I love MTV shows.

I watched the Teen Mom reunion thing today with friends, and everyone was crying. I watched jersey shore with cousins, and everyone was laughing. the challeneges are always entertaining, the real world (sometimes), made, true life, if you really knew me all really make me think and question things.

I love MTV shows.

I watched the Teen Mom reunion thing today with friends, and everyone was crying. I watched jersey shore with cousins, and everyone was laughing. the challeneges are always entertaining, the real world (sometimes), made, true life, if you really knew me all really make me think and question things.

I agree with you on most points. I think Teen Mom is great, I was crying on the reunion also (except on the Amber parts. I do not feel sorry for her one bit & I think she needs to be put in a cage with some rabid bears where she belongs. Also I cannot stand Maci!).

I think Jersey Shore, Made, True life, & also World of Jenks are all good shows and I still tune into them. As for the Real World....ugh. I haven't been interested since the Denver season. The challenges are still fun though.

The Real World is very hit or miss.

DC was a solid season, but i wouldnt say it was great. However, Brooklyn is the best season they have done since the first 10, by far.

Cancun & New Orleans were trashy, but fun. And now its Back To Vegas....

Ugh back to Vegas...There are still so many major cities they haven't gone to, why are they doing repeats two seasons in a row.

<span style="font-size:120%;">MTV's "Jersey Shore" gets a ton of attention, and rightly so. It ended its second season as the network's highest-rated program ever among viewers 12-34.

But MTV is not reviving solely based on "Shore." Some of the credit also goes to its teen pregnancy franchise, which includes "16 and Pregnant" and the hugely successful spinoff "Teen Mom," which ended its second season last week.

"Teen Mom 2 Finale Special: Check Up With Dr. Drew" ranked third among adults 18-34 last week on basic cable, drawing 2.22 million viewers in its 10 p.m. Tuesday timeslot. It finished behind only the season finale of "Shore," which drew 3.33 million in the demo, and ESPN's "Monday Night Football," which averaged 2.7 million.

It did pretty well among adults 18-49, too, despite airing opposite TBS's coverage of game four of the American League Championship Series. "Mom" averaged 2.78 million viewers, ranking seventh on cable for the week.

"Teen Mom" essentially picks up where "16 and Pregnant" leaves off, as the self-explanatory title implies. MTV returned nine months later to shadow four of the girls who found themselves unexpectedly expecting in "Pregnant," and the results, just like the original show, aren't always pretty.

One mom struggles with her baby's increasingly deadbeat dad while starting a new relationship. Another puts her baby up for adoption.

Though their families are often there to support the teen moms, the reality series does not glamorize teen parenthood, and the hope is that this show will help keep teen pregnancy rates low after kids have seen the consequences firsthand.

Of course, the other effect of the show is that it has made tabloid princesses of these up till now anonymous girls, and whether that will help or hurt them as moms remains to be seen.

During just the past week, the tabs claimed that one girl was pregnant again, was involved in a domestic dispute and was dating a sex offender. There turned out to be just a kernel of truth to those allegations.

Media Life Magazine</span>

The Real World is very hit or miss.

DC was a solid season, but i wouldnt say it was great. However, Brooklyn is the best season they have done since the first 10, by far.

Cancun & New Orleans were trashy, but fun. And now its Back To Vegas....

Yeah, RW has sorta rebounded in the last year and a half or so. Brooklyn, DC, and NO were all fairly decent. Cancun, not so much.

I just wish they'd shock the f!ck out of everybody and have the new cast think they're headed out to a notorious party town only to have their little GPS system direct them straight to a farmhouse in the middle of nowhere. The "real world" consists of more than just big cities. Not everyone ends up in NYC or LA. Send 'em down da bayou.

Ugh back to Vegas...There are still so many major cities they haven't gone to, why are they doing repeats two seasons in a row.

It all has to do with permits, tax cuts, and filming spaces.

How is Skins different? Other than MTV "loudly" deciding to pretend gay men don't exist.

This version of Skins won't have any gay male characters? Hrmmm

I admit, I was a big fan of the UK show--first as a guilty pleasure, then I grew to honestly really love it, then the new cast came in and I was iffy again, but they won me over as well--though like many UK fans the utter slap in the face of this season's non ending kinda made me lose interest--for now (I have friends who went on big dramatic "never going to watch again" moments about it--I wouldn't go that far, but...) The thing with Skins is with each episode focvusing on different characters and often with different writers, the show lurched quite wildly in terms of style and quality week to week (I admit in many ways this is one of the best things about it). That said, I did have to quit thinking of the kids as "real" (I'm sorry--I know that high school students drink, do drugs, have sex, etc--trust me, I was one of them--but nothing to the extent shown in the show) and more as an extreme and slightly surreal take on teenagers.

Anyway, the UK producers have been trying their hardest online to keep fans from prematuraly bashing the remake. And to be fair, they're invested in this--it's not like when Russell Davies just sold away his Queer as Folk concept for a remake--some of the writers and I believe the production house are involved in the MTV version of Skins as well. And I appreciate from the ads that at least it's not a LOT more glossy the way US remakes invariably are...

But I kinda agree with fans that this doesn't show all that much promise--a simply changing the locale and accents won't necesarily work. Still--I suspect it'll be a hit for MTV, at least with viewer numbers and in the short run.

Oh yeah, she'll be turned for sure. If she's not of the Katy Perry variety, she'll be of the angry/bitchy/feminist/"She needs a good poke!" variety.

I loved a lot of the Maxxie/Tony story, especially the initial stuff. This scene was one of my favorites simply because it was so refreshing to see a young gay character stand up for his feelings in a way that wasn't heavy-handed or dripping with saccharine.

I also liked the stuff with him and Dale.

They kinda dropped the gun on Maxxie by Season 2 though he still had some good (but brief) stuff with his new bf, etc. Skins *is* style over substance, but at its best, the way some movies manage, the style became the substance and it could be oddly moving or powerful. I think it'll be hard to maintain that in the US even with some of the same creative team.

But hold on--so will this version recreate the characters and stories more or less of the first two seasons? Cuz I thought it was meant to be all different characters, the way the UK show is every two years anyway--and not simply what Queer as Folk did so badly--change some names but try to redo the same characters/stories.

*edit* nevermind, they're doing EXACTLY what they did with Queer as Folk's remake. Sigh.

"The first episode of the US series will mirror the first episode of the UK series, although it will deviate from the original plot in following episodes. The characters are also the same, although some names have been changed, such as Sid has been renamed Stanley and Cassie renamed Cadie. However the biggest change comes in the form of Tea, a lesbian cheerleader who replaces the UK character of Maxxie"

Edited October 28, 201015 yr by EricMontreal22

Maxxie is a girl on the US one, but i think she is bisexual and i also think there is another gay guy.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/mtvs-skins-benefitted-nets-biggest-58858