Let me begin by saying, this is one post I was born to write, not kidding. In all the years I've worked here at WBKR/WOMI, I've only met Jon Brennan once and it was in passing. I didn't have the chance to grill him on his time in Los Angeles on MTV's The Real World all the way back in 1993.
The Jersey Shore cast is officially gunning for TV’s Best Revivals. The whole gang of Snooki, Vinny, Ronnie, JWoww, Pauly, Deena and The Situation are headed to a Miami Family Vacation in the first-look reunion trailer, along with an April premiere.
It was just over a month ago we learned that MTV wanted to put the Fear Factor in today’s youth with a Ludacris twist, making millennials dunk their cell phones rather than play gross-out games. Now, the first trailer for the youth-oriented revival looks a lot like the old series, because who doesn’t love beds full of maggots?
Beavis and Butthead might have gotten a second shot at life on MTV, but in lieu of spinoff Daria ever coming back, co-creator Susie Lewis has the next best thing. See what Daria, Quinn, Jane and Trent all look like in 2017, as the 20th anniversary brings out new designs and a look at their lives.
The Scream franchise certainly lost its steam with a third film, so might the MTV series follow suit? After a super-sized Season 2, Scream is officially booked for another stab at Season 3, albeit with less episodes, and another showrunner shift. There’s always the Halloween special, whose trailer you can watch right now!
Sure, H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds got a pretty sleek update with Steven Spielberg and Tom Cruise back in 2005, but that was, like … 11 years ago, man. Sexy teens are today, and they need to fight aliens too. Thankfully, MTV has the answer.
I think by now people know I am a lifelong die-hard MTV fan. As a lover a both music AND television, MTV has always been a channel tailor-made for me even when their programming has NOTHING at all to do with music. So I was VERY excited to hear that on August 1st of this year that VH1 Classic was turning into MTV Classic. (I actually consider it more of a Pokemon Go-style evolution as opposed t