lagan Sebert and filmmaker Steven Greenstreet. Check it out: Read More »
MTV Renews ‘Buckwild’ For Season 2
Well, that was no surprise. MTV said today that it has picked up raunchy freshman series Buckwild for a second season. The announcement comes just one day before Thursday’s season finale of the hit reality series about a group … Read More »
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